The Needle has a point

If you like embroideries you should check out one of my earlier classmates' work: The Needle has a point. Her name is Tine Wessel, and she is really good! She makes modern embroideries like you haven't seen it before! Check it out, and be inspired!

Way too long ago!

Hmm, it's been a while, I know. My excuse is not good enough, but I haven't been making so much lately, because the course I'm taking, takes a lot of my time. But it's over in about a month!
Besides school I've only been sewing lots of pillow- and mattress covers for friends, family and so on. It seems like people want's new things for their home when the sun stars shining, and so will I...

Actually I've started a new project, but it's just something that I'm working on besides everything else, so it will probably take a couple of years to finish! So what is this thing I'm working on?
You can see it on the picture below. I like to make patchwork sometimes, it's nice to do in front of the TV, or when I'm restless. I've started on my second blanket, and I have to make 63 of the stars, as the one in the first picture, in different colors, like on the second picture. Perhaps it will inspire some of you out there to start a new project?

New dress on it´s way!

I´ve started at a new course with Business Economy, Sales & Service and IT, so that I will be more attractive when I apply for jobs, because there are not lots of them available! So right now it takes a lot of my time, and so does my assignment with the suits, for the company NUNC. Therefore I don´t have a lot of time to work on my own projects, but when I have time I´m working on a Maxi Dress (the sketch below). I will make it in the fabric that I designed at the Computer Design course that I participated in a few weeks ago. It's 100% silk with small birds on it, as you can see below...
I think it will be fantastic when it´s done and I want to finish it before April 22. where I´m going on vacation to Rome for five days!!
Hope you like it, even though it´s still only a sketch.

Plans for Saturday?

On this Saturday afternoon I will show you a dress wich I´ve made as a school project a few years ago. I wish I had plans for tonight where I could dress up like on the picture, or just a little...
Instead I have to work on an assaignment including a suit, but more about that another time (when I´ve finshed it)!

Orange Eyecandy

My latest project is the dress below. It´s for one of my friends, and I promised to have it ready for tomorrow when it´s her birthday. It´s an orange fifties dress, with a corsage upper part and a skirt with lots of width. The fabric is from Prada and it´s 100% cotton. The lining is acetate.
I finished the dress yesterday, but I don´t have a picture of it yet. Instead I made this cutout with the real dress in about 1:10. The fabric is the one I´ve used, but the waist is a little too high on this sketch.

Beneath you can see how the pattern looks (it´s about 1:10 and it´s only the front).

Springtime and Confirmation

Today is the first day of spring, and outside the sun is shining!

Lots of young girls (and boys) are these days looking forward to their Confirmation, wondering how the day will be, and not at least what to wear! In the occasion of that I will show you a dress I made last year, for my boyfriend’s cousin. I hope it will inspire some, and remember you are always more than welcome to contact me, if you want me to make a dress or something else.

The dress is made in a cream-colored crispy silk, with an upper part in cream-colored satin with hand-stitched beads and sequins. The lining is silk, and is used to make a scarf as well.

A night out?

Friday night must be the right time to show you one more of the dresses I have made!
I made this one for myself last spring. The construction is inspired by japanese "Pattern Magic".

Sadly I don´t remember what kind of fabric it is, but I now that it´s mixed. If I should make it again, then I would use another material, something thinner. But I love the color!

Attire Dolls

Lady's of the fifties Ester Williams & Elisabeth Taylor in dresses BY LOUISE!
(The dresses is designed by me, and so is the pattern.)

Tote Bag

Just remembered that I promised to show you one of the Tote Bags that I've made... This one is made in a rough canvas with stars and straps in crocodile leather. (I ones bought a bag of leftover crocodile leather in  lots of different colors, and finally I have found something that I can use it for!) The bag is made with black lining inside. Enjoy!

Reveal of...

Finally I can show you the black Gala dress which I have designed, constructed and sewn. It's made in 100% silk both inside and out. It has a very simple cut with a waterfall on the back, and a little extra width from a small wedge center back. I hope you like it!

I can also reveal the present that I made last week... It's a tie made in the most amazing fabric, 100 % wool with a shiny surface. I think it looks so nice! I gave it to my boyfriend’s big brother for his 28th birthday. I think he liked it (and I sure hope, the fabric was not cheap...)! What do you think about it?

Fashion Week & Sunday news

This past four days has Copenhagen been covered in Fashion Week. I participated Thursday were I was at the fair in "Bella Center" helping "I tråd med verden". You should check out their website, they make lots of nice accessories! The following day (Friday) they got a visit from Crown Princess Mary, so cool that they were chosen!! Unfortunately that was all I did during Fashion week, I was sick. Bad timing!

Below you can see my latest sketches made in Illustrator. Just trying some different stuff, but I think they look great!
I have now taken pictures of my three latest sewing projects. I just need to run them through Photoshop, so they are worth uploading in here!
Hope all of you had a nice weekend!

What happened...

Sorry it’s been so long... I've had so much to do!
1. The Event Silhouettes went so well! A lot of people came to have a look, the atmosphere was good, and so was the entertainment. I talked to a lot of people, got my picture taken next to my jacket by some photographers, and I handed out a lot of my postcards. Hopefully that will bring some job opportunities in the future!! I was also asked to write a small article for a Textile magazine, very interesting I think!
2. I finished the black silk dress yesterday, and I hope to post a picture of it soon, so that all of you can see it. It looks very elegant and classy!
3. I'm so into the Computer Design course that I'm taken! It's cool to make patterns for textile printing (I think I will print one of my patterns on silk, and make a nice fifties dress), and also to draw working sketches of clothes. Below you can see some I've made…
The dress is my own design. I like that it's so classic, and that it makes me think of the feminine fifties... It is simple and feminin!
4. Now I've started working on a present.. I can't tel you much about it yet, because I will give it away this Saturday.. Uhh...

It's snowing!!! :o)

The little black dress

The weekend is just around the corner!
I'm looking forward to it, just started at a computer design course this Monday... It's really interesting and I'm learning so much, but it's hard for the brain ;o) I'm learning all sorts of things in Photoshop, Illustrator and Pad System pattern. Today I started working on pattern report systems, which can be printed out on a textile printer so that I can make my own fabrics. So cool!
But my head needs the weekend now, especially because I'm looking forward to the event on Saturday.
But as always I have a problem... What shall I wear? It will probably be a black dress, that's always elegant and classy, and looks professional.
At the picture down under you can see a black dress that I made a few years ago. It's got laces, a kind of fan at the upper part and swimsuit back. The fabric is not an especially good quality, because I didn’t mind earlier, but I sure do now. Hope you'll enjoy

Event

Remember my participation in the event "Silhouettes" next Saturday the 21. Of January!
It's for free and there will be served a little something to drink. There will also be entertainment in the form of live music, and perhaps a dance show...
The picture below is actually a postcard which I have made (well, actually it's my photographer Jonas Danholt who made it) for the event as a kind of business card... I hope to give a lot of them away!