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Our easter dessert this year was very yummy and still there is some of it left for today and tomorrow! So being strengthend with food and the enthusiasm of what I have already accomplished this year, it is time to think about I want to craft during the remainder of this year.
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Politicians newly inaugurated often reflect upon their first 100 days of work which I think is a very good thing to do. So I will use the Easter holidays to reflect upon the first 111 days of 2019: Did I meet my self-set goals with my crafting?
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I had planned on making some new decorations for Easter but as my embroidery machine is still broke I had to take the decorations of last year:
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One resulution for this year was not to collect so many embroidery designs, to take only those that I really like and only if I have a concrete project idea. But to dismiss the collector’s passion is not so easy with the big range of offers and designers, especially as not only during the season and on Valentine’s day free designs are offered.
Continue reading “Freebie-Friday”When I was a teenager the grown-ups loved on the first of april to prank the children – parents, teachers and friends. As I grew older this habit wore off and I was happy, as I did not like these pranks. I had almost forgotten this tradition when I saw a prank today that made me laugh out loud.
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consists ore in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life, said Benjamin Franklin wisely in his time. And this is still true!
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Last week on Saturday I visited a workshop in a fabric shop quite spontaneously. There was introduced the patternsystem „Golden Cut“, that 1935 was invented by a German seamstress. It was promised, that with it everyone can make fitting pattern within 10 min. Could that be true?
Continue reading “Do you know Lutterloh?”
In order to give my shelvs in the sewing room a tidy appearance and to prevent them from being dusted, I had sewn a curtain. But after two years I do not like the pleaded look anymore. So when I saw the pretty shelf design fabric last October at the dutch fabric market, I knew that I wanted to replace my curtain with it.
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Today repairing things was the order of the day. First my husband came with a loose button of his jacket. Then my son came back from school and was sad, because a schoolmate had torn his comic apart. Children can be so mean.
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Last year I have sewn the Marie by pattydoo and added the sleeves of the Chloe, as I do not like sleeveless dresses on myself. That did work out though I was not perfectly satisfied with the sleeves. The are standing a little bit too high. Therefore I bought the new pattydoo pattern Eliza as soon as it came out last November, it is a Marie with sleeves.
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