Little doll

In the last three days I worked on a present for a little friend of F.
Two weeks ago she invited us at her birthday party, and I started to think at what kind of gift we could make her.
I don't like buy a toy just for, and I'm really not a fan about the "pink world" for little girls.
Usually we give books, but this time we don't know she and her family so much and we decide to not buy another Peppa Pig's book. We wanted to make something by ourselves.

I had a patter taken here, but make the doll's hair slightly different (I felt in love with these!).
And this is the result.

I sewed a doubleface dress with a beautiful japanese cotton fabric with small daisies paired with a red plain one.

For the jacket I used a light blue linen fabric, to make a contrast withe the red dress.
The doll's face is in Waldorf style.
And finally F. has give her a name: Emma.
Now we have only to pack her and make a birthday card!

...I think that with her red button in the hair she is simply cute!

The first!

So.

Here I am, with a new start.

I promised myself that this year I would have found time for working at some projects.

I don't know if I can do it and how much time I can dedicate to this blog's project, but I know that this was the right moment to start.

In this period I'm experimenting a lot with my sewing machine. This love for sewing is something that is growing slowly but intensly. My granmother was a seamstress, but I didn't care much about sewing until I got pregnant for the first time and, contemporarly, I found a super easy and cheap sewing machine and I bought it!

I started to sew little toys for my son, after I try to sew something for me. I also did a sewing classe for beginners to improve a little bit my skills. Then my job has stopped for a while my sewing activity.

But, you know, life is crazy and unpredictable.

My little passion for sewing was quietly sleeping and I got pregnant for the second time! And now it's exploding!

I have a lot of ideas in my mind, my to sew list is growing and everyday I discover an interesting blog or a new project on internet. Thanks to them, every time I learn a little more! I would like to recount here all these findings, as to write my little notebook of sewing.

And, of course, I would like to share my finished project.

Here is my last one, finished this night.

I was inspired by this great book!

But, instead of the Juggling balls, I made a series of little houses from this Ikea fabric for a baby boy (he's only four months!).

I hope he will enjoy it!

Ok. I think this is a good first post.
See you soon!