Wrap Conversion Halfbuckle - Hoppediz Panama

I have just noticed that I still haven't shown the halfbuckle wrap conversion, I made last year for my husband. I talked about it here.

I made it from a Hoppediz Panama wrap that I had bought on ebay.

The text on the headrest: shush, I'm sleeping!

Height and width of the panel can be adjusted.

Headrest is detachable (and I could make another, more suitable for myself, since this one says 'baby wearing dad')

The straps are upholstered on top (2cm foam) and can be spread further down.

Several Shirts

A friend asked me to make some shirts for newborns and their siblings.

And this is one for my own daughter

The front girlie got a button so that Daddy also knows, what is front and what is back...

Summer Dresses

Both girls are really keen on dresses. Since my older daughter didn't have many that fitted from last year, I had to make some. Even though I don't really like hoods on dresses Schabelina's 'hooded dress' pattern Kapuzenkleidchen is perfect, because there are so many variations and you can even mix knits with woven material.

So the first dress was made from yellow Trigema piquet and woven material from my mother-in-law.

Then one with lilac piquet and two different tweet cottons. Since I even had the matching ribbon for this material it looks quite fancy, I think.

My younger daughter got almost the same.

Here an action picture from the square in Siena with both girls wearing their dresses.

 

For her second birthday she got a lovely strawberry dress with Pinocchio on top.

...and matching leggings...

Back to clay

When I was young I loved to work with clay. So when a friend of mine had it about a pottery atelier just in the neighbourhood where you could follow workshops, I immediately jumped at it!

I tried throwing for a while, but whenever it started to look like a bowl or a pot, it collapsed. With the help of the master I managed to make three bowls (two of which I never collected afterwards).

So in the last hour I decided I really wanted to produce stuff to take home. So I used predried clay sheets to make a vase for my mother and my friend. Both are into ikebana / flowers, so I thought it would make a nice gift. - I still need to take pictures of the vase I made for my mum, but here's already one:

Birthday dress and X-mas skirt for my big girl

Yeah, I know, my attempts to catch up are really slow... Still in December...

A quite spontaneous and quick skirt for Christmas (made from the top of a skirt of mine, the bottom was attached to my Christmas outfit)

The colour is a bit hard to catch, it's actually aubergine, not brown.

Just after Christmas for my daughter's 4th birthday a dress in fuchsia corduroy.

Since my daughter is sucking in stories, enacting and retelling them to herself (or whoever is listening) and she loves fairies, I decided to make it a 'Lesefee' (Reading Fairy) Dress. Actually I think she came up with this herself!

The script is made with the embroidery machine, the fairy I embroidered free-hand with the sewing machine.

Trying to catch up...

 Last autumn I made this colourful jacket for our little one. She loves it a lot and it has been difficult in extreme winter to convince her to put on a warmer jacket and in spring / early summer to put on something lighter. I hope it will still fit next autumn!

The pattern is from Ottobre 4/2010, one of my favourite issues.

The flowery material is corduroy I bought on a 'Stoffenspektakel' some time ago and the lining is jersey from Micha's Stoffecke. The cuffs are actually pink.
I also made a matching scarf for her with cotton teddy.

Last of the summer...

Outside it's really autumn now, windy and rainy... So I'm now working on some autumn clothes for my two girls. But before, I would still like to show you some of my summer's work:

Cute pirate dress. I used the Hopscotch pattern from Ottobre 3/2012 adapted the sleeves a bit and added the skirt made of jersey scraps.

 Hopscotch without the ruffles.

A birthday shirt for our nephew. Robots from Ottobre 3/2012.

 Leggings for my youngest. Don't remember the pattern, I think I just copied some leggings that were lying around. My older daughter got similar leggings, same material...