Autumn update

Hi,

I've been a sewing enthusiastic these past couple of months, even so that my sewing machine got overheated (?) and started to jump stitches. I took it to repair and the mechanic couldn't find anything.

Then of course I had to make a couple of dresses more, the blue one is a mockup for the Marimekko-fabric one. I finally found a good pattern that I really liked, but still I ended up modifying it a lot. I love shirt-dresses, I really do.
But buttons and especially buttonholes are a pain in the neck. These two dresses don't have those yet, I'm waiting for my buttons to arrive. I spent hours trying to find 12,5mm metallic 4-hole buttons and now I'm waiting those to be delivered to me. Hopefully I get the this week, I've had these two dresses hanging in my closet for weeks now.

I just love this Mini-Unikko print, it is just soooooo pretty. I've had that fabric in my stash for over a year and I'm so excited to share the pictures from the final dress after getting the buttons sewn to the dress.

I also decided to use my cotton jersey stash tha thas been growing almost uncontrollably these past years.

I really love that hedgehog fabric, I made a mashup of a shirt and dress patterns and that polkadot jacket pattern is from an old magazine.

I didn't have patience to wait for my sewing machine, so I decided to use my old one. It wasn't so good on jersey, but I still did the dress with it. I'm not satisfied with the trimming of that neckline at all. It is all floppy and doesn't look nice at all. Probably some handsticthing could save it I guess.

But for the jacket I learnt from that mistake and the result is so much better :) The jacket is still missing (surprise) buttons, I bought some metallic snap buttons that I'm going to use.

 Both of these jersey are quite good quality, so I hope these clothes last in use for more than three washings. I really don't like, when I buy jersey clothes and after a wash look like they have been in use for two years.

I had to make small clothes, because I had ½ meters each. I think I have fabric enough for a baby hat still.
By the way, that knitting project is going to be a koala (hopefully). He just wanted to be in the picture with the hedgehogs.

 My sister was on a weekend vacation to eastern Finland and she found on sale Marimekko fabrics and she bought me two of the.
One is a discontinued Unikko-fabric and the blue one is a fabric called Sulhaspoika. Both are cotton fabrics ans the colours are super nice. Guess who is going to sew more dresses in the future? Maybe I should sell my old ones in a second-hand shop, because my wardrobe is getting too small.

Also visiting my mother-in-law has proven to be quite dangerous for my sewing stash and supplies, because she lives quite near a good store that I visit too often (I'm glad that store doesn't have sale of old colourful buttons, that would be too bad...)

This time I ended up leaving with fabric markers that weren't cheap. Ok, these markers are Japanese and I think will be good quality ones. Now I just need to figure out where to use them