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It is celebration time over at  Sofiona Designs  because they are celebrating their one year anniversary. Looking at all the beautiful designs at Sofiona designs you cannot believe they only exist one year! Have a look at my Tide Halter Top , Tundra Crop Sweater , Starry Night PJs and Railway Joggers . For this special occasion I made a hack of the Moss Hooded Dress/top . There is also a giveaway during these celebrations, you will find more about that on the bottom of my post. The Moss Hooded Dress/Top is a sleeveless top or dress with a straight bottom. It has a beautiful V-shaped open back that has the option of a hood. It is quite a summery pattern and since fall/winter is setting in here I wanted to make a more fall-proof dress. Moss hack So what did I do? * I added a back pattern piece to create a closed back but maintained the beautiful V-shaped back (without the hood or drawstring) * I added long sleeves by creating dolman sleeves * I added ...

Celebration time at Sofilantjes *! You must have seen all the beautiful eximia sweaters that everybody made for this celebration week at Sofilantjes. Look at all the amazing fabric shops that are participating. Today is the giveaway at  Framalo  who is giving away 1 eximia sweater ! Go over to the Facebook page  of Framalo to find out what you need to do to win a free eximia sweater! Today I am showing you three more eximia sweaters with the beautiful fabric that I received from Framalo . I picked out the purple sparrows by Chat Chocolat , which is a very soft and beautiful sweat fabric that is nice and warm, so perfect for winter. For the girls I sewed two short eximia sweaters , which are perfect over dresses as you can see. It is just like a bolero but then a bit longer and warmer. I love the look of the sweater on top of a dress. It is just perfect to still wear the summer dresses but then with a nice warm sweater. For the cuffs and the neckband I used str...

This week I am part of the B est Homemade Christmas Toy Sewing Patters blog tour . This blog tour is hosted by Seams Sew Lo and is sponsored by Phat Quarters fabric and Seamingly Smitten (see the end of the post for the giveaway!). I am excited to be part of this tour and sewed two urban dolls for this blog tour. Our girls love them and have been carrying them around the house all day! I love sewing toys and stuffed animals. I have sewed quite a few  stuffed animals already, but these were mostly before my blog started. Sewing stuffed animals usually takes a bit more time, but the result is always so rewarding. Our kids just love it when I make toys or stuffed animals for them! For this tour I sewed the  Urban Jungle Crew  by  Petit a Petit + Family . You have probably already seen one or two. It is a paid pattern that makes big stuffed animals (big as in 76 cm (!) long). You can see in the pictures how cute the big animals are. They are almost as tall as...

I was also one of those 22 ladies that went on a sewing weekend last weekend. You might have seen already several posts from the other ladies of our awesome weekend away in Belgium. Read until the end of the post to take a chance in winning a goodiebag! As you can see many different garments were made. I made 5 in total, 2 for our girls, one gift and 2 for myself. I usually sew a lot for our girls, but not so much for myself. This was a great opportunity to spend some time on sewing for myself. One of the dresses that I made for our eldest is the Azure Party Dress by Ainslee Fox . I really love the dress, it is a party dress for sure, add some tule underneath and the party dress is complete. I made size 3 and it just fits perfectly. Our girl loves the dress with the robots, but then again she loves any dress in which she can twirl and she sure can in this dress. The dress is made from cotton and you can do some color blocking with all the different pattern pieces on the top pa...