Karin makes a sleeping bag case

I made this the other day because I gave my sleeping bag case away to a guy in Copenhagen since he needed it more than I did. Also I like this new one a lot better since it's easier to carry it around with a larger handle. And it's prettier. Sadly my sleeping bag itself is really ugly so now I'm thinking I will need to decorate it somehow to match the case. The fabric is as always thrifted...

Ps! Our friend Pierre will guest blog for us a little bit this week! He has a lot of creative projects going on. And Åsa has finally graduated from bagery school and will be a little less busy perhaps. I have a week of intense studying ahead and then I will have summer off and start sewing clothes for my site again!

Karin & Frej making a banner

I stole this one above from Yelah.net

Frej and I sewed and embroided a banner (all from vintage fabric & thread) and went to Copenhagen to demonstrate against the meeting at Bella Center.

Karin - dress made at the craft circle yesterday

I made a long vintage gown that Mattias gave me in to a short coctail dress with a detatchable over skirt that you can wear separately. I took the bust decoration away and used it for the wide waist of the over skirt, cut the gown in half and used the bottom part for the over skirt, then I just hemmed the remaining dress part. It's really easy to do. (I know the hem needs to be ironed but I can't do that today so I just took a picture anyway)

Karin finally finished that dress.

I finally took the time to finish the dress I made from the cut off skirt Mattias gave me! I cut the skirt up to get rid of some stains that wouldn't come out, put it back together again without the stained parts, removed one of the bows from the skirt and put it on the bodice I constructed in vintage velvet fabric I've found at a thrift store. Then I put elastics in the bottom part of the dress to make it a short puffy one. It's almost a full circle skirt so it has lots of volume now.