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Casual sewing

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This is the picture of my 'hoodie'. (KnipMode 2010-08 / 19b - linedrawing in my previous post). I already finished sewing it more than a week ago and even wore it in the weekend. It's great and I love it. Putting it together was very easy. The one thing I changed from the original pattern was using a facing in the back of the neck. I think I'll have to pay the fabricshop another visit and buy the same fabric but in a different colour. It was great to work with and it's just thick enough to wear as a cover-up. I'd even consider to sew this pattern again. If I do I will make the sleeves a bit longer though. The hood is finished with a double-folded seam and is attached between the front and the neck-facing. The buttons are quite.....euhmm..different but I like them very much. The hood itself is not too big and actually is there just for the fun of it. I don't see me wearing it in real life... There's no close-up picture but you see a white

New fabric, new project, and a bit of 'What the ***!?!'

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First of all, thank you everyone who left a comment on my latest post. As always I'm very grateful for the fact that people (you!) take the time to read my blog and even react on it. And a big thank you to Hilde for offering to use her scans of KnipMode via 4Shared. That's gonna save me a lot of time! And now, as promised I want to show you my newly bought pieces of fabric. Only 3. I'm not a hoarder and am trying to go back to my initial way of working, which is choosing a project and thèn buy fabric. Not the other way around. This just works best for me. I am in love with all three of them (heart jumps happily up and down in chest..) The baby-bleu on the left is a fleece with a very soft inside. The stripes are a polyester-viscose jersey. This colourcombination is actually quite a bit out of my comfortzone, but I chose this fabric just for that reason. Gotta try something new once in a while. The most beautiful is the cobalt blue. It's a cotton with stretc