Kingdom of Knuffel

Ohhh, they look very nice! Not like a first try of a new technique at all! :)
Now I'm excited to see what you'll come up with design-wise for more of them :)

Thank you :) I'm hoping I can finish hemming my dress this weekend and then post some finished pics soon :)

Ah, on the topic of online courses - I enrolled with http://foundationsrevealed.com just before easter (they had an enrollment period then, you can't join at all times unfortunately), which is a pretty cool site about corset-making and history inspired or recreating clothing. They also have some nice articles freely available, if you guys are interested :)

The fabric painting sounds super cool! Did you manage to try it out yet?

I have since managed to finish hemming my dress, but alas, no pictures yet since I want to take them somewhere outside in the landscape and my boyfriend (who will have to be the one actually doing the photographing) has been pretty reluctant to leave the house more than necessary due to his hayfever. But it is getting better now, the stuff he reacts most to is going out of season, so I'll hope to convince him to go out for a shooting with me soonish :)

I have so many ideas of things I want to make at the moment, but also so many articles to read and workshops to watch on foundations revealed... Also, my bf and I have recently started playing divinity together, so much of my evenings are spent huddling in front of the tv together gaming, which is also very nice, but definitely hinders my sewing output :D

Today I scored a lot of cheap fabric to make mockups out of though, I'm super happy! There was a table of left-over fabric pieces in front of a local home decoration store. I got four pretty big pieces (the largest is 7m x 1,40m, the next is 4m, the other two are something around 2m) for 17 euro total :)
I think these will last me a while :)
The 4m piece is even an actually nice looking fabric in a light blue, I might consider making something real out of it and not just mockups. I don't know what the material is yet, though, I want to do a burning test to see if it is plasticy before I decide what to do with it.
The 7m and one of the small ones are definitely plastic, but should be fine for just mocking some things up. The other small one seems like a very lightweight cotton maybe, I want to test it too, I could see myself ending up using it for real if it is. I have been thinking about making an airy white cotton summerdress...

I haven't made any clothes for myself in such a long time it would probably take me a day to dig out my sewingmachine if the need would come up.
Lately I've been big into making miniatures and even got some DIY roomsets to play with. :}

A day is still doable though ;)
What kind of miniatures are you making? Sounds fun!

Picture time! I did get that outdoors shooting this weekend :)
So here's my green dress + the tabletwoven circlet I made in action!



The veil I bought on ebay, the belt on a medieval faire. The little green pocket that I'm wearing next to the horn in the last picture was made by my bf

Edit: Ended up putting a picture I didn't put here on my IG, so here you go for that: click

Popping by to say hi ..beautiful work Chrizine!
Really must get more confidence with sewing clothes and make something for my daughter ...mainly sewing dolls for her lately

Thank you and welcome here, rosemaryjayne! :)
Sewing dolls sounds fun and like a good way to build up sewing skills :)

I have done a little project in the meantime that I haven't shown here yet - 18th century pockets:



They are super practical, since I can just wear them underneath any annoying pocketless skirt or dress :)
And they were easy to make as well, I followed this tutorial:


Will probably make some more in a light colour to hide under lighter coloured skirts sometime :)

Right now I have a new ongoing project of a simple skirt, but I am a bit stuck on it since I think I made it too small / my addition of inseam pockets doesn't work well with the pattern. I expected the shape of the skirt to be a bit different. Will have to take some WIP pics to show you guys soon.

I’ve been making dolls on and off for the past 25 or so years ..this is the last one I made just something simple for my 3 year old daughter...my own pattern ..face is hand embroidered

Oh wow, it is gorgeous! I am super impressed by the embroidery, especially the eyes look so good!

Thank you very much! I’m on a roll with dolls..sketched up 3 more just this morning and already embroidered 2




Love your pockets..great idea! I made something similar out of denim a few years back to use while gardening to hold my snips and string