Crayons wooden box DIY

Well, well, well. When I was starting this blog and defining what it will be about and what I want to show you here, I've never even supposed I'll be doing DIY projects. I was so in love with sewing and knitting that I almost forgot about my passion to other types of crafting. It was all the new connections and meetings that brought me here - to my first DIY post. One day I realized all my inspirations and new ideas are circling around home decor DIY.
So I looked around and found soooo many things to be done at my appartment! I've decided to start with an easy one though, and the one mostly important and necessary these days. My daughter's crayons box - plain and simple.

You don't use a kitchen apron? Don't worry, I'll make one for you!

My dearest sister Ann and her husband is going to visit South America these days. What an adventure is waiting for them!!! (Oh! How jealous I am!) Before their departure we went to visit them last Sunday evening, and I have once again noticed (actually I have only confimed my prevoius observation) that my sister doesn't use the kitchen glove I made for her one day for her name day!!! 

When I visit Sokół, the kitchen glove and the apron I made for her new appartment looks like being used all around :-) And I love it! 

But, frankly speaking, I also accept the fact, that my dearest sister Ann doesn't have a need to use the kitchen accessories I made for her, although it is she who is cooking the most in our family (exept our Mom). I have to admit, that at the time I made these accessories for Ann as a gift, I was able to do only such things on my sewing machine. I loved the way the fabrics may be put together in different combination, and I thought my sister (or anybody else) would love it too. So there was a moment in my life, when I made only kitchen accessories gifts, no matter if the recipient needed such accessories or not, and no matter if he or she was going to use it or not :-) I didn't care as long as I loved the gifts I made by my hands. Well, I'll show you some of them, and you decide, whether I was right or not :-)

Butterfly baby blanket

In spite of ubiquitous minky fabric, especially those minky cuddle dimple dot fabrics which are used now for every kind of baby blankets in Poland (I've also used it in one of my projects, see here), as the spring came here, I have made a butterfly baby blanket for my little daughter. I made it of microfiber fabric, similar in touch with minky, but totally different in look.

No matter how minky blankets are beautiful, my daughter deserves something more original. I was looking for an inspiration for a long time and, as usual, it occured, that everything is within reach, you just need to take it and put the puzzle together. Enough talking, time for the show :-)

Patchwork Throw Blue - Beige

I've made a promise, that as soon as there will be time for it - I will make some photos of my first patchwork throw, and here it is!

First steps in patchwork technique

After a long break it is high time to get back and catch up on my Blog adventure. There is lot of work to do, meaning lot of done projects to be shown to you, my dearest readers.

Today I will show you the effects of my first steps in patchwork - as I did really some nice throws in this technique. Unfortunately, I don't have much photos of it, not even much of time when I was doing them, collecting fabrics, cutting, sewing, etc. So here are only the results of my work. Could you imagine I did all of this with my simple 888 Arka Radom sewing machine? ;-)

My first baby blanket

The will be a New Human Being in our team of friends - with no name at the moment, but hopefully the Parents will sooner or later find out what the name might be and find an agreement on how to name the Baby nice :-)
For this New Baby, who will be a girl for sure (luckily we now at least the sex!), I have created on last Saturday a baby blanket made of blue minky fabric. The only condition set by the Mum of the New Baby Girl is that there is no exaggeration with pink, because although it will be a girl, the pink will be the last colour in her wardrobe.
So I made it, with only a slight addition of pinky, amaranth - to be precise. And I hope that the New Baby Girl will like it :-) Here it is - Baby Blanket No 1.

Pillow case - ciao ragazze e ragazzi!

After a long long break (isn't it the begining of each post of mine? Eh!), I am back with a new project. Guess what? It's all because of Sokół - she makes my creativity blooming :-) So she asked for two pillow cases, 35cmx35cm each. 

And who picked the fabrics? Yes, yes, the famous, great, fabulous Sokół. I trust in her taste and her style as she is doing quite well with her scrapbooking hobby (OK, she does GREAT with it!). And I'm never worry she would pick a fabric I don't like. So she picked those "Who is that girl?" fabric of Robert Kaufman collection.

Bespoked gift for Maggie

Today I'd like to show you the gift I made for Maggie. It was my friend Kamila (hereinafter reffered to as: "Sokół" ;-) who asked me to do the gift. And she wanted to have a huge impact on what it would be done of. So at the begging we (read: mostle she ;-) have picked some fabrics from Craftfabric Store. Sokół choose the Cats, so the rest part of the gift had to be adjusted to the Cats...

My dearest Sokół was the first beneficiary of the kitchen apron and other kittchen accesories (see them here), and she loved it so much (I guess ;-) that she asked for a similiar one for Maggie.

Rising sewing lover

It has been for a long time now that I knew, crafting is what I love. I wasn't wrong, of course ;-) I realized that when it comes to sewing on the day of my 30'th birthday, as I got those simple sewing machine from my family. I started to sew right after the birthday cake! And here is what came out of it!

Let's get it started!

This story has the beginning long, long time ago, when the famous Barbie doll was the essense of my life. The doll had to wear something, obviously, and that "something" turned out to be my own designs and production. And you know what! They looked really fashionable at that times. They weren' just clothes - they were clothes made of the most wonderful fabrics on Earth - cut out from my mothers dresses :-) (my Mum still keeps reminding me of this everytime she speaks with soemone about my sewing wachine :-)
Unfortunately, at that time I didn't make any photos of my first mastrepieces. But I managed to dig out some photos of more contemporary work of mine, and I would like to show them to you. Some of you have probably seen them before, and this refers to all my wedding guests, whom I send my greetings.
I'm sorry for a questionable quality of these photos, the next ones will be a hundred times better. At that time I persuaded my younger sister to help me and cooperate.

So at the beginning there was this passion for paper wedding cakes...