September

Although it is difficult to believe - it is actually september.

Last pair of summer trousers are ready - a bit late but the fabric is pretty heavy so this will work during autumn as well.

Since September will be pretty busy on the weekends the fabric has already been prepared:
One pair of trousers

One skirt

And one skirt that should become a dress, with black jersey fabric for the top.

In between it is time for two city trips...will come back to that.
This should keep me busy!

We are getting there

Always forget how hot it can be in July / August in Switzerland...

When this happens

There is usually no other place to spend time than here

In the company of these friends, who will hopefully change colour soon

 and something like this. 

                                         The sewing room is way too hot on most days 

but I did actually finish off these ones!

Have started to look at fabric for the colder season coming up, but first I have to do something about this fabric, since I did get it from my mother -in -law - and it will look great as a tunic with white trousers.

 As for this one - it will probably be hanging there until next summer......

Making a skirt out of a shirt

My partner had a very nice shirt, but one day he discovered a stain on it...which could not be removed by washing it. 

So, what is a girl to do? 
Why not make a skirt out of it? 
Said and done - work started, which meant all pieces were taken apart. 

After that two pieces were cut out for the skirt.














The top 12 cm were prepared to make it possible just to sew down the top 6 cm, without making an extra waist band. The buttons/buttonholes were left intact.

The last thing I did was to cover the stain - the reason why all this happened in the first place - by moving the pocket a bit. 

Think it worked out really well!

My grandmother's sewing table

When I visited Sweden this summer I took the opportunity to bring back with me my grandmother's old sewing table. 

On the inside of it it says "Sonja 1937", Sonja being by grandmother and 1937 the year when she got it. She was then 24 years old and married since one year. 

Before she married she had been working as a seamstress in Stockholm, and although she moved away from Stockholm she continued to make clothes her whole life, also inspiring me to start doing this.

The sewing table has not been touched since her death, everything in there is left as it were, even material for bobbin lacemaking - see video.