Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Update

Here is a small update I uploaded last week. The first part is the update, then I'll take you for a walk at a bog. The walk to the bird watching tower is 4 km, so it was 8 km in total along the plank path. Plus 5 km cycling to the starting point and then back home afterwards.

Sunday, April 3, 2022

More doll clothes from books

This is the second part for the video in the last post. It's about the best of the three books, which has patterns in three different sizes for Tonner and Madame Alexander dolls.

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Barbie clothes

I have shown some of the doll clothes in the video in an earlier post, but in the video, you can also see pictures from the book, showing the original outfits. 

Saturday, March 26, 2022

How to make button loops

I was making an evening gown and ended up making the button loops from scratch, that is, using the same fabric I was using for the main parts of the dress. 

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Eyelet pliers

I have used 2 mm eyelets in doll shoes, but never the bigger ones. Eyelet pliers are not expensive, so now I've got them for attaching 4 mm eyelets.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Various projects

I have posted several videos after the last one I added here. Some of them are about taking apart leather jackets I bought from a charity shop closeout sale for very cheap. You can find them on my YouTube channel, so I'm not adding them all here, but here is the first thing I made using those jackets.


I also made something else out of leather, but this wasn't recycled leather, just some very old (some of them 20 years old) pieces.

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Using a stopwatch app, future plans, recycling leather

I wanted to know how long it really takes to convert a t-shirt to a long-sleeved one, so I downloaded a stopwatch app and set to find out.

Then I copied several patterns at once as I knew I wanted to make these at some point.

Buying new leather is not something I like to do, so second hand stores are a great source of materials. I got a great deal on some used leather jackets.