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Release day! – Mickie Joggers

28 February 2020 Ingrid Comments 0 Comment

Sometimes you have these fabrics in your stash, you just don’t know what projects to use them for. Fabrics that you love, but never got a purpose. That’s what I had it with this fabric. After the Knipster sewing competition, it was in the goodie bag of Nooteboom Textiles. It is a thin denim look fabric with embroidered border design. I think it’s a really cool material! But not something I wear every day. I have often had nice ideas to process this gem, but it just never really happened. Until I saw the tester call from Petite Stitchery & co two weeks ago. They wanted to release a new…

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Refashioned recycled denim jacket by Sewingridd. Picture by Annelies Mol

#REFEBULOUS – Do it with Denim – Knipster Throwback

5 February 2020 Ingrid Comments 0 Comment

The #REFEBULOUS challenge that was hosted on Instagram this month by fellow Knipster candidate (also justified winner!) Marlies inspired me to write this blog after all. The purpose of the challenge is to inspire each other to reuse, renew, refashion, repair, recycle, you name it.
During the Knipster competition the 4th theme was: Do it with Denim. From used jeans I made a cropped jeans jacket from BurdaStyle: pattern 02/2010 # 109.

How to draw a skirt pattern to your own measurements, tutorial by Sewingridd

Create your own super simple (Christmas) skirt made to measure!

25 January 2020 Ingrid Comments 0 Comment

Merry Christmas everyone! Oh wait haha, that was a while ago, right?;) Yet today I want to take you back to that time, which is already a month ago. Namely, in this blog I will tell you how to draw a skirt to your own measurements, as I did for my Christmas outfit this year. I re-experienced how easy and effective that is, so I would like to share the method with you! Let’s do a little throwback to that time: Christmas was approaching quickly, so I decided to start thinking about my outfit. Oops, that caused me some stress, because I couldn’t really find something suitable in my wardrobe….

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Green Panter

14 January 2020 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

New year, new plans! Last year I bought a few fabrics that are somewhat trend sensitive, but which I had not yet used. That’s why I worked myself through my huge stock of pattern magazines last week, looking for nice patterns to use with those fabrics. And at the same time looking for potential basic patterns of course, like I mentioned in my previous post (more on that later). It was quite some work and I did not find suitable patterns for all the fabrics, but I still made some nice combinations that I can work with. As I wrote on Instagram, I can’t handle all the uncertainties of new…

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Happy Sew Year! – 2019 recap

6 January 2020 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

So, I don’t know about you, but my vacation is already over! I have been free for a week and a half and am going back to work today. At the start of the Christmas holidays I always have all kinds of plans, which mostly don’t work out as I imagined, because I was not as free as I thought, haha! Recognizable right? Yet the start of a new year is a good moment to look back. What has happened in the past year and what are the plans for the coming period? I found it so nice to see my overview from last year that I decided to make…

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Crafting my Sinterklaas Sweater

30 November 2019 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

Here in The Netherlands on 5 December (and the three weeks before) we celebrate ”Sinterklaas”. This is a festivity mainly for kids, but in my family (amongst many others) we love it too. Every year we buy presents for one other family member, craft something appropriate for that person to stuff the present in, and write a poem. It’s kinda hard to explain well, it mostly resembles Secret Santa. Point is: I updated my Christmas sweater to also suit ”Sinterklaas”. That way I prolonged the holiday season for this sweater!;) I’m sorry, the details on how I made this are not available in English (didn’t think you would like to…

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Free sewing pattern: Mica T-shirt by Laela Jeyne Patterns. Sewn by Sewingridd

Mica T-shirt (Free pattern)

15 November 2019 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

Do you know the term ‘’UFO’’? No, then I don’t intend spaceships. Online this term is often used to describe UnFinished Objects: Sewing projects in which you get distracted halfway and lay in the closet unfinished. I personally have a few UFOs laying around. Some of them even are a couple years old already. In most of those cases I gave up hope to ever finish them, because the result will probably not be worth it… The T-shirt I’m showing you today, was a UFO for a couple of months as well. Luckily for this one, it always was the plan to still finish it, but my rehousing and trip…

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Maple T-shirt Dress from Petite Stitchery & co sewn by Sewingridd

Release day! – Maple T-shirt dress

2 November 2019 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

I always find it really interesting to have a look behind the scenes of a company. As an outsider you often see little to none of the work that’s done before a product is delivered. There’s often soo much more to it than you think! That’s one of the reasons I like to test sewing patterns. This way you get involved in the development of a new product, and you get to see a little inside the company. Due to moving and my trip to Australia, I had not sewn in the last couple of months. I’m not even sure anymore what my last project was. I think the Marbella…

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Seamly Moto Sweatshirt sewn by Sewingridd

Black & Basic – Seamly Moto Sweatshirt

8 October 2019 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

So now I’m finally back on Dutch soil, and I’m completely unjetlagged after my trip to Australia, I finally have time to finish this blog! Because in the since past summer I made this nice black sweater! It is my own Moto Sweatshirt! I wanted to have this pattern ever since it was released, but I didn’t buy it until it was on sale (genuine Dutchie yes). It took another while before I started the project. But now it is finally here! For this summer I wanted to have some sweats to pull over a Tee when I’m cold. So I wanted basic sweatshirts, but nothing too boring! I tackled…

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Life update

24 August 2019 Ingrid Comments 1 comment

Hi I’m still alive! It’s been a while since my last post. Normally, I mainly write about my creations and sewing techniques, but I thought it might also be nice to give a little more insight in my life at this moment. So many things are happening and I do all kinds of fun things! Sewing Well… Since my boyfriend and I went on vacation in July, I barely had time to sew. I did a lot of fun things, so often my time was up before I realized. Many makes from before my vacation are waiting to be blogged, but haven’t yet. For example, I finally sewed the Seamly…

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