Day of DIY # 67. Crop cardigan.

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Here's my most recent venture into making clothes for myself. I wanted to make a cropped cardigan for the winter when I use a lot of high waist skirts. This is my contribution for Husmorsskolans Syförening this week. Cue lots of pics!

We had nice weather that weekend, perfect for taking pictures :)

The petrol-ish blue, the brown and the light green parts are Sandnes Mini Duett. It's 55% cotton and 45% merino wool. Super soft! The purple and light blue is Sandnes Mandarin Naturell. 100% cotton for that one.

The pattern is a self composed raglan from the bottom up that I cut open and made into a cardigan. Have you noticed I like raglan?

It is a bit wide at the top but I had already cut it open when I realised it so it'll just have to do. If I wear something like a shirt under it's okay.

I made two purls in the middle of each arm and one on each side of the decrease marks. The top button is from my grand mothers sewing box and the other eight are thrifted. Same as on this and this.

The pics are taken at our local outdoors museum :)

I tried to step out of the box with my posing lol. "Take one of me pretending to climb the wall!" The skirt is one of my favorite thrift finds (it was like 20 SEK and can be worn in the waist or on the hip). The stockings are from Lindex I think. They remind me of tapirs <3 The white shirt is another thrift find. Shoes from Ecco. (wooow an outfit AND knit post! ;)

More creative posing :P

I'm finishing a smaller project (and a non-raglan at that!) but right after I'm done I'm making another one like this :) With some changes. That's the nice thing about making more than one of stuff.

Pics taken by the ever so awesome bf.

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Foodz.

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In case you didn't know I love veggies. I mean there are veggies in all the colors of the rainbow. I could make a rainbow out of vegetables. Think about it. Here are some meals that I just had to take a pic of.

 The bf made me this plate. I was pretty excited! ;) It's salad (with lots of white wine vinegar since he knows me that one), croutons and beans + red onion, olive oil and spices. Yum!

One evening while the bf was working I made my favorite soup: tom kah! Here's the recipe I use. It's with chicken but I've made it with other stuff (shrimp, crawfish, fish, quorn). This one had the latter. Eat with lots of coriander and lime juice mmm...

Experiments with deep frying :O Veggie balls made with cooked potatoes, a little bit of onion, red lentils and big white beans (no idea if it's called that in english lol). The sauce is vinegar cooked red onion, dill and creme fraiche. Proper friday meal! :)

No veggies here but pancakes with mashed banana and grated chocolate kinda gets me excited too ;)

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Green leopard.

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I guess I got caught in some kind of leopard-mania. It's just so easy and fun! I think I know one person at least that will like this version ;)

This is two coats of Sally Hansen - Grass Slipper (love it, but not the stainage lol), spots with China Glaze - Starboard and outlines with A England - Camelot. + SV. (heard this lot before? ;)

I should make leopard manis all winter. 8)

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Day of DIY # 66. Wire bowl.

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Here's my second wire craft :)

I had this picture in my head of a little basket and just went ahead with that.

It's cool to see it grow into something.

Ta-dah!

A functional basket.

From thought to finished product. Booyah!

Also pretty cool that it only took me 2 hours to make. I can see myself making a lot of these. Perhaps I'll even decorate the next one :)

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Changes.

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Sometimes you just can't make up your mind... Unless you try different solutions.

I went from this.

To this.

And finally into this.

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Purple leopard.

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Since I made an all blue leopard I carried on the rainbow and made a purple one too.

The base is two coats of China Glaze - Light As Air. The spots are Gabrini - M110. And outlines with A England - Camelot (as usual). Plus SV.

And sun!

Next up is probably a yellow + orange. Or perhaps orange + red. We shall see!

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One of those weekends.

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Life. Pics.

Friday and pride parade and wondering why street crossings can't look like this all the time.

Saturday and medieval market with horses.

Buying puuurdy red linen (impossible to photograph tho) and getting it wrapped in wax paper.

Two favorites in one pic.

Sunday and shopping craft supplies with the bf. Elephant wire, round wire x 3, tools.

Great weekend despite my wryneck (that's finally returning to normal woop woop!) :) Too bad I got a cold instead -.-

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