Strawberry dress for spring : Project Run&Play, spring 2014 sew-along.

In fact, at 37 degree Celsius here shouldn't count  as a spring, I guess. We are embrace early summer and realize that the temperature may shoot up to over 40 degree this year. What I can do is sewing the new dresses and tops for my girl in my little sewing corner to make this summer more colorful. And my girl spend a lot of her times in our village's garden. Especialy on her beloved tree. Can we count this as her favorite place?

I bought "Sew Classic Clothes for girl" the awesome book by Cottage Mama for many months ago. And now I modified classic A-line with round yoke to be a bubble dress with round yoke. The dress was inspired by the strawberry, which I think very suit with this season.

The strawberry bubble dress

The book is great. I was so stumble to understand armhole instructions process at first. But once I got the idea, the result was came out so perfect. I love when the clothes I made have done so neat like this!

Strawberry on the tree

I still made almost of the girl's dress in flare out or twirly style. Because she is a "full of energy type" girl. Narrow A-line skirt will forbid her from jumping and tree climbing which are her favorite activity.

Daddy did comment that the dress may look like a watermelon dress instead of strawberry... but my intention in the first place is to make a strawberry dress. Even the nearly 40 degree temperature can not make me see it as a watermelon. (But I want one for sure, who wouldn't want a slice of watermelon in the hot day?)

I made it in size 4T. With the small figure of my girl, it still has roomy to grow in the dress which is perfect! And maybe my next project would be a watermelon inspired outfit. what do you think?

Thank you for stopping by. I really love to hear from you!

Love,

Penya

Up cycle rabbit stencil-beachy boatneck : Flip for March and PR&P

Hello all!

My blog seems to inactive lately since I had developed a deep relationship with dear toilet due to my morning sickness. However, the symptoms are gone! I have a reunion with my sewing machine and here is the result.

The beach boatneck pattern is simple but  classy. I love the neckline which wide and comfortable. I use my t-shirt as a material for this project.

The girl is so small that I cut the pattern one size smaller and used woven fabric to created a band at hem. The finished dress is nice but I didn't stop at that point.

To give some fun, I let the girl did a freezer paper stencil for her own dress. This is my first stencil experience. Now I know why everyone love it!

Now the girl not only happy but also pround of the dress that she was co-created with mom. This dress is sure to be worn a lot during this summer and go to the zoo as well.

Thank you for stopping by. I really love to hear your comment. Do you like the stencil? Or prefer the plain one at first?

P.S. We are so proud to be one of Father's fantastic five  from flip this pattern series of Mar. Thank you so much Daddy! 

Penya

PR&P sew along : Week #3: Refashion Challenge

Wow! Week#3 of Project Run&Play's theme is Refashion Challenge, which I happy accepted :). I usually did refashion for my girl especially for the knit project because I can not easily find the place to buy knit here. Online stores now have a lot of pretty knits but the shipping cost to Thailand could cost me arms and legs. So, refashion is my best friend.

Refashion: Pippa peplum top & V-neck cardigan

This time, I made two tops for the girl. The first is a sweet Pippa peplum top from SeeKateSew which I made from t-shirt size XL.

Refashion Pippa Peplum top

I love how it turned out! It looks like something I would bought from store. Normally, the girl doesn't like to wear white-tee but with the girly skirt part + bow sequin + gold trim, this top can win her.

Girly twirly little skirt blown her mind

I made the Pippa peplum in size 4T and it fits her perfectly. I'm sure this top will get worn very often.

My Pippa Peplum and the little bear

I've also made the V-neck cardigan from Peek-a-boo from my old cardigan. The winter has already gone from Bangkok and this cardi is expected to wear in air-condition room through the year. So, I made it in the bigger size to leave the room for growing up.

Refashion V-neck cardigan

I decorated my little v-neck cardigan with lace collar and trim. To get the girl's attention, I also selected the flowers buttons to suit her taste.

Refashion V-neck cardigan with lace collar and trims.

After we finished our photo shots. The girl was still wearing her new top to play around. I've got the true shot of her while she was playing. As much as she love girly details on her outfits, the girl still has little monkey attitude inside. Oh! I love this pat of her.

The girl's natural post.

As I told you I usually did refashion, I would rank my works here for example.

My top 3 refashion projects which I like most....

First, the Nituna Jacket from old blanket and tablecloth.

2nd, The up-cycled recess raglan tee

3rd, My tablecloth mullet skirt

You can see a lot more fascinating refashion works which post in PR&P blog this week. The designers works are awesome!

Hope you enjoy all these. I'm so happy you are stopping by and please don't hesitate to leave your comment.

Thank you!

Piglet (Reversible) Romper For Sewalong @ PR&P, Week2

PR&P, Week2 : Let's go to the movies!
This theme made me realize how long that I have not seen any movie. Think about my favorite one was come up with something like Lord of the ring, Star war or others 10 years ago-movies. Which I'm not sure the girl would happy with the outfit inspired by any of them or not.
So, I designed to ask the girl which character she like most. Here the answer is from her favorite story, the pink little pig from 100 acre wood, PIGLET!

Cottage mama's Shortcake romper for Piglet

This piglet romper is made with The cottage mama Shortcake reversible romper 's pattern. I thought silhouette of this romper would comply with piglet outfit.

Do I look like Piglet?

 I want to make easy to go outfit which the girl can wear everyday not the special dress. So I didn't make Piglet costume. Just bring color and strips to give personality for this romper.

Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger and me playing in the 100 acre wood...

The girl was happy with her Piglet romper and I hope one day she will enjoy to go to the movie with me again! Her first experience with movie was when she went to planetarium with me... It was a bad experience for her since she was scream and believe that the comet will fallen to her head. (unfortunately the planetarium program was about the comet impact that day)

The pattern is intend to make as a reversible romper and I did another side in coordinate color with the cat applique at front.

Reversible shortcake romper

Reversible Shortcake romper "Piglet and the cat"

I like this side with the applique but the girl prefers Piglet side. At least we both happy with the result.

Revers side with strip and cat applique

 The only inconvenience about this romper is the girl can not go to toilet by herself. It needs adult supervise to take off or tide up the bow tide at the shoulder.

Happy ending!

 Well, which side of the romper that you like most?? :)
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My tee to girl dress refashion and hot springs trip

If you have any Asian friend you may heard about the Chinese zodiac which relates each year to an animal according to a 12-year cycle. This traditional spread through several East Asian and South East Asian countries including Thailand. The next year, 2014's sign  is the horse. So in this last month of the year, you may find many gift and apparel presents the sign of this animal.

My Horse tee to the girl's dress

Including this horse t-shirt. The horse illustrate on the tee was designed by H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. This is a famous new year present. I already have my own in another color, so I designed to refashion this tee for my daughter.

It said" The horse bring joyful in the year of horse"

I use the pattern of the recess raglan tee from See Kate Sew and lengthen the body to create a dress. The sleeves was self-drafted. The sleeves were made by using my old knit strip dress ,the collar and the cuffs were made with my age yellow cardigan.  Then I got this dress for the girl.

The girl wear this dress to visit The Chae Son National park, Lamlang in the northern part of Thailand. This national park is famous for it lovely hot springs. The favorite activities here are including hot spring bath, trekking, massage and hot spring egg boiling!

Ready for hot spring egg boiling!

There are the hot springs observe area to wander around. The hot springs in this area are too hot to soak but it suits for boil the egg. You can buy  a bamboo basket with eggs or two to soak in the hot spring and then enjoy the heavenly soft boil egg with the jelly like yoke.

the path to the hot springs area

 We bought 2 baskets of eggs to boil there.

Boiling eggs

The recommendation is to wait for 17 minutes for the soft boiling eggs. We were enjoy the scenic surrounding during that.

The pavilion over there is for massage.  

There are private hot spring pool in the small stone huts for enjoy hot spring bath with the massage station near by. This place is such a heaven.

My girl is too young for hot springs bath. She was enjoy herself by the riverside which the hot springs merge to water fall and turn out to be a lovely luxe-warm water stream.

And enjoy hot spring eggs then.

If you have a change to visit northern part of Thailand, I would recommend the national park. It's awesome joy!

Thank you for stopping by. Sorry that this post is more like travel diary than the sewing blog as usual. LOL.
Hope you enjoy it! I really love to hear from you.

Refashion : Tee to the Hangout Hoodie

Hi all, seem like the entire sewing planet is countdown to winter and wonderful festival. I would keen to put my needle on the very stunning winter projects which pop around but the weather here is 33 degree Celsius... I would better sew another tee-shirt or sleeveless top for the girl and myself. But I really love to see all the winter outfits! Maybe one or two cardigans would practical for my girl.

Well, I will stop moaning and start sharing my refahion projects as my intention. This is the Hangout hoodie from Peekaboo pattern shop which I was done since Amy's sew-along in August and you can see some of hoodies featured here. I didn't have a change to write about it on my blog till now and this is a good time to link it with FLIP these pattern series of November.

Re-fashion Hangout-hoodie

I used tee-shirt for the main part of Hoodie, added my leftover pre-ruffled fabrics, printed knit from my last project and ruffled trim to give the girly details at sleeves and the hood.

Before

After my refashion, can't help to add the eyes for that cat!

I didn't alter main shape of the hangout hoodie much. Just did flare out a bit with the tunic length, lined up the hood and added ruffled trim. The pattern instructions are easy to follow. I've only little struck when try to finish the planket.(mostly because I didn't cut the fabric accurately)

The pre-ruffled sleeves and hood.

This is the first project which I use pre-ruffled fabric for sleeves. the second is this top for project run&play sew-along. Still have plenty of these fabrics left, any idea to use ruffled fabrics would be nice :)

Hankout hoodie tunic

Thank you for stopping by, I would love to hear from you. :)

My sewing for Fall 2013

Technically, Bangkok, my hometown doesn't has Fall. We do have a marvelous summer, a monsoon with flood and a tiny bit of winter which the temperature may get down to 25 degree Celsius for a week if you are in the capital city.

We have a plenty of summer, indeed! So, sewing for fall and winter here is like a daydream for me. Accept, we can have a vacation somewhere else. Then I've got the good reasons for fall sewing. Yay!!

These are my sewing for fall.

Red riding Nituna Jacket

1. The Figgy's Nituna Jacket was in the amazing bundle sale, Sew Fab. The pattern is cute and I decided to made it by up-cycled old red fleece blanket and lined up with my floral flea-market 2nd hand tablecloth. The lace which trims around tablecloth hem was perfectly being pretty hem for the hood.

Her signature post during this trip, the rabbit post!

2. The reversible A-line dress

3. Owl sweatshirt from my crop top up-cycling. Easy perject with lovely result.

4. Leopard hoodie scarf.

5. The Heart Jumper I made for Project Run&Play sewalong. Using W Pants from Blank slate pattern .

That are what I made for fall trip. Which one do you like most? :)