Nýtt æði - new craze

Made this lego-animation with Mani today.

 

New dress

I desperately needed a new dress, there are so many birthdays and parties coming up. Only tomorrow we are going to one birthday at lunchtime, a graduation in the afternoon and a grand dinner/ dance in the evening. There was nothing for it, I had to sew a dress. I took out a stash of fabrics: Black cotton corduroy (not really suitable for a fine dinner). Gingham cotton (not so sure), silver striped organza, teal crepe, white silk crepe, and a light teal lace.



In the end I chose the silver striped organza and decided to line it with the white silk crepe. My grandfather gave me that crepe for my wedding dress but I didn't use it then (I went for a light cream silk dupioni). I really wanted to use it for a nice dress and now is my chance.

It was a bit fiddly to work with these two slippery fabrics together but it worked out really well in the end and I am very happy with the result.

Baby collar

This is an old fashioned baby collar made for me when I was a baby by my great aunt. I think it is really cute and I try to get my one year old to wear it all the time (she's not equally impressed).



I thought I would also be cute on a grownup so I decided to try to copy it in adult size. So I started...



... and finally finished....and gave it to my sister.



I think it turned out really nice. It was really easy so I might write up the pattern one day.

Tulips

I took a couple of photos of the tulips in my house this morning using the camera on my mobile.

Black apple doll

Today I made this doll. I followed the pattern and the really good instructions given by Emily. Instead of drawing on the closed eyes I sewed on eyes with black thread. It changes the expression of the doll quite a lot but I really like it.