Graduation dress - Part 1

Abschlusskleid - Teil 1

I'm back ! I really want to apologize for my abscence the last four weeks. I've been really busy with school and final exams, but at last they're all over. Now I'm afraid of getting my marks back, I was really nervous while doing the exams. 

Ich bin wieder da ! Ich möchte mich dafür entschuldigen, dass ich so lange nicht da war. Ich war sehr viel mit Schule und prüfungen beschäft, aber endlich sind auch die vorbei. Jetzt habe ich Angst dafür, meine Ergebnisse wieder zurückzukriegen da ich während die Prüfungen sehr nervös war.

Finally I have time to start with a big (at least for me) sewing project. The end is near, in less than a month I'll graduate from my school and I need a dress to wear to the party. The last thing I want is to wear the same dress somebody else wears on that night and I like to sew, so I decided to buy a pattern and make my own, I just couldn't decide what kinf of dress I wanted to make. 

I stumbled upon this one for inspiration and fell in love with it  :

 

Jetzt habe ich aber endlich Zeit, mit ein (für mich) grosses Nähprojekt anzufangen. Das Ende ist nah, in weniger als ein Monat habe ich meinen Abschlussfeier und dazu brauche ich auch ein Kleid. Ich möchte aber nicht etwas genau so wie die anderen auch tragen. Da ich gerne Nähe habe ich mich ausgedacht das ich mit einem Schnittmuster auch selber was nähen könnte, Ich wusste nur nicht genau, was für ein Kleid. Dann habe ich das Kleid gefunden als Inspiration und mich sofort verliebt :

1940s Red Velvet Evening Dress

With the help of my mother I found a nice sewing pattern which looks a bit similiar to the dress above. It's the Burda 7572 pattern, I'll be using the pattern of the dress on the right (A)

Mithilfe meiner Mutter habe ich ein schönes Schnittmuster ausgesucht was sich mit dem Kleid oben ähnelt. Das Schnittmuster heisst : Burda 7572 und ich werde das Schnittmuster vom Kleid auf der rechten Seite (A) benutzen.

Here is a picture of the fabric I will use for the dress. It feels like velvet and it is very soft on the skin. It was hard to capture the right colour, it's dark/olive green.

So sieht der Stoff der ich für mein Kleid benutzen werde, aus. Es war schwer, die richtige Farbe auf dem Foto zu bekommen, die Farbe ist dunkel/Olivengrün.

Today I made a sketch of the dress of how I want it to look like, I really hope it will turn out that way !

Heute habe ich eine Skizze davon gemacht, wie ich gerne möchte das das Kleid aussehen wird. Ich hoffe das es gelingt, das Kleid so aussehen zu lassen !

 

With love, Jip.

As the days get colder ...

The weather has been very cold and rainy lately. We have had a few hot summer days, but this year the summer wasn't as hot as the last few years. All clothing stores are selling their fall collections already and it is almost impossible to buy summer clothing. So in a week or two, it will be weather again to wear long-sleeved dresses and cardigans and tights. Yay ^^.

 

 

The leaves are still green but in no-time they will be brown, red and yellow .. I actually look forward to that !

Cardigan - thrifted

Dress - Orsay

Stockings - Zeeman (Holland)

Shoes - thrifted

As you may be able to see, my shoes were completely wet. For those who can't see it, here is a more clearer picture. :). They are at the moment my favourite shoes. When I went on vacation, the sole was broken and I couldn't wear them anymore .. But as soon as I got home, I brought them to the shoemaker and after one week I was able to wear them again. Speaking of shoes, I still have to buy a pair of boots for the winter.

And as you can see on the pictures, my hair looks kind of red. My hair is actually blonde but I dyed it many times since I was 10 years old. Black, red, purple, Blue, you name it ;). I am growing out my hair at the moment. in March it was cut off chinlength, so it has grown a bit. I really do want it blonde again.

with love, Jip.

Fleamarkets, dresses and Bags ...

Today I went to a flea market in Gronau, a city near the village where I live. I found two dresses and a vintage handbag.

This dress was the first one that I saw. It is made of a chiffon and polyester blend and has so much cute details ! I fell in love with the collar and the pieces of fabric on the sleeves. It has a print on it with very much flowers in pink and several shades of blue. Altough it is not vintage, it seems retro to me and due to the fact that is is older than a year or 2, (almost) nobody will wear it anymore.. The pictures my sister took in the first place turned out very blurry for some reason, so I decided to grab my duct-tape-dummy and put the dresses on her/him/it :).


This dress was a 1950's/early 1960's coat.
I sewed the bottom - from the last button to the hemline - so it couldn't fall 'open' anymore and could be a wearable dress. The sleeves wore too big for me so I shortened them. And for someone with like no sewing experience I think I did a pretty good job.


And this is the handbag I found. I had to buy it.
It is made out of straw and it has a metal zipper which has the word 'zipp' on it.
The inside is as adorable as the outside. It is lined with blue-yellow striped fabric and it has
two small pockets. I think it is from the 1930's
or 1940's.