Pink Moments of Mallorca

Mallorca - sun and fun for everyone.
Photos by Hubby.

Pink Moment of the Week

... when you are coming back from the island of Mallorca, 

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...

Hat and Travel

My midnight crocheting this week lead to this fruit here:

Can you guess which fruit it is? I thought it was obvious, but got a lot of  "strawberry" and some clueless glances from my family for it. It reminds me of a watermelon, doesn't it? After my beanie production earlier this year (here) I came back to his quick and easy way to crochet a hat. The pattern in half double crochet is based on this here, with a couple of more rounds and a crochet ribbing, which I tried for the first time (you can find good video tutorials in English and German for it online).

My Ravelry notes

The ideal companion for the cooler days, 

reminiscing the sweet taste of summer.

But I am more than happy to shed the warm coat, the scarf and even the watermelon hat for the days to come and go to an island where the watermelons are still in season and the sun is warm. 

Hope to see you when we are back!

Pink Moment of the Week

... working with yarn until midnight.

(usually my sleep is my sacrament, but when you get hooked...)

Sew September

That was "Sew September":

4 Pants.

                      4 shirts. 1 hat.

1 tunic dress.

And last, but not least - 

 sewed on the last day of September:

Going back to horses and fleece,

like at the beginning of September.

What will October bring?

Maybe the return to the knitting needles?

I will keep you informed.

Leftover Tunic Dress

Pattern: Longsleeve by Erbsenprinzessin (modifications: added a turtleneck collar, ribb cuffs and two inches of length)
Fabric: sweatshirt fabric leftovers from the Pants Factory

What can a child do while her mother is sewing?

                       

And what can a mother do with the leftovers from the leftovers?

Plan a new project.

The Apple Shirt, but wait...

It was going to be the "Apple Shirt", that other fraternal twin shirt (see the twins here). And it would be finished by the weekend, thus being the perfect outfit for our apple picking party at the neighbour's (see last year's party here). I called it internally the Apple Shirt... until I actually started talking about it to Carolina while sewing... Look at the apples!

Apples? What apples, long shaped ones? 

No these are actually pears.

Apples look like this:

Or like this:

Look at this apple picker girl.

 But you know what? 

You can eat an apple while wearing a "Non-Apple Shirt". 

No problem.

 And sometimes you are lucky. 

 There is one pear tree among all the apples.

 The Pear Shirt.

The Twin Shirts

"Sew September" continues:  this week - long sleeved shirts:

... with turtlenecks!

(this tutorial here helped)

It is the same "Erbsenprinzessin" pattern like the Play Shirt (here), but this time I wanted to add some warmth around the neck. I also like to add an inch to the bottom line, so the shirt really covers the back. The new skill I tried was hemming with a twin needle (here) for more professional looking results:

The Lil' Pink Flower Shirt on the little person music fan that is to be kept warm:

... listening to her favourite song (150 times a day).

... soon to take her own pictures.

Stay tuned for more about the other twin shirt tomorrow.

Pink Moment of the Week

... first time: sewing with a twin needle.

Children & Chalk

... yesterday in front of Oma's house.

(by Clara, her friend and Carolina)

Potatoes

After the zucchini (here) it was now time to harvest the potatoes in Hubby's little veggie garden.

They look like potatoes, the taste like potatoes (good potatoes, for their pure taste best cut in slices and simply baked in the oven for half an hour), but they are something more to us. Our potatoes, from our backyard.

And even though I must have eaten hundredweights of potatoes in my life, only now I understand their true earthy quality, a food so grounding - coming from the ground.

Play Shirt

At the weekend I went back from the pants factory to the initial shirt production.

I worked with a new pattern, Longsleeve by Erbsenprinzessin (here). It was just what I wanted, a basic shirt, that comes in different sizes and can be modified as you like. And I was also quite glad that I had used the fabulous klimperklein e-books to warm up my sewing skills prior to it, because the Longsleeve pattern had only short written instructions. I coped just fine.

With warmer September weather over the weekend my favourite model wore the shirt outside and could be photographed easily from all sides.

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Pink Moment of the Week

... new running shoes, can't help but smile wearing them.

Pants Factory

... not so much blogging this week, but sewing week number 2.

I liked sewing with the klimperklein pants pattern (blogged here) so much, that I made Carolina three more pants. I tried different sizes, colour combinations and a leg cuff variation. Never would I have bought green or striped red-orange ribbing, but was persuaded to try something new and bold apart from pink and purple by the lady at the fabric store. Why not?

I also went down a size to 86 and tried elastic cuffs at the bottom.

Who made it?

(don't think that I am so vain - the labels are just a very good way to tell the back from the front side)

I am very glad that something that was so much fun to sew (getting faster with every pant) can warm my baby throughout the fall. The pants fit, are comfortable and stay up. Thumbs up!

Family Gallery Update

The other day Clara looked at our Family Gallery on the wall and remarked that Carolina has really changed over the last year. Why not draw a new picture?

And while being at it, Clara also updated her looks.

There is no need for a new drawing of Mama-me, she said, I still look the same. Thanks. But Papa could need a makeover. Clara started drawing her Papa, but threw in the towel half way through it. "I can't draw a man, he looks like a boy." And stopped. And wouldn't want to try again.

Clara was also massively opposed to putting a legless Papa-picture on the wall (note what she wrote on the shirt).

So Papa is still riding a horse led by woman without facial features.
No symbolism intended.

Pink Moment of the Week

... new fabric, of course.

Still Sewing

Third round of sewing with horses and klimperklein patterns!

The pattern for the Baby Pants was still waiting in my e-mail-inbox. The horse fleece fabric has also had its waiting time since September last year (here). This time I sewed again the largest size (92) like I did with the Baby Shirt, that fits perfectly. Opposed to the shirt the pants came out like two sizes too long.

But better too long than too short. They will wait for their time to come.

And comfy how the pants are, they are great for romping around.

Now.