Category: naaien

Quiet book – Rooster

Time for page 2 of the quiet book. After the sheep, the rooster. Once again with felt, googly eyes and embroidery yarn. And some feathers I got at De Banier, since I’m not too apt to get too close to a rooster in real life. I also filled its chest with a bit of stuffing. To give the impression of...

Quiet book – sheep

If you follow me on pinterest, you’ve probably notived that I have a thing for quiet books. Something I wanted to try for myself. A popular theme here at home: the farm. Something worth trying. So while we were in Scotland, I plucked sheep (not the beast, just the barbed wire). Back home, I made this, with Shaun for inspiration: Ingredients A...

Bucket hat

Before we left on holiday, our little man’s bucket hat (one that never made the blog, it seems), went missing. And eventhough everyone assumes it always rains in Scotland, I didn’t want to leave without a hat. And luckily we didn’t, since it turns out it can get rather hot in the Highlands. Time for a new hat. And since...

Baby’s learning-to-sit pillow

I’ve already forgotten at what age baby’s learn how to sit, but what I do remember, is that they do so gradually. Gradually, because they can just sit there, and then the next second they tumble over. Hard. Gravity punches them right in the face. In daycare, they had a solution for that: a special pillow. It looks a bit...

Hema hack

Our little guy is not that big a fan of sleeping bags. They prevent him from standing, walking, and most of all running. Something had to be done. The answer? Take a Hema sleeping bag, and convert them into sleeping trousers as follows: Measure the lenght of your toddler’s leg on the inside. This is the hardest part of the...

Tutorial – How to make a reversible cloud pillow

Since I had a whole collection of raindrop pillows that I made for my guest post over at fortunecookiez.be, I couldn’t but sew a cloud pillow as well. A reversible one for that. Angry on one side, happy and sunny on the other side. Do you want to make your own? You can find the free pattern below. What do...

Raindrops keep falling on my head – Free pattern for a raindrop pillow

What do you need? Something round to use as a template to draw the basic circle of your pattern. Think pots and pans, your coffee mug (if you want a small raindrop), your earmuffs, whatever you have lying around. Or you can act like a real professional and use a drafting compass A ruler, paper, pencil and scotch tape Some...

Tablet Cover with magnetic strip and camera hole – tutorial

I already put some clothes on the e-readers in this house, but the tablet we got as a gift when we subscribed to our newspaper has been lying around very naked. Time for action. New cover, again based on the pattern by Eva Maria, but with a magnetic strip and a camera hole. What do you need? A piece of fabric...

Crowned

Yesterday our little boy celebrated his first birthday. 1 year old already. I know it’s the oldest cliché in the book and all moms use it, but time flies by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday that I was waiting for his arrival. You can’t celebrate your birthday without a crown. I used Mina Dotter‘s pattern as the basic pattern,...

Kcw summer 2013 – the end

Last Saturday I started a second Kids clothes week challenge: the Pufferfish linnen trousers from Ottobre 3/2012. There are 2 versions for this pattern: a short one and a long one. I chose the long one. The sewing instructions mention 3 parts, but on the pattern sheet I found a 4th part: a pocket. Now, my hubby has a pair...