A lot of people, when they are thinking about the Nederlands, think mostly about wooden shoes, wind mills, cows, tulips, cheese and bicycles. Now I have to admit that we have all those things, yet most people have nothing to do with wooden shoes, wind mills or cows.
Except for me; I love animals, herbivores and thus also cows and I own wooden shoes. Unfortunately, a cow does not fit in my garden, but I have a small vegetable garden and wooden shoes are very practical for that. Of course I have custom handmade wooden shoes in Sonja Style.
I began with a plain wooden shoe, which was handmade by a man from Veenendaal, (The Nederlands) and varnish them with paint and draw some butterflies and flowers on it.
Here are some pictures of them:
I also have a bicycle. It is a very strong and 'old' city model. It is made to cycle comfortable on flat ground and have therefore only three gear. It has a basket and bags for carrying instant shopping with me. First it was a dark blue coloured bike, but due to the overcrowded cycling parking places at the train station, I could hardly find it back.
Therefore, and because you already might have noticed that I like pink a lot, I decided to paint it pink. I took the bicycle apart and cleaned it very well. Then I sprayed the components with a primer, before I put on the pink colour, to dim the dark background and to enhance the effect of the paint. After that I had to put everything back in the right place. Fortunately I had very good help from my housemate J. :). Since then, I have had never got the problem of finding it again.
This was the result:
Friday, 31 January 2014
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Mister Hairy
Sonja Style: Mister Hairy |
Sonja Style: Mister Hairy |
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Three of a Kind (nr 1 of 3)
I love bags and I have to admit that I have a lot of them. My first sewing project was a bag. I thought that it would be easy, because you do not have to take fitting and sizing into account. Yet it was a lot more work than expected.
Still I really like to make bags and now I have even more due to my hobby ;). I would say a win-win situation.
Three of the bags I have made, are my favorites. The first one is the famous Buttercup from 'Made By Rae'. When you google on "Buttercup + bag", you can find a lot of inspiration about this free pattern, or go to the website of Rae: www.made-by-rae.com to find the pattern and more information about it.
I did some alternations at the pattern, to make it more functional and to give it a touch of myself ;)
- the strap is placed between the interior and exterior fabric
- lined the fabrics with iron-on interfacing
- added a zipper
- added the felt flower
- used heavy canvas for a less floppy result.
- added the blue bias tape
Still I really like to make bags and now I have even more due to my hobby ;). I would say a win-win situation.
Sonja Style: Buttercup bag made by me |
I did some alternations at the pattern, to make it more functional and to give it a touch of myself ;)
- the strap is placed between the interior and exterior fabric
- lined the fabrics with iron-on interfacing
- added a zipper
- added the felt flower
- used heavy canvas for a less floppy result.
- added the blue bias tape
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