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Not sewing related!

Did you know about the golden hour? It occurs twice per day and it gives an AMAZING light. I was yesterday years old when I learned about it! And who taught me, my son who is almost 11!!! Shouldn’t I teach him things like that!?! haha! Anyway, we went out and took some duo-ies (plural of selfie?) and they became very nice. A couple walked by us, laughing and telling us that we will have very nice pictures and memories of this. And yeah, I must admit, we did. Not too happy putting my sons face public, so will blur him out but here’s one of the pictures we took during this golden hour. And yes, before anyone points it out, I know he is catching up with me in length haha!

Note, the times in the featured picture are those in Bergschenhoek, where we live 🙂

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Bike ride, 26 km!

So, yesterday we went on a bike ride to a nice lake close to Delft. It was 13 km one way. We had picnic with us and also stopped one time on the way to save out poor butts. When we got there, there was a “not recommended to swim” because of blue algae (is that the right word? hmm). Anyway, so we had our picnic under a tree and then we biked home again.
Well, today the kid woke up having a mild sunstroke (I hope he learned a lesson to drink more!). Gave some rehydration drink and been stuffing him full of fluids all day and kept him inside. I remember having it at least 2 times when I was a kid, and I learned my lesson the 2nd time it seems! It is not easy “forcing” them to drink when they are older than 4! Anyway, here is a pic from our bike tour yesterday. Tomorrow it is back to the top floor and some more sewing!

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Just one of those weeks!

First week of my sons summer vacation from school so working is a bit on and off. Tuesday morning I started my work-day with sewing 2 sleeves together instead of on the front and back piece. Wednesday, I tried to sew a border without having thread in the machine. And the worst part was, took me a minute to figure it out why there was no seam. 🤣
Guess worrying about a friend, and having your head in all different places than it should, and some lack of sleep, does that to you!
But, I keep going! I always say that the seam ripper is the seamstresses best friend! Yep yep!

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Taking pictures

Now, my biggest problem with taking pictured for the site is, the thing I am taking a picture of needs to lay flat, but it is not meant to be flat. Babies and toddler are anything but flat. So I kind of gave up making the pictures here fantastic, because I don’t want to use AI. Better natural than fake in my opinion. Do you agree?

Like the picture above. It looks very wide but when you put a baby in there, it is not so wide anymore. Thoughts?

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Diaper covers

So, what do you think. Can handmade diaper covers make a comeback? They are cute, handy and can come in whatever color you like. I have had this pattern from when my son was little, drew off some old ones I had around. It is great for the summer when you might want to have the babies only in a diaper, but then you can have this on top of the diaper and suddenly they are dressed!

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I’m back to blogging!

So, after quite some time off the blog, I am now finally back with new energy. I have struggled a lot of how the webpage should be, how not to drown with the changes the government makes to having shops online and what I actually really really want to do with The Sewing Swede. Well, markets!! Markets, markets, markets!! I have had a trial run on my parking lot in June, and it went just fine. Going to be at a Crea Market at Ackershof in August (come, come all!) and I have signed up for more of them there. Let’s hope I get a spot. So now, I need to create quite some. As you see in some of the categories of what you can order, some are missing or only have 1 or 2 items. Can’t be at a market kind of empty.

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What am I?

This is a very good question, that I am asked quite a lot. What they mean is ofc what I do for a living. The short answer is a seamstress. The not so short answer would be: I am a small business owner with a vision and dream. A dream that handmade clothes doesn’t have to be expensive. For me, it means finding fabric on sale for example and make a dress out of it. Or pants. Or a set. Something. And offer this at a lower price than most handmade clothes. Some people say I do not value the time I have put on this. Well, I have. My time to make someone happy, feeling special, is a lot worth. Can’t be measured on money. To put a smile on a child’s face when they put on something that is not mass produced by a big clothing chain.

So what am I? A stay at home mom with a hobby she loves. That she made in to a business.

Because ofc, if you come to me, and wants me to buy a fabric that is 30 Euro, I am not going to only charge you 10 for a child dress. Then I will calculate how much the fabric will cost, and the extra materials, and give you a suggestion. This is why I needed the business, The Sewing Swede, to be allowed to take orders. 😀

Last week, all I did was cut cut cut and cut some more. I have planned to have 1 week cutting, and next week sewing. Because it is too time consuming to change between the 2 on the same day. I will only do that with orders that needs to be finished a certain time.

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Back on the blog finally!

Hey people! It has been a while. And the short explanation is that the plugin for sharing on social media stopped working so then I would have to post everything 2 times, first here and then there. So I decided to go with Facebook for a while, maybe you have followed me there!

The LONG explanation is that I have moved, broken 2 toes, renovated the house we moved to, and just didnt have the patience to sit down and look for another plugin to do what I needed it to do. But now it is fixed!! Whoooop! Well to half at least. Still need to get it to Instagram, unless that works as well. We will soon find out.

So, today, I have finally started with cutting up the smaller pieces I have laying around. To make makeup pads and stuff from the leftover fabric after making something bigger. I like to use the whole meter, we need to stop wasting so much stuff that we can actually use.

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StoffenSpektakel!

Finally! Off me and Marie went to look and feel on fabrics. I found 2 fabrics for my son (look at the picture) and I bought the tracing paper that I needed. Marie found a cute fabric for her dogs pillow. But the major things was, WE were out among OTHER people! For the first time in what feels like forever! Had to show our vaccination app when going for a coffee but that was all. No restrictions or anything!