First rainbow bracelet

Hi again,

Here is another try

Ah, that is better! I don't know why the knots on this bracelet are not as nice (a bit uneven and a bit knot-knotty) as on the first attempt. I'll put it down to tired hands and late nights. But hey, you can already see this bracelet has potential!

Have a nice day,

TTYS

TSW Bracelet No 25

Hello and good morning!

Do you remember my posts on rainbow and friendship bracelets and how I felt the sudden wants, aka severe TSW, for them?

On my quest for a nice rainbow bracelet knotting pattern I stumbled accross a youtube video by Beyond Bracelets. And oh my, there it was, my rainbow bracelet. Number 25 it is called.
And yes, that implies that there are at least 24 other patterns too! In fact there are even more. I haven't seen too many of the videos yet, but the ones I did watch had very clear instructions. No wind whisteling in the microphone so far.

If you are interested, please have a look at the video and see for yourself.

 

A little wiser now, I used some normal cotton to try out the pattern. It was hard to concentrate but I managed to get a nice bit done. Then I messed up because I got interrupted about 50 times and I couldn't for the life of me remember what step I needed to do and ended up with a weird looking lumpy bit.

That was the exit point for attempt number one. I stayed up late to have another go and this is what it turned out like.

Hmm, I can't seem to get past the video to upload my photo. Mysterious ways of blogger maybe. I'll try and do it in a seperate post to see if that works.

Little dress

Hi There,

Do you remember this dress? It is definitely a dress that I will be making more often. Very quick and very useful.

Between us, don't you think dresses are the best invention ever? Planning, or lack of it, seems to be an issue and preparing what I will wear the next morning is not something that works for me when I am trying to find my bed in the dark late at night.

When the weather is warm enough, slipping on a dress in the morning saves a lot of time and, providing you have the right shoes and cardigan to go with it, you are all set in seconds! Bonus is that you don't look a frump, which is what happens to me when the weather is not warm enough for light clothing. Don't you admire women who look the part all of the time, make-up where it should be, nicely scented and organised at eight (8!) o'clock in the morning? Power!

In the meantime though, I thought it might be a nice idea to make a mini-version of the dress for our little dress and skirt loving monster. This wonderful fabric was beckoning me to turn it into something, anything, just to get out of the pile where it had been sitting for a whole three weeks!

Well, what can you do? I love the print on this fabric, retro but at the same time 'toadally now'. The fabric is made from organic cotton which is a very good thing too. Perfect for a simple play-n-school dress, don't you agree?

One thing I did not like about the fabric is that it only stretches in one direction, width ways. This is something you should take into account when turning it into something else because it does influence the fall of the garment.

I'll show you what I mean by it. This is what it turned out like: a very wide and short dress.

 I used the pattern before, so I know it is not that. It might be a little on the wide side but not this wide. So I undid the sides and the top and bottom parts again, cut off about 2,5 cm on each side (which makes about 10 cm in all!) and added a 5 cm strip of fabric between the top and bottom parts. I added little bits of the royal blue fabric on the front (just thin strips of jersey folded lengthways) to emphasize the middle strip.

This description might be hard to follow but you'll be able to see what I mean when you look here.

Little detail on the inside (for my personal pleasure entirely because who would see such a thing?):

Oh, and on an unrelated subject, I can't stop grinning when I look at my wrist. Do you like it? Far from rainbows still (look here for other bracelets), but I'm slowly getting to grips with the technique. Such a simple  thing can make me so happy.

Anyway, love you and leave you for now,
XOXO

TSW Bracelets

Hi there,

Just a quick note to show you how far I have come with my bracelets. I had great fun thinking back to all those moments I was making these when I was younger ..

This was my number one, to get back into it

Then my number two: 

and three

This last one, if you look closely, has crosses. I'd like to make one with full crosses next but my hands need a rest. Especially my fourth and fifth finger are not used to this type of work, so they definitely need some time off.

And just to show you what we have been doing today, an action shot, taken from a fast moving train.

We had great fun and spent a long time in the park.

TTYS

XO

Rainbow bracelets

Hello, you!

Today is another gorgeous day, and we can finally start believing Summer will actually happen this year.

* big round of applause * 

FYI: This is what my feet look like today. Aren't they beautifully done? And they were a treat too, as a 'start of the season' freebie! Thank you, lovely Els!

For a long time I thought it just mightn't this year. Someone said that one way we already feel the effects of Climate Change in this country is by more and colder Northern winds, and I tend to believe it too. Sunny spells have been alternated by very cold days here. I'm not into all kinds of statisticky things, so it might just be a load of bullcrock, but that is definitely the way it feels to me.

Anyway, on to more important things. Ha! Do you sometimes get hit by 'the sudden wants' (TSW)?  That seem to come up out of nowhere and will actually get you searching the internet for The Thing?
Well, it happens to me. And quite regularly too. I can easily spend an hour (or even two) looking at the most gorgeous fabrics. If I stumble across some beautiful fabric designs, away I am. It can be other things too, but mostly fabric related in my case. Do you know the feeling?

But, in my defence, I don't give in to the TSW's all too easily. It is part of the process to fight the TSW's or - this is where I think the TSW's can actually be a good thing after all - use them as an inspiration to create something beautiful, funny and inspired.

So now it is a leather rainbow bracelet. I actually have no idea why, because I haven't seen any recently or rainbows for that matter. This one is from a shop called RainbowDepot, and I think it is quite nice, but it isn't what I was looking for.

And what about this one? By Knotty Linda

 

You should check out her site, it is hilarious. Her bracelet is nice though. I am getting a sneaky feeling that rainbows have been hijacked by the same sex equal rights campaigners without me knowing about it. Is that something everyone (but me, obviously) knows about?

Not seeing what I wanted spurred me on to want to make my own rainbow bracelet. Do you remember the bracelets that you made when you where younger? These are absolutely gorgeous and made by Jasmijn: 

She explains clearly (I've put the link under her name) how to do it, what materials you need etc. So if you want to have a go, you can go to the page she posted and see for yourself. Mission half accomplished, I know what I want now, This is It!

I'll keep you posted.

Enjoy your day today, XO