señorita con sombrilla

Quieres que se de la vuelta? Bira ematea nahi duzu?
Do you want her to turn around?…

Back home! It`s great to come back home feelling happily anxious to come back to work…

Es genial volver de vacaciones con ganas e ilusionada por la vuelta al trabajo, en el anterior me dolía…Si se disfrutan el doble!

Guztiok izan beharko genuke sentsazio hau.

To London!

Tomorrow I`m flying to London! I`ll be there for a week, and hopefully I will come back with some fabrics!

Y mañana a Londres, qué ganas de rastrear….

Bihar goizean hegazkina hartu eta Londonera! Astebete egongo naiz bertan, eta espero dut hainbat ohialekin bueltatzea!

pruebas

Mi idea para sacarles fotos a estas dos señoritas era con la escenografía que veis y que estuvieran iluminadas tan solo por la luz de la “cristalera”. Ahí es nada, contraluz , ellas blancas con el pelo negro que, o les desaparecía el pelo o estaban quemadas, o, como vereís a continuación, tenían un pequeño desenfoque. Y yo armada con una cámara doméstica cuyo fabricante le inculcó bien aquello de que “las cosas no son o blancas o negras” porque tiene tendencia a adornarlas con unos puntitos rojos. Si los aspectos técnicos hubieran estado bien me habría quedado muy satisfecha, habrá que invertir en una buena máquina…

Bueno, aquí os dejo las pruebas de foto de las muñecas ya terminadas (estaban algo diferentes cuando las conocisteis):

Photo challenge: my idea was to photograph these dolls only with the window light, not easy having black and white dolls and a domestic camera. The result is not as good as I`d like to, but I want to show it to you, they could have been nice photos…(You met these dolls before but they were slightly different)

tote bag and books

Last week the postman brought home three wonderful books:

I am learning how to sew and make patterns while I make them, and I was needing some kind of referece book because I don`t have many basic sewing notions, I have discovered some by my own , but it`s hard and slow to learn this way.

So here I have one to learn a good way to make soft toy patterns so I can make my own patterns much better. It is “Soft Animals A to Z” by Carolyn Vosburg Hall, one of the best things of this book is that it explains so clearly the order to sew the softie`s parts. The order is so important when you are sewing any kind of stuff, but when you are making a softie it is one of the most important clues to make it all right.

Another book is “Simple sewing” by Lotta Jansdotter, and as the tittle says it has simple sewing projects, but made with a very good taste. Each project has a couple of drawings to help the mainly written explanations (so I learn to sew and I improve my english at the same time, great!), a picture of it finished, and also the pattern.

And the last one, but not the less important, “Craft Inc” by Meg Mateo Ilasco. I highly recommend this book to everyone who wants to make of crafting his/her way of life, although the legal considerations are only for USA laws, the rest of the book will be very helpful, it`s so well explained and it is soooo beautifully printed.

Koko also likes them, she`ll start studying the soft animals one, so logical.

And this is my first tote bag, do you recognize the brown and orange fabric? (*) It is not a good one to make softies, because it is too rigid, but it is great to make bags, appliques or any flat object. I love its print pattern.

(*) If not here you have the answer, click!