The materials.
The shape of the old one.
Iron on seam tape on the raincoat fabric.
Rain cover to my 2 backpacker.
Category: Creative
Looking for a bikini – found 2 top’s to sew & celebrating my driving licence with a friend.
I was looking for a new bikini but didn’t find any good colour or size but I did found 2 top’s on sale 🤩. In perfect colour! And what did I think? Well, I can use those 2 top’s to sew my bikini 🤩🤩.
After this bargain on sale, I met a friend and celebrated with a dessert (read about it in the post’s Driving Licence part 1 – 7) down in the city.
And after that I bought a whole watermelon 🤩🤩, got home sewed a bit and while doing that a friend from my house church came by with a flower as a congratulations greeting
The re-design of the bead-dress (2023-2024), part one.
I got this dress after some of my old colleagues, last years work place (Bore school) when they had a ‘Change your wardrobe Day with clothes you don’t want but maybe your colleague like’
I took it out of my sewing project box yesterday (1st of January 24) to get some ideas of what kind of fabric could work on it.
And they both could work for sure! But it was not what I wanted. I wanted something more fun & crazy like me 😆😆.
And today (second of January) I went to my favorite fabric store to buy new needles 📍 and there it was! The cool fabric 🤩🤩🤩 and enough (2,8 meters) and on sale 🤩🤩🤩.
This will be so fun! I will do it so asymetric as possible. Orange and black is perfect! Playful, crazy and fun!
I bought this fabric in January and still in June haven’t I found the pattern I want 😔🤪 for this dress. I will use the undergown (the inside dress) because it fit’s me.
March 2nd 24 a good mix of needling fabric, walking to & back from the grocery store and gardening 💪💪.
This once was a shirt now I hope this will work.
I will have a small break, need to go (as in walk) to the grocery store before I can start to sew. I hope it works as I wish 🤞🤞🤞.
✔️ my back did good on my walk home with a heavy backpack (approxy 8-10kilogram)
and some extra energy in my body I did some gardening
Was out for 1 hour and 20 minutes 💪💪💪🥵😊. In the couch, where I’m now resting mostly the back, so ready for a shower and dinner. But dinner has to wait because I need to make it before I eat it…
Parallel sewing projects, is the way my brain works best.
Therefore have I started two new projects so my brain has something to work with while I am trying to finish the jogging pants, when my back isn’t to painful.
I have also been creative with metal thread 😉 the past few evenings because of pain in my back 😒.
G-clef and notes made by metallic thread.
While I have taking a small break from the jogging pants.
I have to figure some parts out to finish the pants and until I got that I do other things 😉. I am the kind of person that can’t watch telly without things in my hands.
What I mostly do.
3rd upcycling skirt finished.
Her will I give you some pictures from parts of the process of my 3rd #jeansskirt I’ve done.
This Jeans skirt took much longer time to sew then most other cloths I’ve done. Mainly because of my injuries in my coxxy last January. When it’s painful to sit for longer periods it’s hard to finish a project. But thanks to my seat-pillow (my xmas gift to myself) I have been able to sew so much more lately 😍😍. So now it’s the next project. Jogging pants made by sweaters “hoodies”.
Home and sick when it’s finally the Autumn Break but being thankful for what the Lord given me instead.
Isn’t it tipical that when you finally have the opportunity to make extra money, to get a cold with fever 🤪🤧!! Well that’s life right now for me. I managed to get a bit cold on my back on Wednesday this week and I also forgot to take my D-vitamin 😔.
And here I am. Home with the cold and fever. When I get a cold I get the fever in about 24 hours, and the shit stay longer in my body then all the other symptoms. 😔😔. I have past having sore throat and when it’s hurtful to talk. I am in the stage of sneezing and chouching and I am on day 4 today with this cold.
Yesterday Saturday I forced myself to the nearest grocery store to buy 🍯 Honney and the most nessesary of food. The walk to the grocery store was fine but in the store I started to sweat 🥵🥵🥵 due to a lot of wool on and the walk home got even werse 😆😆. I felt like I was melting away 😆😆 and zero energy. I spend the rest of the day in my couch watching internet-TV.
Why am I sharing this now you think? Well my wish for this weekend was to relax, explore my new neighbourhood and go to Church. That didn’t happend 😔. The next wish I had was to be able to work extra – that will not happend with fever in my body 😔. I might be able to visit a friend and be a bit crafty with her and her two young adults/teenagers.
I think the Lord want me to enjoy life as it comes even if that includes a cold. He has given me this wonderful apartment to rent, to enjoy life in, to relax in, to do want I have been wishing for outdoors for two years and a cold will not stop me live, it will only put things on hold. Something I have to accept and try to enjoy my best of.
I did, I was a bit creative both Friday and Saturday in the couch 🙂 . I used yarn to sew those pieces together by hand.
On Friday I found my “poncho” I started on last year, where I never figured out how to fix the arms. So on Friday I thought okay, let’s just re-design this to something I actually can use. So I am now ripping the small squares apart from each other and sewing by hand, them on to the bigger pieces of the blancet 🙂🧶. Actually very nice and easy thing to to while I am doing my best to get well soon.
A mix of the latest pattern I’ve done, July23.
I have more energy after approxy 6pm mostly and therefor I’ll start with my projects later in a Day. For the last day’s I’ve started on “finding the right pattern”. You who sew probobly understand what I mean. For the rest of you, when you buy an old pattern you get a sheet of all the different parts in one sheet and then the challenge is to find all the parts. You’ll see in the end of this blog what I mean.
The first pattern here is; Linen pants in sand color.
I measuredd my waist, cut a 10cm wide waist, fold it and sewed it and then I thought how cool it would be to sew a more fancy fabric on the inside. Both for fun and for comfty.
I thought the same thing for the pockets.
So I will sew pants in linen in my lenght 🤩. My legs are tall, cause I am 6″2’1 or 189cm. (My torso is quite tall to for my hight, which will be interesting when I start to sew more fitable dresses ^^haha^^.) My innerseam on pants are 91cm or 35 ⁵³/₆₄ inch = tall woman ;-). I got a par of linen pants years ago but they ar ea bit wide in the waist… and this summer I got linen fabric from a girlfriend and yes there we are. 🙂
The 2nd pattern & the 2nd dress here is: “fancy dress” the white curtain.
Sketching, drawing and just relaxing my brain.
This last week I have spend more time with my sketch pad then on social media :-). It helps a lot for my brain in those day’s when work hasn’t been the best place to be. To not focus on anything and just sketch whatever comes to mind – wow what a relife feeling! It’s been dresses and shoe designs lately. And here is a taste of what I’ve done. Hope you enjoy it.
Every sketch is in color but you’ll just get one. Mostly cause I don’t want to spoil to much. Hope you’ll understan. 😉
“Why not just move the shelf?”
Then I thought “why not move the shelf” from the livingroom (where it anyway just was filled up with things) to the sewing room where I can use it for a purpose of sewing stuff?!? So I did! 😍
My sewing ✂️📍room is taking the form and with the colours I want. It is still some storage I need and shelfs on the wall or floor-storage. I need to buy colour 🟠🧊🖌🎨 and it all will take time – becauce it needs to feel right. And I am not in stress, and I don’t like to rush and I’m not rich. And this is my project right now & to make sure I have fun while doing it.
[The best time for me to write in this blog is whole I am listening to a preaching from Elevaton Church online.]
This room will have a wibe of orange & turquoise 🤩 the colours that have become two motiovation colours for me to be even more Creative.
Project December 22.
I finally found the old doors I have dreamed about for years, this December.
I can now finally sew. 😍😍🧵📍✂️
Sewing, sustainability, Creative brain.
A small break from headache and I have been creative 😊🧵📍📍📍📍📍✂️📍📍📍
This skirt is made out of fourteen par of old jeans. #sustainability #upcycling I’ve got from a friend outside Oslo.
A sewing project that started in January 2021, had a resting break on eight months before new ideas needed to be tryed out.
I am hoping I am on the end now, March 2022. It all is a combination of a good body, a good day and energy 😉.
One of few things to add now is a zipper and a waist… one or two pockets in the front.
And I’m done 🤩. I do know it will take some time, spmething I have lots of. In the mean time I’ll start on something else as always. If I don’t have more than few projects going on my brain works slower. I need few projects parallell with each other its just a fact of trying to just have one, which I didn’t finished until I started on nuber two 😆😆.
Creative and efficion Easter.
For you who don’t following me on Instagram only here.
As you know I am creative. This Easter I had a goal, to finish some of my sewing projects. Which I now have. 😊😊😊.
The red blouse with dots after a friend.
The black skirt after my mom.
The navy summer dress with pattern.
The second summer dress after my mom. The dress I remember her in, when I was a teenager.
Two or three sewing projects to spend time on, but those can take time. Or I need time on them before I know how I want them to end 😉.
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Be Creative, use YOUR gift.
You can be creative in all different ways. I am most practical creative when I sew or knitt but I am also creative when I write. I love to sew becauce than I can redesign what I had into something I know I actually will use, put on and be proud of.
This was a par of pants my mom loved when I was a teenager (!) Which is a long time ago. No I made a simple skirt of them. High waist, not my favorite but I’ll get used to it.
I am also creative when I knitt. This picture gonna be a sweater….
…when I have gotten my new circular needles I can continue. 😊
My next project to finish, which I started on last fall/ Autumn is also a skirt. This skirt has also been a par of pants/Jeans. Which I bought in the late teens (!) Been using the a lot and therefor is the cotton fabric very thin.
How you are creative is important for you. God has given you a gift of how to express yourself! What it is, I don’t know. But remember to let God guide you in your creative zone. It can be an instrument you play or that you take good photos or maybe you are a writer, a baker, a singer. Whatever it is, He gave it to you! Becauce He knows how to use you and your gift! He knows how important this gift is for you and me. To express something and maybe even touch other people with what you do! 😊
So go out and explore your gifts with the Lord and create something new. Make sure you have fun while you doing it.
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Details.
My life gets better with details specially when it comes to something I make. Just like God is all about details in our lifes.
I ordered a new year diary, a calender for this year. I ordered a blue and recieve a pink. I dislike pink.
I had a saying many years; “Nothing that is pink will get into my house. Mostly because I hate/dislike that colour. I have never liked it. It doesn’t fit me.” But as the years went by I have realized that, sometimes I will get it into my house rather I like it or not. Then it’s up to me to change the details if I can.
Yesterday I placed my sewingmachine on a table, found a fabric I like and started to sew.
This is a bad picture (above) I know. I took it for a reason. To show you how the details are importent. You can if you look closely see the details. How we are the mirrow of our faith or how blurry we might be infront of Dad. !But Dad can show us our details in our lifes if we want that.
The old cover is pink and made off a soft material quite easy to sew fabric on. 😊
Above here, you see the contrast between my fabric and the soft plastic-silicon material.
And under … You see my first round of sewing…
…a straight line and realizing that wouldn’t hold so I had to use zick-zack. Above is the inside belove is the outside.
This pattern is so me I don’t just like the pattern in this fabric I like the color combination and the fact that it is nature-friendly and eco-friendly.
The material is linen. 😍😍
I like to think that Dad made us in a “good material” so He can help us to use the material/fabric that fits whatever weather we have around us. To help us find the details He wants to give us.
Is it a sewingmachine to everyone? Probably not.
But we have and can find knowledge and inspiration for our lifes when we are with Him. We just need to ask for help and guideness toward where He wants us or ask Him for those details He has for us.
Dad has given me lots of creativity and I love it. Even on a “bad body day” can I be creative. I can write about it like I do now, I can find inspiration and keep it in my scrapbook. On a “good body day” I sew. 😍
If you want inspiration ask Dad for it. Ask Him for your details.
It can be things you already know but maybe got forgotten or things you are waiting on. Have patience and trust Him WHO are guiding your life.
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Creative infront of the television
Reparing knitted socks infront of whats on Eurosport ☺
This is me when I relax infront of the TV with a good game of Ice-Hockey or some down hill – Alpin sport 😊
I manage to fix many socks if it’s a lot of good sports ob the television like Saturdays most are.
Something my dear Mom learn me a long time ago. ❤
And here is the result of one sock 😉
So it’s not just sewing that is relaxing! But that too…
Here is my “table” which actully is my floor. It is easier to work on the floor even if my cat boy Silver likes to come and sit on the fabric…
Here I am needling up wher to sew. Following the stripes so the jeansfabric don’t make “bobles” under.
It’s gonna be a bag for a blow-up-bed so you easy can carrie it with you.
Work in process…
New apartment – New projects.
New apartment – New projects.
Since I moved in in my new apartment have I collected the kind of furniture’s I want to use, re-paint and just fix. I have decided to keep my interior in four colors. Brown, Purple, Turquoise and Black mostly because I have white walls and want to have warm colors.
So when I moved in I placed an old couch which is brown in the living-room-corner I made, and started to paint my dining-table chairs… I wanted a contrast to the white table and the white walls. I tried on one chair and liked it, so now I on the finish-line of purple chairs.
From my old apartment I had three pallet’s outside which I now using as a couch-table and they are also painted purple to match the chairs. One of the pallet was black last year (outside) the second pallet I had pinned a red plastic carpet, for protection of the rain, this I ripped off.
Both pallets are now purple, the next step is to buy roller wheels to get up the table a bit, and to vacuum the easier underneath. And I have turquoise cushions, a good harmony.
Next step in this projects is to sew cushion covers in turquoise, black and purple so everything is matching. It’s okay for me to have various shades of a color. Get some green plants and paint the picture-frames I have. This project will not end today or next week, no this is something that will take some time as for most people, when you get settle in take some time. I guess I’ll might change some of the lights just so it fits the rest.
I saw a TV program few days ago where the interior guy said, a good thing to remember when you want to decorate your home is «1 form and different colors or 1 color and different forms» of the objects that will help the eye to see the total as one thing. And he is right. It is harder to see what is in the room when it to many colors and forms of the objects, you kind of get dizzy in your head, but if you get in to a room with matching forms or colors your head see «one thing» and your brain tells you «I like this» or «it’s harmony». It is so many homes where when you step inside just want to step out again as soon as possible just because of it is no sync.
Details….
One area at the time. Living-room and dining area now, hobby-room and bed area later. I guess it’s who I am…I like to fix and get it comfort and in one style to love it more and it is probably also because this is in my interest color and interior, furniture and make it «cozy at home» and a welcoming feeling for others.
So I’ll try to coop with this idea. But my home will have «bohemian style».
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My 2015.
Yesterday was it the 28th of December and here in Norway that’s apart of what they call «romjula» it’s the days after Christmas and before New Years-eve. And for me have those days in the between been days of «getting out in the snow and play» or if it was a bad winter stay inside and play with puzzle since I was a child but as an adult it’s most become «the traveling back to home time» from wherever I have been for Christmas. But this Christmas and all days of December I have been in Oslo, the city I live in. Different but very okay. I have had more then just interesting days! I have had an experience I did not see would come. A positive experience!
I have had time with just myself, do just what I wanted or not wanted to do. It has been a very relaxing Christmas. And we got snow on the 27th of December – Yay!!
Yesterday was one of those slow days with a surprising cool thing. I went on Facebook just to check one thing and there one of my friends that lives in the state right now, was awake and on her way for work. And she said that the girls would be up at 5:45 am (9 hours behind us in Norway), and that she had told them that also meet her in the kitchen for early breakfast which for me meant Skype time with all three of them. Happy happy happy feeling. Most because I have not really heard much from the other two in a while. It was a good ending of Christmas for me! It is always nice to have the opportunity to catch up with friends especially over Skype when the friends does not live in the same country as I am living in!
The next thing I was doing was one of those things I have done for the last few years in the end of the old year and before the new starts, to write down Goals and Dreams for the year ahead. It is not a necessary to follow it but I am aloud do add things if I am in a situation that reminds me of a dream or goal. And one of my goals is exercising, to do it twice a week and get my body on an other level, get stronger physical and be able to stand against sickness more. And one of my dreams are to be able to travel more.
When I woke up today (not early morning) the snow was and is still here. The light from the snow is indescribable. It means so much for me to have snow during the winter, not just because I “always had it as young” no more because it lighten everything up it does get light with snow because it reflect the little daylight we have this time of the year, which is not much. And something else that reflect is our life, how we live it, how and what we show others. If you and I respect each and other and what’s going on in our life’s it will reflect to those we meet every day. It is the same with family, friends, cow-workers and people we just meet randomly in life. How do you want to your life to reflect on the ones you meet?
To respect a person for what’s going on in the persons life is so important but, yes it is a but here, but if you do not respect a person how will that person be able to respect you? I have been in a situation for some years where some of my family do not respect me in the way of the I am still single, that I have not met someone to share my life with. Those in my family “have been nagging” about “I should get married” like it is the easiest thing in the world… or “have you met someone yet?” like when is it there business? I respect them – those in my family – for what ever they do why can not they do the same for me?
This year that is nearly over… It is only two days left today. As an adult the days runs over to the next fast and if it is December today and January in two days is not the biggest different for me as it was when I was a child. It was such a bigger different then when I was a child. When did that disappeared? 2015 has been an interesting year in many ways. I have learn to be more patient in areas I did not have and I have learn new things from the course I started in sept-14 and ended this summer. I have got new friends, been there for friends that needed me in an other way then the years behind me. My faith has made me stronger. I have had fights I did not wanted but that I can see was good to have. I have learn that distance to my mom and her sickness has not made me weaker but stronger. I have learned to deal with things I did not know how to deal with it. I feel I have grown this year in knowledge, as a person, as a friend and with God in my faith.
I have had time to be creative in the way I needed to be. I have learned to sew after cloth pattern something I never done before. I have had costumers and still have two left that will slide over to the next year. And I will end this year with some sewing and be with friends. And I am looking forward for what next year has to come with! I am curious about next year!
I am thankful for this year.
I am thankful for my friends and my Church.
I am thankful for where I live and where I am gonna move.
I am thankful for life what ever it is giving me.
….here is a mix of picture from this year….
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Creative December part 1.
Its been pasting few weeks since last time I wrote here on my blog just because I have been creative. And I have also been on a trip to my mom which took a bit of my blogging-time. We celebrated her on her 75th Birthday. So time has just fly by..
So today I am gonna give you the taste of what I have made so far in December this year. It will be mainly pictures of how I made the Christmas decorations out of things I had home and how easy it can be. I hope you like it. It will hopefully come more from the rest of December that is left.
So enjoy!
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