Not just clothes

I think it's about time to show you that I make other things than just clothes.
One of my other big passions is furniture. I love old furniture, and I don't think that they are comparable to modern ones. My heart bleeds when people just throw the old wonders of crafts away.
My boyfriend and I enjoy to spend time renovating and modernizing things together, and below I want to show you some of our projects.

A few months ago we found this wonderful chair left on our loft. It's made in the late 1920s. It had no cushions so I had these one cut out in foam, and then I covered them with petrol blue furniture fabric, and pulled buttons through to make the look I wanted. Now I think it's my favorite furniture in our apartment!

In the past autumn we got an old glass cabinet. It belonged to my Grandpa and had been in my father's childhood home until his big sister left home, and then she got the cabinet. Many years later her and her husband wanted to throw it out, but luckily my Grandpa said no! He got the cabinet back and used it in his garden house. One day he showed it to me and asked if I wanted it. It needed a loving hand indeed, so off course I said yes!
My boyfriend and I used so much time scratching old paint and shelf paper of with a fan heater, and then it needed basecoat, finishing paint and new porcelain grips. But it was all worth it!

The last thing I want to show you is a small footstool which I bought in an antique shop for only 50 DKK (6,70 Euro). It was covered with the most awful sheep-look alike fabric, so we took that off and covered it  with a fabric intended for deckchairs.

Fall in Denmark

Outside my window all the trees has the most amazing orange colors! Fall has really set its mark on the nature (as you can see on my pictures below, all taken in my neighborhood in Copenhagen), and I think the weather screams for coziness with home baked buns and hot chocolate!

What you also can do in this weather is off course to spend a lot of time in front of the sewing machine, and let yourself be inspired of the colors outside your window.
The jacked and dress below could have been inspired by that with the orange and dark blue colors, but actually I made the dress about half a year ago for my friend for her birthday (as you may remember I wrote about then? Otherwise you can scroll down!). The dress is made in 100% orange cotton, with 100 % orange acetate lining. I have made the upper part as a corsage with plastic stiffeners, and I have chosen plastic so you can wash the dress in a washing machine.
I made the jacket for one of my neighbors a few months ago. He had two weddings to go to, but he didn't feel comfortable in a normal suit. He would like to wear jeans and a jacket that could match these. Therefore I made this jacket in rough denim blue 100% wool with stitches and details in orange that could match the stitches on jeans.
I hope You´ll feel inspired to make something yourself or to just enjoy the colors outside your window!
Today I think that I will light up the fire in my stove and watch a bunch of Sex and The City, and hopefully I will be inspired for my next project AGAIN ;o)

For a rainy day!

My mother in law had for a long time said that she would love to have something which I had made, so we agreed that I should make her a raincoat for her birthday. It was more difficult than I had imagined I will say!

When you make a raincoat, you have to iron a special kind of seam tape (which have some kind of glue on the back side), so that the seams get waterproof as well. It took really long time, and I was pretty dull, so my mother in law got her raincoat over a month after her birthday... Wops! But she loved it, and I am really satisfied with the result too!

Now you can see it for yourself: