In the town of Suzhou, China, there is a factory that is making hand embroidered art. We were invited to take a tour with a guide. I was very impressed to see the women handembroidered paintings in beautiful silk. They did not draw anything on the fabric before embrodiering it, they only used a picture in [...]
I am off on vacation this week, my first trip to China. I am in a city by the name of Suzhou, an hour away from Shanghai. I am very lucky as I had a wonderful guided tour at the Silk Factory. A guide took us on a tour, showing the complete development from worm tosilk. First picture is the small silkworms, we [...]
To have an overlock machine is the best thing in the world, that is because it is faboulous to create quick projects. I made a dress out of a knitted fabric (second fabric from Stockholm) within an hour. I used the Husqvarna Viking® Huskylock s15 for the construction. My daughter took the picture of me in the finished dress, [...]
The skirt I did sew in Greece, is finished. I did make a few additional details to it. Two rows of braid that I stitched in plase using the Husqvarna Viking Transparent Foot B. To get it in the exact correct position, I marked lines, usign a fabric marker then used a double faced fusible stabiliser [...]
Last week, we went to Stockholm to see a Fashion Exhibition. Before we went home we did get the chance to visit a Husqvarna Viking® sewing machine store that also sells fabric. I ended up buying five fabrics! The brown fabric, is what I have now started to sew. I did decorate the fabric to make [...]
