Organic Grey Velour Joni Dress

 What a wonderful book, Tilly and the Buttons's STRETCH, what a great pattern the Joni is, and what great fabric from Stoff & Still.
Seeing my massive boobs in the pics I don't know if this apropiate to work in my school, but it feels great and cool (temperature like). I am gonna repeat both, fabric and pattern, although I am proud to announce I have convinced myself of not doing them together. 

Well, nothing special to report here... the neckline is tricky, mine came up looking good, but it is bulky inside, and I used a really thin cotton jersey, and applied it no as the instructions tell us, but as a facing, and then encaging all seam allowances inside a 2cm ruleau, hand sewn to the wrong side of the dress, invisible. No big ugly zig zags for me in a dress like this. Too sporty, I think.

The same for the sleeves and dress bottom, all hand sewn. 
I copied the pattern to tissue paper minus the 1.5 cm seam allowance included. I basted and tried it on to fit (it was perfect at first trial) before machine- stitched as advices. No overlock. No iron. 

For the rest, I followed the instructions, which are great. 
I think the twist in the middle front (gorgeous design hit) is too high in most of the pictures I had seen of it, and the waist tended to be very high. I decided to lengthen the soulder seams 1.5cm. Not too much, it could become too open, but this is a dress to show cleavage, do not try to make it modest. 

I made it some 5cm shorter, becasue my fabric was scarce and the pattern too long, too. In fact, I pulled out with 1.5m, hahaha! It is a wide fabric. Did I say it is a wonderful fabric? And they sell it dark blue, and it is even better. (In a mid day excursion to the shop in Goterborg, I had a weak moment and let my boyfriend pick up the colour. How sweet of me)

Well, it is a great dress, maybe not very practical for work. I plan to make a black jersey version as a night summer dress.

Red and Coral Tape Carpet

A fellow knitter gave me the idea of finally doing the carpet I needed for the 1st floor outdoors terrace door. Gather stitch, big recycled cotton jersey tape, the coral one with some lycra. I bought it in a local shop, where they had a limited number of same colour tape, only three in red. I choosed the coral to make a combination but still getting a RED carpet, even when it had some lycra in it, being it recycled. 

I used 12 mm circular kneedles an dit was a very fast but very unconfortable knitting project. In fact, both my needles BROKE in the process, the tips of them. First one, then another. I was flipping!
Well, I finished in almost 2 months, knitting only the weekends, and not for long, because it was even painful in my back, arms and hands, the bigger the worst. But it was nice to go fast. So, a good, practical and gorgeous project. I love it. 

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