A homemade advent calendar

If you have followed me for a while you know that each year I make the kids a homemade advent calendar. It can be tiny wrapped gifts on a tree branch or like this year, a house in fabric and felt! I did not come up with the idea myself, I actually saw it online […]

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On my sewing list, kitchen

I have so many sewing projects on my list, either on paper, in my head or my pinterest board. Clothes for Alva, me, the boys. Things for the house, to play with and yeah, you get the thing, so many ideas but so little time. A classic by now. But some can be made and […]

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Jumpsuit for Alva #sewing

I found this super cute fabric in a craft store in Montpellier and I immidately knew I wanted to sew a jumpsuit for Alva! The print reminds me a bit of the brand bobo choses and I used a jumpsuit I bought from Zara to draw my own pattern. It turned out so cute, don’t […]

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Sketching

When I started to sew again a year ago or so, the hardest thing for me was the pattern part. How you copy, transfer and follow the instructions to sew. I’ve always been sewing freely without any patterns and I’ve never made any clothing so I was a total beginner. But after my mom showed […]

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Duo dresses – sewing patterns

  After five years of being a boys mama I can go a bit crazy sometimes with the real “girl stuff” and the mum – daughter dresses is one of them! But instead of buying some I’d like to try and sew them myself and I thought I would share the patterns I found with […]

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