by mariadenmark | May 3, 2012 | Me Made May
What a week- What a week-end! We had a fabulous party for Dennis’ s 40th this Saturday (and my son had his DJ’ing debut <very proud mom>) Not much sewing, but a bit of knitting – more about that later. Anyway. ME-Made-May 2012 has begun! On May...
by mariadenmark | Apr 24, 2012 | Design, Sewing
I had a Super Sewing Sunday: I started out by pressing and ironing and setting in the snaps of my shirt dress muslin, which might not be a complete muslin after all – it is wearable. ( I got tons of compliments when I wore it at work yesterday.) We might even...
by mariadenmark | Apr 19, 2012 | Design, Sewing
SO. Can you tell the spring break is over? That school is back in full swing and that there are extra meetings and courses? I can! This past week has been filled with teaching, an obligatory week-end course for teachers (in which I had planned on getting a lot of...
by mariadenmark | Apr 11, 2012 | Sewing, Tissue Fitting
Yes, I am. And now you get to listen to how I sound when I speak English – I hope my accent doesn’t disturb you too much:-) Picture from Flickr – creative commons Tini of Tini’s world of Crafts and the Twin Needle Podcast kindly asked me to...
by mariadenmark | Apr 10, 2012 | Me Made May
As if I didn’t have enough on my plate (the son’s Non-firmation party in May (and sewing my outfit), the husbands 40th party this month (and choosing the outfit), my shop, writing instructions for the tee, oh and the full time teaching job, the t-shirt...
by mariadenmark | Apr 9, 2012 | Sewing
… (drumroll, please, honey) The winner of 4 lovely MiniKrea patterns is H.alda who commented Please contact me with your e-mail and postal addresses (you can e-mail me at maria@shoponion.com). If you didn’t win – fear not: You can still...
by mariadenmark | Apr 9, 2012 | Sewing
A sleeve roll is a nice pressing tool that’ll allow you to press open long seams in narrow spaces like a sleeve or trouser leg – i.e. anything that doesn’t fit over an ironing board. But I like to use it for side seams as well, mostly because that...
by mariadenmark | Apr 7, 2012 | Design, Sewing
I’m in the T-shirt project, a sew- along hosted by E-made this. The idea is to make 12 differently styled t-shirts – one each month for a year, being creative with designs, alterations or prints/colours. My first t-shirt for this sew-along is actually a...
by mariadenmark | Apr 2, 2012 | MariaDenmark
We are interrupting this blog posting about t-shirts with a small announcement… :-) Yep! I’m doing a GIVEAWAY! I’m going to be an aunt (second time, different brother) in October and to celebrate I’m giving away 4 MiniKrea kids patterns (with...
by mariadenmark | Apr 1, 2012 | Design, Sewing
Elisabeth over at E Made This! has started a Sew-a-long. 12 t-shirts in 12 months. That’s a sew-along I actually have a chance of doing! The idea is to be creative in the sewing of t-shirts. Maybe trying some new design details or new patterns. Or just doing...
by mariadenmark | Mar 31, 2012 | Design, Sewing, Tissue Fitting
It might be a bit much to say – but this past week-end’s class on tissue-fitting as per the PalmerPletch system (Fitting For Real People) has really opened my eyes. I have known about the principles for tissue fitting for years and have been using them to...
by mariadenmark | Mar 24, 2012 | Design, Sewing
I’m at a faboulous fitting seminar with 9 other women and we are havomgivelserne a great time getting better at tissue fitting! I’m loving every minute of it! I’ll write more about it when i get back home.
