I'll sew you

My first sewingproject of the year 2020 is finished and it’s a raglan sleeve sweater. The original pattern I’ve used is from KnipMode December 2013. Original, because I made quite some changes. In the picture below you can see the original linedrawing of this pattern. See those curved seams? The front and back bodypiece do have this curved seamline (second picture), but the sleeves do not. They're straight at that point. Anyone who has been sewing for a while knows that when you sew a curved and a straight seam together, you create depth. The fabric is no longer laying flat. And that’s exactly what happened when I made this sweater some years ago. Front and back, left and right. I remember I took some time trying to fix it but for some reason I never really succeeded, so that sweater ended up never being worn. Last year I wanted to give it another go and I smoothed out the line of the front and back bodypiece. That did the trick, as was to be expected. No stran

Happy 2020 everyone! What better time to show my face than at the start of the new year, right? And a polished face that is. After many years of using a black themed blog, I decided it was time to change it to a more fresh-coloured one. The colours I've chosen remind me of spring, which is better than the dreary, rainy, non-wintery weather we're heaving right now in the Netherlands. After a hiatus of 1,5 year, what are my plans for this blog? Well, I can tell you that I would love to write a post every week, but that's a promise that might be hard to live up to. So, no promises. Let's just see how this evolves. One thing I will do is write down ideas for posts and split them up a bit more. No need to cram everything in one post. I also would love to share more of my daily activities. Not just the sewing stuff. And last but not least: I really want to improve the quality of my pictures.  As always the lack of posts was not due to the fact that there was no sew