More projects...

I've felt inspired lately and I wanted to share with you some of the projects that I've finished.

For my son's birthday I decided to make him a bag for books, cars and beach toys to use during the weekends. I ended up using two famous Swedish Elephant fabrics, one from Svenskt Tenn and one from MAIRO. The shirt he made himself by using textile pens.

Since I still had some leftover pieces of the elephant fabrics (and some other fabrics in my leftover fabric box) I decided to also make a scarf for my daughter.

As a present my son decided to draw a portrait of his dad at one of dads T-shirts. I helped my son finishing it by embroidering the whole drawing with blue thread. The T-shirt quickly became a favorite.

While we were at it we decided to also make a soft animal for little brother's birthday. Again my oldest son did the drawing and I embroidered the lines. As you can see in the picture it is truly loved.

I changed the fabrics...

for the strings at the back of the apron and think it turned out better this way.

An apron to cook with joy

My interest for cooking has definitely increased since I moved to Italy.  Or rather, my interest for shopping food has increased.  It isn’t even possible to compare the feeling of going to the market with the feeling of going to the grocery store to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. At the market I don’t have to ask if something has been produced nearby. I now that the answer I will get is that the strawberries were picked  by his son and the eggs come from his grandmother. Rome is not a progressive city, but sometimes not changing the way of living for many years means that you are ahead of everyone else when they start looking backwards.

Anyway, with this great interest for food me and my husband just bought a new  mixer for our kitchen so we can make our own pasta and, listen to this, our on sausages. And now I thought it was time for a new apron as well. The idea comes from the book Zakka Sewing by Therese Laskey and Chika Mori. Most of the apron is made out of vintage linen. The textiles at the bottom of the picture will become the tying stripes of the apron.