Design stealing.. :P

Today I went to a store to look at some clothes and I saw these two dresses that I liked quite a lot. So I went to try them on and I thought I would take some pictures so I could maybe make them myself because they cost 35 euros each from this store... :D

First Post.

This is my first post.

I am going to post all the projects I am working on at the moment.

I am trying to learn Danish. My mother is from Denmark and I was just there for two weeks so I got inspired. :D I could always understand pretty much everything in normal conversation but I need to learn to speak.

I also did German for four years and got the Zertifikat, but now I have stopped official lessons. I am trying to read the third Harry Potter book in German. "Harry Potter undder Gefangene von Askabaaaan"! Haha it's proving quite difficult since I never studied my vocabulary very well... :P

I am also involved in an amateur video team called VK (Vrasmena Kounoupidia, which is Greek for "Boiled Cauliflowers"). We started at school, doing a video presentation of a Greek poem called "Tou Nekrou Aderfou" for class. You can watch it here but it is in Greek. :( Anyway, at the moment we are working on a video based on a poem called "Pali Methismenos Eisai" (="You are drunk again") by Kostas Varnalis. We are working hard collecting material for it.

Furthermore, I volunteer for www.librivox.org recording free audiobooks. The books we use are published before 1923 which means the copyright is expired and they are in the public domain. I just recorded two chapters for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and am planning on recording a chapter of Huckleberry Fin, although it's quite hard.

Lastly, I love sewing and doing things with my hands so I have loads of unfinished projects in that category. :D

This is a jacket for my mothers' birthday. I have to finish it soon!

Then there is a very simple skirt. I wanted to try out this (very simple) pattern I drafted myself and I was thinking of putting various different colored buttons to close it in the back. :D

Um... then there is a dress for my friend Eleni that I have to hem (when she comes over next time)

Next is this sweater that I have been "working on" since 2006! :D I finished this piece which is the front one weekend when I was watching Project Runway episodes literally from the moment I woke up till I went to bed! :D

In Denmark I got this thing with pegs that makes a result similar to knitting. I don't know what it is I am making but I wanted to try it out!



















I am also knitting... something out of an old t-shirt that I cut into a long strip.



















I found these nice patterns for knitting (sort of like Fair Isle) so I thought I would knit some mittens.



















Now I also want to sew these shorts and top from the amazing magazine Patrones that I found in the library in Denmark! Unfortunately I don't have the pictures, but here are the technical drawings: