Merry Christmas!

This is Emma in 2007, she was then 2,5 years old. Time really flies, she is not a baby anymore! The temperature in Finland is freezing at the moment (-25 degrees Celcius!!) and I just finished wrapping the last presents. I still need to do some sewing today, but otherwise everything is ready. Christmas can come to our home.

Merry Christmas

Hyvää joulua

Feliz Navidad

God Jul

Frohe Weichnahten

Buon Natale

Häid Pühi

Joyeux Noël

!

More flags

I am still missing Iceland and Aland flags. Or actually the original flag bunting (my mom's) does not have Aland flag, but since we have family in Aland island, I decided to add the flag as well. I am afraid this won't be finished on time! Doesn't matter, we are not going to spend Christmas at home, so there is no pressure to get any decorations ready. I still have a few Christmas presents to make, so this project is the last on the list.

Dress alterations

I liked this dress plain, but just to please Emma, I added a petticoat and red satin belt. Neither has been attached to the dress, so she can wear whatever combination of the three as she wishes. Although I do hope she wears the dress itself anyway! The petticoat is made from an old bedsheet, some white tulle and vintage lace. I still need to adjust the petticoat since it is too loose, as you can see from the last photo. It is already a bit too low...

 

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Christmas dress

I am not quite sure what Emma is doing in this picture, but it has something to do with princesses. Perhaps a royal wave? And an itchy arm pit? Haha, she got mad at me when I asked her about that. Anyway, I made this dress one night, when Emma announced that she would not be going to her kindergarten's Christmas party in a skirt, she wanted a dress. Ok. I made her one. The fabric is from Ikea and I only wish I would have had more of it, since I wanted to cut the skirt part in bias. It would have looked much better! Anyway, Emma loves it and that is what really counts.

The dress is from this book:

At first I was a bit disappointed in this book, since it only contained a few variations of some basic patterns. However, the basic patterns in the book are very versatile and I have learnt a lot by just glancing through it.The instructions were very clear and patterns easily traceable. By the way, my book sections is still missing a lot of my books, but I am just trying to think a better way to showcase them. Hopefully sometime soon :)

Not very good photos, but you can probably tell why Emma likes the dress :)

Christmas decorations

The picture quality is rubbish, but I hope you do not mind! Also, this should have been shown in Independence day, but I only got the idea then and had no time to implement it. This flag bunting is made from scraps of old linen sheet and jeans.

I am not completely satisfied with this one, since it is a bit dull. I want more colours :) In my childhood, my mother had a bunting with all nordic flags and that is what I want as well. I already started cutting the fabric scraps, I have all the needed colours!