KCW Winter 2014 - Jacob part 3

KCW is the perfect motivator to work double as hard, and today we made Elias smile! A happy boy thanks to this short version of THE Jacob pants.

Perfect fit at the backside.

Perfect fit at the front side.

And again made out of gorgeous ‘Chinese Blue’.

All pants, it looks like this:

The long green legs together with the short blue pants.

The long blue legs together with the short blue version.

Pattern: The third time in a row we use the Jacob pattern designed by Zonen09.

Fabric: The fluorescent piping was homemade from fluorescent trim (bought @ Vermiljoenshop).

KCW Winter 2014 - Jacob part 2

We finished the pants for Elias yesterday evening, and as soon as he saw the pants, he announced to be wearing short pants only!

It is true that Elias always leaves the house with short pants and Omar usually wears long ones, but I thought to be able to change this pattern by giving him his own long pants. I was wrong obviously!

Consequently we have a second pants for Omar (and we already started to cut and sew the short version Elias requested).

This time around the backside fits perfect without having to tighten the elastic excessively and there even is some room for growing.

The blue fabric was purchased in Shanghai, China (just like these gorgeous Chinese Blues). The fabric is supposedly hand dyed and had to be fixed before washing as the color runs. I was told that the fabric is about 50 years old. The sales lady –who looked double as old as the fabric- also explained me that it was made in her family business; but then my Chinese is quasi nihil so it is possible that I got that completely wrong!

The fabric smelled moist but after fixing and washing, she turned out to be really soft and so gorgeous!

I bought a full role but the role was not very long and on top of that only 45 cm wide. I will have to be make this fabric last a long way.

Pattern: Just like the pants posted yesterday this is a Jacob pants designed by Zonen09.

Fabric: The fluorescent piping was homemade from fluorescent trim (bought @ Vermiljoenshop) and some rope.

Pattern reinstatement

The pattern of this ugly duckling got reinstated by the latest version that we made.

The bag is made with Chinese Blue –hand dyed fabric I bought in Shanghai- the details are in red to contrast with the blue of the main fabric.

A little treasure I made for myself and in which I proudly sew my label.

The bag got finished just in time to take to Pune, India, where I, together with the other girls of the National Rugby Team will represent the United Arab Emirates at the Asian Championships.

The luggage is ready, I need another hour to study the National anthem and then we can take off to play against Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, and Iran.

Wish us good luck!

Welcome to the world

My eldest sister just gave birth to the youngest family addition. Another baby boy! So my parents have 9 grandsons and only 2 granddaughters.

His present has been laying around a couple of days as baby A is born some days late. We secretly wished for a girl but luckily did not choose girl fabric for his present!

We are unable to visit him right now, but the hospital is our first stopover when we get out of the airplane on Thursday morning! Nevertheless we can’t wait to reveal the present for you here and now, on the day he is born! I am sure my sister will not go online these first couple of days, so it will still be a present for them.

We made him a comfortable soft sleeping bag made in ‘Chinese Blue’ finished with red binding, so he can gently dream away the first months of his precious life.

See you on Thursday at the hospital dear baby boy!

Stof: mini shop in Shanghai, more specifically in Yuyuan Garden

Pattern: homemade - Curl Up

Elisanna reforms me

Although lately it seems to fly bags at our blog, I am not a real big fan of bags. I use the same handbag since three years. Nevertheless her blog slowly makes me change my mind. I think I do like bags, at least I like her bags!

We made a collection of bags to wrap gifts. 

Since a year, this Chinese fabric has been waiting for the perfect project. This bag is ideal for it.

The bags are not reversible as I did not find a matching fabric. The liner is made from off white Ikea cotton.

As I do have this fabric in several colors we created a bag in each of them.

Her patternand instructions are very user-friendly, even for beginners -at least if you understand Dutch.