Merry Christmas .:. Frohe Weihnachten

EN I wish you and your family merry christmas and happy holidays. I'll be back after the christmas holidays with my DIY christmas outfit.

Sincerely,

Stef

DE Ich wünsche Euch und Euren Familien fröhliche und besinnliche Weihnachten. Ich melde mich nach den Weihnachtsfereitagen mit meinem selbstgenähten Weihnachtsoutfit zurück.
Liebe Grüße

Stef

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#SeamstressTag .:. Get to know me

The lovely Michelle of That Black Chic tagged me last week to take part on #SeamstressTag. I loved to get to know her a little more, if you don't know about her blog by now, you should deffinetely check it out. She is vera talented and creative and makes amazingand colorful cloth for her daugher, who models for Michelles blog.

So are the answers to Michelles questions:

1) Who are you? 

Hi, I’m Stefanie (or Stef), I’m 34 years old and I live with my husband in the South of Germany (near Stuttgart). I studied at Heidelberg University and work now full time in the education field. This year I got married to my favourite person and the photographer of all my blog-pictures @jaundno (usually he takes wildlife photos). 

2) When & why did you start sewing? 

I started sewing during my University time 2009. It seemed to me, that all students wore the same outfits and I wanted some individual clothes. Besides that I wanted really good fitted cloth, because I’m nearly 6feet/1,80m tall and I couldn’t find a perfect fit in RTW cloth. To be honest I’m still learning to find the perfect fit… but I’m getting closer. My Mom used to sew, too, but we live 100km apart, so I learned sewing mostly on my own. I’ve never attend a sewing class or something like that. I just try to find my own way. 

3) What is your favorite or proudest make? 

I’m proud of all my makes, you can take a look at my DIY wardrobe here. There you see all my makings. 

4) What is your most disastrous make? 

Puh, that’s hard to say. I think all my makes are wearable and no disaster at all. But the make I don’t like that much are my older making, mostly because of the fit. As I mentioned I learned sewing on my own, so naturally I made a lot of mistakes in the beginning. 

5) Where is your favorite place to go fabric shopping?
Usually I shop my fabrics online, because I can’t find the time to go to the fabric shops. We don’t have that much great fabric shops around and usually I can’t find what I’m looking for. You find all my favourite fabric shops here.

6) What is your most used pattern?
My first ever bought sewing magazine was Burda style (issue 09/2009) and I learned sewing with Burda style patterns. I have no real go-to-pattern, but I used this Burda style T-shirt pattern twice (Burda style 09/2011 #108) and these are my most worn T-shirts ever.

7) Your most dreaded sewing task is...
Definetely button holes… not that these are that difficult, but my sewing machine use to mess up at least one or two button holes and there is nothing more annoying for me then a perfect nearly finished sewing project with badly looking button holes, just because my sewing machine went crazy.

8) And your favorite sewing task?
I love to sew pants. I try to find the perfect fitted pants pattern since 2009 and now I drafted a pattern myself, which fit really nice. For me pants are essential and I tried so many pattern that I don’t even look at the instructions any more. I can sew pants blindfolded.

9) What is your favorite 'sewing entertainment'?
I love to hear audio books while sewing, it’s like I’m in a complete other universe. I love fantasy novels like “Lord of the rings” and “Harry Potter”, but I also love crime thrillers a lot.

10) Printed or PDF?
I prefer PDF patterns. You can get them around the clock with no waiting for the snail mail and I can print them various times. I know a lot of the seamstress out there hate to glue the PDF pages together, but I LOVE it, it’s meditation to me. I love to cut and glue in the evening, when I’m too tired to sew (because when I’m tired, I make mistakes…).

11) What sewing machine do you use?
I have a Pfaff quilt expression 4.0 sewing machine and for serging the Pfaff overlock 4.0, but I’m not quite happy with both. I bought them 2011 and since then they were broken every single year, mostly right before my holidays where I planned to sew… I’ll use them to death and will then go for another producer like Yuki or something like that.

12) Do you have any other hobbies?
Besides sewing, blogging is one of my time consuming hobbies, but I also love to photograph.

Thank you Michelle for tagging me.

Now it's my turn and I'm tagging:

- Mette of Sew Blue Dresses 

- Chuleenan of C sews 

- Jennifer of Ms Jenny Homemaker and

- Teresa of Tany et la Mode

I love all the makings of these four ladies, they are very creative and very talented. Because of that I'd love to get to know them a bit more. 

The questions:

1) Who are you?

2) When & why did you start sewing?
3) What is your favorite or proudest make?
4) What is your most disastrous make?
5) Where is your favorite place to go fabric shopping?
6) What is your most used pattern?
7) Your most dreaded sewing task is...
8) And your favorite sewing task?
9) What is your favorite 'sewing entertainment'?
10) Printed or PDF?
11) What sewing machine do you use?
12) Do you have any other hobbies?

Thank you all for taking part on my giveaway. The winner of last weeks giveaway is Jessica Z. Congratulations! :)

Have a great start to your week,

Sincerely StefSincerely,

Stef

Giraffe Love .:. Alt om Håndarbejde 05/2016 #107 // Giveaway closed

Bohemian Top - DIY (pattern from the Danish sewing magazine Alt om Håndarbejde 05/2016 #107)

Top im Bohemian Stil - selbst genäht (Schnitt aus dem dänischen Nähmagazin Alt om Håndarbejde 05/2016 #107, auf Deutsch erschienen bei Burda)

Boyfriend Jeans - very old (probably H&M?)

Sunglasses / Sonnenbrille - Prada*

Bag / Tasche - Michael Kors*

Lace up shoes / Schuhe - Gianvito Rossi*

Camera / Kamera - Panasonic Lumix DMC-G6 (new version*)

EN Okay, so I love giraffes... probably because I'm very tall, too? ;) I don't know. Hopefully I will see some giraffes in their natural habit soon, not just in the Berlin Zoo...

But let`s talk about this bohemian inspired top, shall we? The pattern is by a Danish sewing magazine called "Alt om Håndarbejde" (translated something like "desire for handcrafting") and as far as I know there is a French translation called "fait mains" and a German translation called "Lust auf Handarbeiten".
I found out about the German issue around May this year, I think and I really loved the patterns. Needless to say I had to try out a pattern. The one pattern that caught my eye was this bohemian inspired top (here you can see the full issue, the top is on page 21). This is usually not a style I go for, but something intrigued me on this pattern.
First things first: I really like a lot of the designs of this magazin, BUT... I'm not familiar with the sizing by now. I made this top one size smaller then the size chart suggested and it is still huge.
The instructions are very short (and without pictures), so the magazine is not quite for beginners. I think the instructions are even shorter then the instructions in the Burda style magazines.
I'm not fully happy with the size of the top, but I'll keep that in mind, when I'll sew another pattern. Their are a few on my sewing list by now.
Do you know this sewing magazine and have you tried a pattern of it yet? 
If you are not familiar with this sewing magazine, you can win the newest German issue (see picture below, sorry I just get my hands on the German one), you can flip through the issue here.
The giveaway is open for international readers over 18 years (underage person need the permission of their parents). To take part you just need to sent me an E-Mail with your address to sea.of.teal@gmx.de, the giveaway is open till Saturday Dec. 11th 2016, midnight MET. The winner will be picked randomly (excluding the jurisdiction of a court) and will be announced on Sunday Dec. 12th 2016. Good luck! 
Sincerely,

Stef

P.S.: This post is NOT sponsored.

DE Also, ich liebe Giraffen... vielleicht weil ich selbst so groß bin? ;) Ich weiß es nicht genau, aber ich hoffe sie bald in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung zu sehen und nicht nur im Berliner Zoo...
Nun Mal zu dem Top im Bohemian Stil. Der Schnitt ist aus der dänischen Nähzeitschrift "Alt om Håndarbejde" und es gibt davon eine französische Ausgabe ("fait mains") und eine deutsche Ausgabe ("Lust auf Handarbeiten" was, wie ich finde, furchtbar altbacken klingt).
Zum ersten Mal sah ich die deutsche Ausgabe "Lust auf Handarbeiten" im Mai, glaube ich und mir gefielen auf Anhieb viele Schnittmuster. Daher musste ich natürlich einen Schnitt probieren. Am besten gefiel mir dieses Top, obwohl es eigentlich nicht unbedingt meinem Stil entspricht, aber ich dachte ich probiere es Mal aus (hier kann man die Ausgabe durchblättern, das Top ist auf S. 21 abgebildet).
Als erstes muss ich sagen: ich mag immernoch sehr sehr viele Schnittmuster aus diesem Magazin, ABER... bisher komme ich noch nicht ganz mit der Größentabelle klar. Ich habe eine Kleidergröße kleiner genäht, als ich laut Größentabelle bräuchte und das Top ist noch immer viel zu groß. Ich muss mich mit der Größentabelle noch Mal auseinandersetzen, denn es stehen ein paar Schnitte aus verschiedenen Ausgaben auf meiner Nähliste.
Für Anfänger würde ich das Nähheft nicht unbedingt empfehlen, denn die Anleitungen sind sehr knapp gehalten, teilweise knapper als die im Burda style Magazin. Daher sollte man schon einige Näherfahrung mitbringen. Die Schnittbögen sind übrigens genauso "prall" gefüllt wie die von Burda style (siehe Bild unten), ist ja auch kein Wunder, da die deutsche Ausgabe von Burda verlegt wird.
Kennt Ihr das Nähmagazin "Lust auf Handarbeiten" bereits oder habt vielleicht sogar schon etwas daraus genäht? Wie sind Eure Erfahrungen?
Falls Ihr die Schnitte ausprobieren wollt, habt Ihr nun die Gelegenheit dazu. Ich verlose die aktuelle deutsche Ausgabe (siehe unten). Ihr könnt die dänische Ausgabe hier online durchblättern.
Das Gewinnspiel ist international, teilnehmen dürfen alle über 18 Jahren (Minderjährige benötigen die Erlaubnis Ihrer Eltern), der Rechtsweg ist ausgeschlossen.
Für die Teilnahme schickt mir bitte eine E-Mail mit Eurer Adresse an sea.of.teal@gmx.de. Das Gewinnspiel ist bis zum 11. Dezember 2016 um Mitternacht offen, der Gewinner/ die Gewinnerin wird ausgelost und von mir am 12. Dezember 2016 bekannt gegeben.
Viel Glück und liebe Grüße

Stef

P.S.: Dieser Beitrag ist NICHT gesponsored. 

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