Herbstoutfit mal anders

Ich bin ja eigentlich kein großer Freund von Outfit-Posts. 

Aber dieses eine Mal möge man es mir verzeihen, denn ich hab es gemalt. (Jaja, und das gaaanz schmierig mit Ölfarben - aber es war mein erstes Mal mit Ölfarben!!). :P

(Okay, gut, fotografiert worden ist es, nachdem ich es gemalt habe, auch, aber nur, weil der Hintergrund so hübsch war, mit all dem Efeu und dieser wirklich schönen roten Tür - das passte einfach zu gut).

Meine neue rote Lieblingstasche gibt es übrigens hier.

Proudly presenting: the Flower Top, my very first garment ever!

I have to admit I'm feeling a little tiny bit proud.

This is the first garment I've ever sewn (apart from slippers and bags, that is).

The front:

And: there's no tracing pattern to it since I've copied a cut from an H&M-top using Burda copy-foil 

--> (Kopierfolie!! What a mad process - but it did work!!) :D

The back:

Don't get too close - you can see that it's been my first try... -.- 

And a very blurry, red-ish photo made by night from how it looks when you wear it.

(Namely, NOT like the original shirt because the orginal is made from jersey and I used plain cotton...) 

 See the school-bag in the background? Yep, I've been terribly busy studying... ;P

A Scarf

Something I actually forgot to show you is this scarf. I found the fabric at the same shop in my home-town where you can also get the little blue strawberries.

I created the pompons by separating some parts of the fabric and filling them with balls of cotton wool. A strong thread fixed the pompon.  

Björk's Swan-Dress!

Well, many people have been asking me about this.

The Björk-swan dress. 

I made it for my sister for carnival because she looks a bit like Björk herself.

Total strangers come up to her and tell her that she looks like Björk. So I told her I would make her Björk's famous swan-dress for carnival. 

Here it is:

It took about a week to make (machine-sew, glue, hand-sew....).

The swan's beak is glued and the eyes are the same kind of eyes as the little white bunny at the bottom wears in his face. 

For the swan's neck I used white velvet to make it look more furry. 

The base-dress was made without any sample or drawing at all. I simply cut a hole into white fabric and pulled it over my sister's head. Then I stitched needles around her to find the dress's form. 

After that I pulled it off her and machine-sewed along the needles. THAT's really unprofessional but I just didn't want to look through the Burda magazines and then alter a complicated dress. I mean, I only needed a simple base-dress. Thus, I made one. 

Then I took about 9 metres of tulle and cut it into strips (I got this from "How to make Björn's swan dress" tutorials, yes, there really are many of them outside on the internet!!). I gathered it and, this was my sister's idea, sew the gathered stripes directly with the machine. 

The complicated part was following. It seemed to be impossible to machine-sew the gathered tulle stripes onto the base-dress.

Thus, I discovered a funny position in which to hand-sew the stripes onto the base-dress sitting on my sofa. xD Looked funny a bit like the so called "tailor position" (in Germany) and I looked like the brave tailor, haha.

So, here it is again:

Doesn't she look cute and a bit like Björk? :-)