A productive crafter

I am so lucky, because I can do what ever I want when ever I want.

...and I have always loved  to make something, it could be baking buns for breakfast, a very unhealthy cake with load of whipped cream...haha... or just a nice meal.

....oh yes, and my crafts.... I don't think I could live without my sewing machines, my knitting and crochet needles and all the other stuff I have, such as buttons, thread, stickers, laces, zippers and so on....
...and another thing...
 I put up photos on Facebook on my site called  VibbesWorld, and the best part of that is, that people send me photos, asking if I can make this or that.... and I I love a challenge (and I easily get bored, if it is the same thing I will have to do over and over - all though I made a blanket of grannysquares once...long time ago.....)
I just delivered at special hat to a friend yesterday. He sent me this photo of a Scottish Tam and "accidently" I had some nice wool from the Faroe Islands at my storage in the attic, so I started at once:

This was the photo I got from him, and I found the pattern on the net, my luck I can read the english patterns, though I am Danish!

The yarn was as thin as sewing thread, so I knitted with  5, and it was tangling all up, during, until I found a way to separate them by putting each skein in a bowl. The result looked like this.......but

It wasn't quite finished yet. I had to felt it. It is not that easy to see the actual fabric/material on the photo but this was the reason. First knit, then felt.

I did that by hand in almost boiling water and soap and lots of hard rubbing!!!!!!

At the end I threw it into the washing machine to make it felt into the measurements iI wanted.

And here you have the result... I delivered it yesterday, and I can tell you it looked great on the happy recipient.

Now the next projects are waiting:

A cardigan, kitchen cloths, which I always bring in my handbag, and a Mermaid throw for a 7 year old

and I have  also cut out fabric for 3 t shirts and 3 shirts for my son

You see, I am never bored.... take care until next time.....

Coated snap locks

Sometimes you really want to make something perfect, and today I have finished a jacket/frock coat.
For some time I have been lacking something to wear over my longer tops/ short dresses, so when I got lucky and found some really cheap fabric with  the right texture I went looking for a pattern in my large collection of BURDA magazines.
This is the result, and I even made the lining with the most lively fabric brought home from Malaysia last Summer.... and  the total price for it all, inclusive the rather expensive snap locks, that I , according to the pattern,  were going to use for the front.....is.... 150 DKK/ 28 USD.....

 

I started making my own clothes at the age of 13, and had a dream of becoming a designer of clothes.Then in the 9th grade I was able to work for a week in a professional sewing shop in Copenhagen. That was a really interesting experience, I was impressed when I saw they coated the snaplocks, in order to make them almost invisible!!.....a bit crazy in my oppinion at that time, but exactly today I was happy I remembered the process.

The snaps I had bought were big and shiny, and would definitely not be looking good on the coat as they were... and I have really been doing my best ... even sewn a lot by hand on the project.
I decided to coat them like this:

First I cut 2 circles of fabric a bit bigger, that the snaps

Then I basted all the way around the edge

Pulled the thread together and sewed over the wrinkled edges on the backside after making a small hole for the nob and hole in front of the snap

Can't you clearly see the difference?

This is how it looks on the jacket

...and on the front side I just attached a button to make it look finished