Summer Sewing #3

Surprisingly enough our eldest wanted something the little one got! Usually it is the other way around.

She choose the fabric she liked in a Belgian online shop (I forgot @ which one we found it). I did not bother too much about the details mentioned in the pattern, the waistband was a simple contrasting line of elastic fabric instead of a tunnel with a rope.

Fast but beautiful and easy we used elastic binding to finish all openings. It was the first time ever I used elastic binding and I have to admit easy and clean!

According to our fashionista the back side should have been the front so we made a note for next time!

When clothes fit well our children have the urge to proof it by means of gymnastics skills.

So here we go again. This time showing off aerial and back somersault.

Pattern: Knippie, nr3 year 2015

Forgotten Jewels #6

I already wrote about THE rugby event of the year in Dubai; although I failed to inform you that there was some kind of a garment-making-bet related to the rugby 7s this year.

After I saw the gorgeous jumpsuits my teammates purchased to support their favorite rugby nations, I got slightly jealous about the fact there were no available jumpsuits for Belgium supporters! Off course not! So I told them I would make one that would make them all jealous about not being Belgium supporters.

The creation already took shape in my mind but the actual production only happened very last minute. So there was no time left for a photo shoot.

This weekend when we went on a short family trip to the desert I decided it was time to reveal to you my Belgian jumpsuit.

Belgium above all!

Walloon Rooster on one side.

Flemish Lion on the other side.

Luckily nobody really knows about the community question in Belgium so I got no remarks or questions rand the Belgian Rugby players were just happy somebody clearly choose their side!

The fabric was purchased at Bengali Market in Ajman; it is always a pleasure to purchase 2 meter of fabric at 0.6€ /meter. The fabric needs a good wash before use but regardless of that is of superb quality.

The desert is an ideal spot to act silly and have great fun.

… and gives lovely family pictures.

Somebody send me this picture of the jumpsuit –and me- during the Dubai rugby 7s 2014, not the best pose, but the prove I really wore it during the event.

You can read more about what I did day two of this weekend on her blog:

http://celebrationoflife.org/news/celebrate-life-at-the-wadi-bih-run/

Great article for all runners among you, a running team-relay of 72 kilometers, 1000 altitude meters up and down.

Wadi Bih, the run of a lifetime.

More gifts for the cousins

The middle son of my eldest sister is only a couple of months younger than our youngest. Felix has outgrown these onesies already, so Felix as well as Cousin L got a jumpsuit as Christmas present.

Felix refuses point-black to wear homemade clothes when they are just finished, I have to hang them in his wardrobe first and then he might want to try them on.

So just like here, his sister got involved to show the new onesies. 

Her arms and legs are somewhat to long for her 2.5 year younger brother his clothes but we just managed to get her dressed.

Our children are incapable to pose in a normal way for a picture, they always have to overact and nowadays for Jade that means doing handstands or bridge.

Felix got a jumpsuit in blue dragon fabric and one in red ‘firefighter’ fabric.

All of a sudden Felix realized how much fun his sister was having in front of the camera. Jealous of the attention she got, he started to showcase his own gymnastics moves.

And he had no more objections in wearing the onesie for his cousin.

Keep practising for straddle and bridge darling!

Pattern: The pattern is the same as here, we made it a little bigger/longer then last time and the finishing of the sleeves is according to the method described in Kiind Magazine.

Fabric: The fire fighter fabric was bought @ Fatima in Ghent, the dragons where purchased online (if I remember well that was @ Bambiblauw) and the red ‘Funky Frames’ fabric was bought @Michas Stoffecke.