<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494</id><updated>2012-02-13T00:55:26.669+01:00</updated><category term='pants'/><category term='hat'/><category term='necklace'/><category term='skirt'/><category term='patterns'/><category term='dress'/><category term='lace'/><category term='cardigan'/><category term='blog'/><category term='crocheted jewelry'/><category term='etsy'/><category term='earrings'/><category term='embroidery'/><category term='lady lina'/><category term='japanese craft books'/><category term='welcome'/><category term='bag'/><category term='top'/><category term='perfect cut'/><category term='Burda'/><category term='flowers'/><category term='scarf'/><category term='crochet'/><category term='sewing'/><category term='knit'/><category term='quilting'/><title type='text'>Lina's Land</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>38</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-8478778828003462911</id><published>2012-02-10T13:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-10T13:04:49.792+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='welcome'/><title type='text'>Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;  &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;  &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;  &lt;w:HyphenationZone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;  &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt;  &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt;  &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;  &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;  &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;  &lt;w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt;   &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt;   &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt;   &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt;   &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt;  &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;  &lt;w:BrowserLevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt; &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt;&lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; &lt;w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"&gt; &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt;&lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;&lt;style&gt; /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Did I said, in my &lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2012/02/blue-scarf-and-beret.html" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;last post&lt;/a&gt;, that I haven't muchopportunities to wear my hats and scarves here in &lt;a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Dubrovnik" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Dubrovnik&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Well, I was sooo wrong. It was&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;snowing lastnight. Only 2cm of snow, but cold enough for accessories fashionshow. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3ntC1rDW__A/TzUE6BEBZeI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/lCcpNC27X4k/s1600/1328825655m100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3ntC1rDW__A/TzUE6BEBZeI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/lCcpNC27X4k/s320/1328825655m100.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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Let It Snow! Let It Snow!'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3ntC1rDW__A/TzUE6BEBZeI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/lCcpNC27X4k/s72-c/1328825655m100.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4969381802117187605</id><published>2012-02-03T21:36:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-03T21:36:39.155+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scarf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hat'/><title type='text'>Blue scarf and beret</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B9am-nEpcJU/TyxCdaxBMJI/AAAAAAAAAfw/EEWRmqbRyf0/s1600/IMG_1345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B9am-nEpcJU/TyxCdaxBMJI/AAAAAAAAAfw/EEWRmqbRyf0/s320/IMG_1345.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This is&amp;nbsp; a scarf&amp;nbsp; I knitted in December before my trip to Zagreb.&lt;br /&gt;Here in Dubrovnik&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp; have not much opportunities to wear hats and scarves. &lt;br /&gt;So,the trip was great opportunity for me&amp;nbsp; to wear all&amp;nbsp; scarves,hats and berets I have. And of course to show some new.&lt;br /&gt;The pattern is &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;Easy Lace Stole by Arlene's World of Lace &lt;/span&gt;and it is available as a &lt;a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-lace-stole"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6fa8dc;"&gt;free Ravelry download&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;Measurements: 25cm wide and 180cm long.&lt;br /&gt;Needles size: 5mm &lt;br /&gt;Yarn : (100g) 2 balls of Sportivo "Teteks AD"-Tetovo&amp;nbsp; (50g-210m)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bL3xtCyLnaw/TyxCv7LLM6I/AAAAAAAAAf4/Ff78_xK4JqM/s1600/IMG_1651.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bL3xtCyLnaw/TyxCv7LLM6I/AAAAAAAAAf4/Ff78_xK4JqM/s320/IMG_1651.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also made&amp;nbsp; matching beret. Pattern for beret is the easiest I found somewhere on the net.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBtSWD8QtsE/TyxDDRaYMyI/AAAAAAAAAgA/LhiXwWyV6bI/s1600/myts43b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBtSWD8QtsE/TyxDDRaYMyI/AAAAAAAAAgA/LhiXwWyV6bI/s320/myts43b.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I added some flowers and embellished them with silver seed beads.&lt;br /&gt;Hook size: 4mm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OzGVyc8osyw/TyxDPdMP2CI/AAAAAAAAAgI/25UHr06_3Xs/s1600/IMG_1633.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OzGVyc8osyw/TyxDPdMP2CI/AAAAAAAAAgI/25UHr06_3Xs/s320/IMG_1633.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a quick project and I was so happy wearing&amp;nbsp; new scarf and beret, even it was not cold as I expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-4969381802117187605?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/4969381802117187605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=4969381802117187605&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4969381802117187605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4969381802117187605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2012/02/blue-scarf-and-beret.html' title='Blue scarf and beret'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B9am-nEpcJU/TyxCdaxBMJI/AAAAAAAAAfw/EEWRmqbRyf0/s72-c/IMG_1345.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-6303238596161607545</id><published>2012-01-18T21:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T21:27:06.268+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><title type='text'>See The World Through Pink Glasses</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Well, I suppose, I have to apologize for neglecting my blog and few readers, almost a year.&lt;br /&gt;It was a very busy year for me.Among day work and complete reconstruction of our apartment, moving to another apartment and then back home, I had no time for sewing.So, I thought there isn't reason to blog. I wasn't right.&lt;br /&gt;My first intention was to practice English (writing), and after tree years I am still bad writer.&lt;br /&gt;So, from today I will write whatever I want and know.&lt;br /&gt;I hope, of course, with minimum mistakes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Today I made two Treasury lists for &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/LadyLina?ref=si_shop" style="color: magenta;"&gt;Etsy&lt;/a&gt;. Few gift ideas for Valentine's Day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjA4MzAzMHwxODQ5MzM1ODE5/lovepink-and-felt" style="color: magenta;"&gt;For her&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; soft, cozy, cute pink accessories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zxawu-aYclM/TxcorC8kpvI/AAAAAAAAAfg/V967p01-dWA/s1600/pink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zxawu-aYclM/TxcorC8kpvI/AAAAAAAAAfg/V967p01-dWA/s320/pink.jpg" width="307" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NjA4MzAzMHwxODUyMzE5NDU2/for-him?index=0" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;For him&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; more serious, but beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A3lsErGuRTw/Txco458fxZI/AAAAAAAAAfo/wVSu7kw93Ec/s1600/black.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A3lsErGuRTw/Txco458fxZI/AAAAAAAAAfo/wVSu7kw93Ec/s320/black.jpg" width="304" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-6303238596161607545?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/6303238596161607545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=6303238596161607545&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6303238596161607545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6303238596161607545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2012/01/see-world-through-pink-glasses.html' title='See The World Through Pink Glasses'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zxawu-aYclM/TxcorC8kpvI/AAAAAAAAAfg/V967p01-dWA/s72-c/pink.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-570255012708090948</id><published>2011-01-30T17:21:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T19:06:58.467+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quilting'/><title type='text'>Patchwork intermezzo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I really don't know what happened to my sewing mood. After few summer projects I didn't sew anything for myself. No inspiration, no sewing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;So, for this fall/winter season zero finished garments. Now, I'll wait until spring. There are few nice patterns in February Burda. (Maybe they will inspire me.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;In meanwhile I do patchwork.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;A year ago I become a member of&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patchwork-dubrovnik/" style="color: #274e13;"&gt;Patchwork club&lt;/a&gt;, the first and only one here in Croatia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I have started with simple small projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Here are my first "babies".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Table toppers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEmb6f7UI/AAAAAAAAAe4/75R1LvEzJOo/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEmb6f7UI/AAAAAAAAAe4/75R1LvEzJOo/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Tumbling blocks-quilt block pattern&amp;nbsp; 44x44cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWErEKmsrI/AAAAAAAAAe8/FQXSCwUVP3s/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWErEKmsrI/AAAAAAAAAe8/FQXSCwUVP3s/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Storm at sea-quilt block pattern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEwG30xII/AAAAAAAAAfI/fFNzFqMa9R0/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEwG30xII/AAAAAAAAAfI/fFNzFqMa9R0/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Little Blossoms-quilt block pattern 40x40cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEyakEH4I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/e6x9YM5dHyk/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEyakEH4I/AAAAAAAAAfQ/e6x9YM5dHyk/s400/10.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Memory-quilt block pattern 40x4o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWExMlfORI/AAAAAAAAAfM/l1Tu0mhSo8k/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWExMlfORI/AAAAAAAAAfM/l1Tu0mhSo8k/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Starflower-quilt block pattern 40x40cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Testing Pam Bono Designs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Cushion cases &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEti-S7hI/AAAAAAAAAfA/IOVz1Ays2G0/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEti-S7hI/AAAAAAAAAfA/IOVz1Ays2G0/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Patchwork and blue work embroidery.40x40cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEvDhBE7I/AAAAAAAAAfE/YRmYw2BPgrI/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEvDhBE7I/AAAAAAAAAfE/YRmYw2BPgrI/s400/6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Patchwork,blue work embroidery and decoupage on  fabric. 40x40cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;Baby quilt&lt;/b&gt; - birthday gift for my sweet nephew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; 100x130cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEkXdmhyI/AAAAAAAAAe0/QI5nDqeUJGk/s1600/DSC08544.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="276" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEkXdmhyI/AAAAAAAAAe0/QI5nDqeUJGk/s400/DSC08544.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-570255012708090948?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/570255012708090948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=570255012708090948&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/570255012708090948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/570255012708090948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2011/01/patchwork-intermezzo.html' title='Patchwork intermezzo'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TUWEmb6f7UI/AAAAAAAAAe4/75R1LvEzJOo/s72-c/2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5876670495937935944</id><published>2010-09-30T13:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T13:15:54.239+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Hola Señorita</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;   &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:HyphenationZone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt;   &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt;   &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:Compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt;    &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt;    &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt;    &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt;    &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:BrowserLevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt; /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;While everyone is planning and preparing winter wardrobe, I am still in summer mood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This is one of few pieces&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I have sewed this summer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRuT7ZSJOI/AAAAAAAAAeM/A105jZ2tDYY/s1600/April_112A_tech_drawing_large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRuT7ZSJOI/AAAAAAAAAeM/A105jZ2tDYY/s320/April_112A_tech_drawing_large.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pattern: &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.com/patterns/42010-peasant-blouse"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;BurdaStyle Magazine: 04-2010-112a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Simple, beautiful, exotic blouse in Carmen style.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Well I know, I'm not a Carmen, but who cares.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRunrjWAEI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/nA-jAVIF7bE/s1600/DSC08128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRunrjWAEI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/nA-jAVIF7bE/s320/DSC08128.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Fabric used: white embroidered cotton .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRvLuW_1kI/AAAAAAAAAeU/AEvlZGoUBXg/s1600/carm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRvLuW_1kI/AAAAAAAAAeU/AEvlZGoUBXg/s320/carm.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No alterations.Flounces are finished with 3-thread rolled hem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5876670495937935944?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5876670495937935944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5876670495937935944&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5876670495937935944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5876670495937935944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/09/hola-senorita.html' title='Hola Señorita'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TKRuT7ZSJOI/AAAAAAAAAeM/A105jZ2tDYY/s72-c/April_112A_tech_drawing_large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-3306625038024219127</id><published>2010-09-12T17:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-12T17:35:08.497+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><title type='text'>Frilled one-piece dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;   &lt;w:View&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:HyphenationZone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:PunctuationKerning/&gt;   &lt;w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/&gt;   &lt;w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:Compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:BreakWrappedTables/&gt;    &lt;w:SnapToGridInCell/&gt;    &lt;w:WrapTextWithPunct/&gt;    &lt;w:UseAsianBreakRules/&gt;    &lt;w:DontGrowAutofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:BrowserLevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt; /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Finally post after two months.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;One of my New Year goals was to spend more time walking,swimming and resting.So, I turned all my blogging time in&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;beach time.I really enjoyed this summer.I made some jewelery,sewed few pieces and read some books.Now I have to catch up so much in this blog world.There was a lot of sewing,new baby,new pets...a lot of posts to read.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;First of all I'll show you few pieces I made tree months ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This frilled one-piece dress I have prepared&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;for&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;my second exhibition opening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzv0lw7dkI/AAAAAAAAAdE/qA86zRBfnjY/s1600/DSC06328a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzv0lw7dkI/AAAAAAAAAdE/qA86zRBfnjY/s320/DSC06328a.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzwXfU4hXI/AAAAAAAAAdM/hrsEX3gcE-g/s1600/DSC06334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzwXfU4hXI/AAAAAAAAAdM/hrsEX3gcE-g/s320/DSC06334.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The color of the dress&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;was chosen to match the jewelry color I have exhibited.LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzwmCEd0WI/AAAAAAAAAdU/3TPT1X0G5jA/s1600/36120_418063857384_57167857384_4950502_1650428_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzwmCEd0WI/AAAAAAAAAdU/3TPT1X0G5jA/s320/36120_418063857384_57167857384_4950502_1650428_n.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And the exhibited bag was in same style.LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzw2CTp1mI/AAAAAAAAAdc/A8H-xrPDgPo/s1600/36120_418063852384_57167857384_4950501_4981021_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzw2CTp1mI/AAAAAAAAAdc/A8H-xrPDgPo/s320/36120_418063852384_57167857384_4950501_4981021_n.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So here it is, comfortable little summer dress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzxkYS9A4I/AAAAAAAAAdk/Y3EfsOj3phU/s1600/DSC08112a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzxkYS9A4I/AAAAAAAAAdk/Y3EfsOj3phU/s320/DSC08112a.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzxszfzJWI/AAAAAAAAAds/iyHwlkN5QK4/s1600/DSC08132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzxszfzJWI/AAAAAAAAAds/iyHwlkN5QK4/s320/DSC08132.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pattern: Sewing book Simple Chic, by Machiko Kayaki. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Fabric:turquoise linen/cotton blend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I'm so satisfied with this pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I like&lt;span style="color: cyan;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://rosechiffon.blogspot.com/2008/09/transformation-du-noir-en-fulguropoing.html" style="color: cyan;"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; tunic version,too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-3306625038024219127?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/3306625038024219127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=3306625038024219127&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/3306625038024219127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/3306625038024219127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/09/frilled-one-piece-dress.html' title='Frilled one-piece dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TIzv0lw7dkI/AAAAAAAAAdE/qA86zRBfnjY/s72-c/DSC06328a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-119258770459661272</id><published>2010-06-25T18:04:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T19:26:40.662+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><title type='text'>Simple pull over blouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;From sewing book &lt;a href="http://www.yesasia.com/us/dress-up-dress-down-simple-chic-with-paper-pattern/1003445494-0-0-0-en/info.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;Simple Chic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, by Machiko Kayaki. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQftcmKyI/AAAAAAAAAbg/hZfDUSvC3cA/s1600/DSC07417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQftcmKyI/AAAAAAAAAbg/hZfDUSvC3cA/s400/DSC07417.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This is the easiest top pattern I ever seen and used.Simple and perfect for beginners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQv1zxtTI/AAAAAAAAAbo/YoE3hNcI2Do/s1600/DSC07424.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQv1zxtTI/AAAAAAAAAbo/YoE3hNcI2Do/s400/DSC07424.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This pattern is perfect for reversible tops or for sewing with lace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The fabric I used is  light cotton with silver glitter decoration.The fabric is little bit transparent so I lined the blouse with cheesecloth.I find that cheesecloth  is very practical for lining summer garments. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQ-dUEq5I/AAAAAAAAAbw/G5LRS_HxB5M/s1600/DSC07698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQ-dUEq5I/AAAAAAAAAbw/G5LRS_HxB5M/s400/DSC07698.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The top is"dartless", so if you need bust darts you have to &lt;a href="http://www.sewingconnection.com/darts.htm" style="color: purple;"&gt;add &lt;/a&gt;them or forget this pattern.I do not have bust darts problem.:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;To embellish the top I made this transparent,delicate,organza fabric rose.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTRJJtsGsI/AAAAAAAAAb4/pRD5uPeeGCU/s1600/rose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTRJJtsGsI/AAAAAAAAAb4/pRD5uPeeGCU/s400/rose.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Some more useful fabric flower tutorials &lt;a href="http://www.reesedixon.com/2009/03/organza-flowers.html" style="background-color: white; color: magenta;"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://littlebirdiesecrets.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-make-pretty-organza-flowers.html" style="color: purple;"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-119258770459661272?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/119258770459661272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=119258770459661272&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/119258770459661272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/119258770459661272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/06/simple-pull-over-blouse.html' title='Simple pull over blouse'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/TCTQftcmKyI/AAAAAAAAAbg/hZfDUSvC3cA/s72-c/DSC07417.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-2362444143517651987</id><published>2010-05-26T18:31:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T18:34:19.586+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><title type='text'>Nostalgic dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The next project from book  &lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-craft-books.html" style="color: purple;"&gt;Simple Chic&lt;/a&gt;, by Machiko Kayaki is this cute  nostalgic dress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1JwSrwWNI/AAAAAAAAAak/BQSVGD-yg_A/s1600/dress-no13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1JwSrwWNI/AAAAAAAAAak/BQSVGD-yg_A/s320/dress-no13.jpg" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1LorcM9eI/AAAAAAAAAa8/_vbzHGTlBF4/s1600/DSC07426.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="256" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1LorcM9eI/AAAAAAAAAa8/_vbzHGTlBF4/s320/DSC07426.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I really love the way it turned out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1KAbR7IUI/AAAAAAAAAas/o73mUh-p5zc/s1600/DSC07487.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1KAbR7IUI/AAAAAAAAAas/o73mUh-p5zc/s400/DSC07487.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Used fabric: dark blue rayon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Changes I made:cut about 15cm from the  skirt  length(it was almost maxi dress) added 2cm to the bodice length and sewed the belt  lower.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The lace  around neckline gives the  romantic and vintage look,and I like it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1KTvneI4I/AAAAAAAAAa0/Gw7HfouucI0/s1600/DSC07529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1KTvneI4I/AAAAAAAAAa0/Gw7HfouucI0/s320/DSC07529.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;For all admirers of  Machiko Kayaki patterns&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/38059845@N00/pool/" style="color: purple;"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is the fan club on Flicker.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-2362444143517651987?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/2362444143517651987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=2362444143517651987&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/2362444143517651987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/2362444143517651987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/05/nostalgic-dress.html' title='Nostalgic dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S_1JwSrwWNI/AAAAAAAAAak/BQSVGD-yg_A/s72-c/dress-no13.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-2948837931501101413</id><published>2010-04-25T12:21:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-08T18:09:10.731+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embroidery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earrings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><title type='text'>So happy!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Thursday night was the opening of ULIPUD exhibition. (The Association of Fine and Applied artists of Dubrovnik)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am still dancing happy dance!My bag, crocheted and felted jewelry are exhibited there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QU2P52rmI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/QM0LgoMwBcc/s1600/DSC07319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QU2P52rmI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/QM0LgoMwBcc/s320/DSC07319.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Embroidered bag.Dubrovačko Primorje embroidery.Wedding scarf motive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QU6zScMOI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/Jew1aTDivBA/s1600/DSC07323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QU6zScMOI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/Jew1aTDivBA/s400/DSC07323.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Crocheted and felted jewelery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QVXE4NAEI/AAAAAAAAAaE/nppUqK3IqyY/s1600/DSC07335.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QVXE4NAEI/AAAAAAAAAaE/nppUqK3IqyY/s400/DSC07335.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mother's masterpiece :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-2948837931501101413?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/2948837931501101413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=2948837931501101413&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/2948837931501101413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/2948837931501101413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/04/so-happy.html' title='So happy!!!'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S9QU2P52rmI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/QM0LgoMwBcc/s72-c/DSC07319.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-6355216002635131654</id><published>2010-04-19T09:25:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T09:33:38.090+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Bateau neckline top</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Oh yes, I am alive! Not in perfect condition considering the years, but still alive. LOL&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Still trying to recover from this terrible winter. But, that is not a reason why I'm not blogging for more than two months. I was so busy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;After a year and a half struggle to sell my crocheted jewelry and bags on &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/LadyLina" style="color: orange;"&gt;Etsy&lt;/a&gt;, I finally decided to try something different. I offered my jewelry to local souvenir and gift shops, and that was successful. Since I live in most popular tourist&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik" style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;city&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;in Croatia, and I can for sure say, very well known in whole world- selling "at home" was something expected, and I don't know why I didn't try it before. But, it's never too late.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I have been making handbags and jewelry for days, and totally limited access to the internet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I was in a hurry,&amp;nbsp; didn't take pictures of most things I made, but I am so happy that I finished everything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I even manage to sew something for myself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;That is simple raglan sleeves top with the bateau neckline from &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burda-style/02-2010_bsmid_129.html"&gt;February Burda.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8wBH2dGetI/AAAAAAAAAZU/KAW3zHm2-c8/s1600/000001832844.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8wBH2dGetI/AAAAAAAAAZU/KAW3zHm2-c8/s320/000001832844.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Fabric: Soft gray knit wool and something blend with animal print.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Alternations: Shortened the sleeves and top length.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8v_xBmllMI/AAAAAAAAAZE/udnd0GHCdRg/s1600/DSC07135.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8v_xBmllMI/AAAAAAAAAZE/udnd0GHCdRg/s400/DSC07135.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I love it! Now, I have two TNT patterns for two tops with the bateau neckline. This one with raglan sleeves and one with &lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/10/t-shirt-top.html" style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;"&gt;set-in sleeves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: magenta;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I made last year.&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The flower for the necklace at the picture I made using &lt;a href="http://boutiquenutmegdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/03/organza-flower-tutorial.html" style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;this &lt;/a&gt;tutorial. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8wAg1PqW0I/AAAAAAAAAZM/E5CxKu4CUKc/s1600/DSC07280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8wAg1PqW0I/AAAAAAAAAZM/E5CxKu4CUKc/s400/DSC07280.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-6355216002635131654?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/6355216002635131654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=6355216002635131654&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6355216002635131654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6355216002635131654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/04/bateau-neckline-top.html' title='Bateau neckline top'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S8wBH2dGetI/AAAAAAAAAZU/KAW3zHm2-c8/s72-c/000001832844.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5074450266276672227</id><published>2010-02-15T16:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T16:04:02.087+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pants'/><title type='text'>Wide pants</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here it is- my first sewing project in this year. It is never too late. These days I am mostly sick of everything. I am sick of this winter, I am sick of being sick .So; I am not in sewing mood, at all. Somehow, I forced myself to sew these pants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3leyr_TA7I/AAAAAAAAAV8/je3hRtzUpD4/s1600-h/pants5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3leyr_TA7I/AAAAAAAAAV8/je3hRtzUpD4/s400/pants5.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Those are pants from &lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-craft-books.html" style="color: #38761d;"&gt;Japanese sewing book-Simple chic&lt;/a&gt;. My third project from this book, and I am very satisfied.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lfTIa3r-I/AAAAAAAAAWM/r1Ose6w6kUk/s1600-h/pants4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lfTIa3r-I/AAAAAAAAAWM/r1Ose6w6kUk/s400/pants4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lfBd8IT0I/AAAAAAAAAWE/x5-AEK7oXrc/s1600-h/pants3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lfBd8IT0I/AAAAAAAAAWE/x5-AEK7oXrc/s400/pants3.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; The pants are basic, wide (but not too wide) with side zipper. Until now I sewed pants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; only&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; from Burda patterns. I always have to make some alternations. Burda pants are too deep for me (Is that right English explanation?)Those one are really perfect. I just cut them and sew. Even the length was perfect. Used fabric is black wool gabardine blend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lgaiNzVlI/AAAAAAAAAWc/-wcFSTy7Vso/s1600-h/pants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lgaiNzVlI/AAAAAAAAAWc/-wcFSTy7Vso/s400/pants.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lgoX_KAkI/AAAAAAAAAWk/b6F1xdovQbU/s1600-h/pants2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3lgoX_KAkI/AAAAAAAAAWk/b6F1xdovQbU/s400/pants2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I did not make the belt because I did not find an appropriate clasp pin. I save some fabric, and I'll do that later. I highly recommend this pattern. It's easy and the fit is really nice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This success cheered me a little. I hope that soon will be more new projects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5074450266276672227?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5074450266276672227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5074450266276672227&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5074450266276672227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5074450266276672227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/02/wide-pants.html' title='Wide pants'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S3leyr_TA7I/AAAAAAAAAV8/je3hRtzUpD4/s72-c/pants5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-1432402749036134988</id><published>2010-01-24T16:23:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T14:59:52.445+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scarf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Pinafore dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Finally, I took some pictures of a dress I finished back in December. This is a dress/jumper from old &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burda-modemagazin/09-2007_bsmid_50.html" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Burda magazine (09-2007-121).&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xcg2zGx7I/AAAAAAAAAVE/DqGceomto0Y/s1600-h/000001590079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xcg2zGx7I/AAAAAAAAAVE/DqGceomto0Y/s320/000001590079.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Lately I sew only with old patterns. There are two reasons for that: I need some time to accept new trends, and I don't sew enough so I can't finish all my plans from past years. So, for this year the sewing plan is to use all patterns from Simple chic (Japanese book I'm in love :)) and to use at least one pattern from new Burda. (I have a reason to buy&amp;nbsp; a magazine every month. :) )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Back to dress: This is pull-on knit dress with a deep v-neck and tulip-shaped skirt. It was quick and easy to sew. The fabric I used is heavy gray wool jersey.At first; I was worried it would be too bulky at the bodice. -The lining for bodice is the same wool jersey.-But it is not. I am skinny enough, and some bulky on particular parts of the body is welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xhVsqX8cI/AAAAAAAAAVc/pAklhrn9-D8/s1600-h/jumper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xhVsqX8cI/AAAAAAAAAVc/pAklhrn9-D8/s400/jumper.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; The Burda advice is to wear the dress over " a close-fitting turtleneck pullover for the true-to-style look."I love turtlenecks. Since I always freeze, they keep me warm. So, for me, this dress is the perfect garment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xejUMTbuI/AAAAAAAAAVU/XGBtV1MpbPU/s1600-h/DSC06602.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xejUMTbuI/AAAAAAAAAVU/XGBtV1MpbPU/s400/DSC06602.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; I took size 36 and didn't make any pattern alternation. &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?CompanyID=3&amp;amp;search=search&amp;amp;PatternNumber=09-2007-121" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;are lots of others dresses with complete reviews and useful construction details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I did finally complete the scarf I have started back in September.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xiGGd8UvI/AAAAAAAAAVk/qpTbZlNLNSo/s1600-h/silver-scarf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xiGGd8UvI/AAAAAAAAAVk/qpTbZlNLNSo/s400/silver-scarf.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And the beret from same yarn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xjALt8fJI/AAAAAAAAAVs/9oH5SIrnrQA/s1600-h/silver-beret-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xjALt8fJI/AAAAAAAAAVs/9oH5SIrnrQA/s400/silver-beret-1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am not completely satisfied with the beret.The pattern is so beautiful but it's not noticeable when it is done with this yarn. And the photos are bad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xjMYA19hI/AAAAAAAAAV0/Sh_H3HDUgsg/s1600-h/silver-beret.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xjMYA19hI/AAAAAAAAAV0/Sh_H3HDUgsg/s400/silver-beret.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;You can't see the beauty of the  shining and sparkling yarn.LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; I can't resist it.I really love busy prints, colors, sparkling stones, sequins and other kitsch.Period!LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-1432402749036134988?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/1432402749036134988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=1432402749036134988&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/1432402749036134988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/1432402749036134988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/01/pinafore-dress.html' title='Pinafore dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/S1xcg2zGx7I/AAAAAAAAAVE/DqGceomto0Y/s72-c/000001590079.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4670480582425637917</id><published>2010-01-01T15:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-01T15:23:38.930+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><title type='text'>Bye-Bye 2009!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*Previous year had finally ended, and I am glad. It was one of hardest years. Mostly I was ill. Last three months I was on four different antibiotics. So, I entered the New Year with new antibiotics and one more sore throat. Thankfully this is not a dangerous illness, but I am totally exhausted. I lost some weight, and that is not good. Now I hope that the new antibiotic will stop bacterial infection. I try to eat better and rest more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*I did not sew much in previous year. But writing this blog and taking photos of finished garments helped me a lot. Thanks to those photos, I noticed every mistake I have made, and realized that I have to make some changes in my style. Photos are cruel more than mirrors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*I have many plans in new year. With better health and little luck I hope I'll realize them all. I plan to crochet and sew more, walk to the beach more, swim and enjoy the sun. I have some plans for selling my jewelry, bags and other stuff I make. A lot of plans, but I will go step by step. (I have to show you one dress I have finished last year, but I am not capable for photo shooting, yet.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*Since I started blogging in June last year, I feel really welcome in this sewing-blogging world. So, I want to thank you dear readers for your support and comments. I did not leave a lot of comments on other blogs (This is a matter of my knowledge of English), but I read them all, and I admire your skills. One of my New Year decisions is to hang out with you more.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt; Wish you wonderful, healthy, happy 2010!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sz4DmcFwehI/AAAAAAAAAU8/hVNy7ZNxvk0/s1600-h/singer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sz4DmcFwehI/AAAAAAAAAU8/hVNy7ZNxvk0/s400/singer.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-4670480582425637917?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/4670480582425637917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=4670480582425637917&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4670480582425637917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4670480582425637917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2010/01/bye-bye-2009.html' title='Bye-Bye 2009!'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sz4DmcFwehI/AAAAAAAAAU8/hVNy7ZNxvk0/s72-c/singer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4267778208872535473</id><published>2009-12-11T21:41:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T21:46:30.438+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><title type='text'>Roll-collar one-piece dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The second project from&lt;span style="color: #38761d;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-craft-books.html" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;Japanese sewing book-Simple chic-&lt;/a&gt; is finished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKresYWDHI/AAAAAAAAAUU/WUWi0Z6RtEg/s1600-h/siva3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKresYWDHI/AAAAAAAAAUU/WUWi0Z6RtEg/s400/siva3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Like the title say the dress has roll collar, pattern is easy and basic.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKry8HEd8I/AAAAAAAAAUc/lnpfbjeUxqM/s1600-h/siva4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKry8HEd8I/AAAAAAAAAUc/lnpfbjeUxqM/s400/siva4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;There is an invisible zipper at the back. The fabric is wool blend. I added lining, even it is not supposed for this dress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKsGUUqXmI/AAAAAAAAAUk/W1ORNmmmbME/s1600-h/siva5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKsGUUqXmI/AAAAAAAAAUk/W1ORNmmmbME/s400/siva5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;What to say about this dress? It is basic shift dress, simple pattern. It looks much better on sewing form in the book than on me.LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKsd9iCsUI/AAAAAAAAAUs/yVMGKhcTGtE/s1600-h/siva6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKsd9iCsUI/AAAAAAAAAUs/yVMGKhcTGtE/s400/siva6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt; Maybe the chosen fabric is problem, or my body shape is problem. Maybe the shift dress is not my style. My husband says that the dress is just appropriate for nuns. Hmm. I tried to fix that "nun look" with belt. I'm not sure: is it better?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKsuWsAuXI/AAAAAAAAAU0/eIfI11G_BZs/s1600-h/siva2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKsuWsAuXI/AAAAAAAAAU0/eIfI11G_BZs/s400/siva2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I will sew this dress again because I love this pattern. I hope that it will look much better with different fabric. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-4267778208872535473?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/4267778208872535473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=4267778208872535473&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4267778208872535473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4267778208872535473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/12/roll-collar-one-piece-dress.html' title='Roll-collar one-piece dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SyKresYWDHI/AAAAAAAAAUU/WUWi0Z6RtEg/s72-c/siva3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4365378269995550948</id><published>2009-12-02T14:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T21:47:31.751+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embroidery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><title type='text'>Embroidery lessons</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Past days I took  few embroidery lessons.Well, I know basics, but this were lessons about  embroidery that  is used for embellishing national costumes from Dubrovacko Primorje -a  region situated northwest of the city &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik" style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;"&gt;Dubrovnik&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span style="background-color: magenta;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I haven't pictures of costumes, just few photos of scarves.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Mady by&amp;nbsp; very talented&amp;nbsp; lady Nike.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZlyE_g4II/AAAAAAAAARQ/m_RJgFun-HY/s1600-h/marama1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZlyE_g4II/AAAAAAAAARQ/m_RJgFun-HY/s320/marama1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZmC7tzGsI/AAAAAAAAARY/1EMXWoC5nPQ/s1600-h/marama1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZmC7tzGsI/AAAAAAAAARY/1EMXWoC5nPQ/s320/marama1a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZmQznoWmI/AAAAAAAAARg/lueGJWXb1Jo/s1600-h/marama2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZmQznoWmI/AAAAAAAAARg/lueGJWXb1Jo/s320/marama2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZma2cEv9I/AAAAAAAAARw/Nc00_wOfTp8/s1600-h/marama3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZma2cEv9I/AAAAAAAAARw/Nc00_wOfTp8/s320/marama3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZme2HgQyI/AAAAAAAAAR4/ea7cWwX0Cc4/s1600-h/marama3a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZme2HgQyI/AAAAAAAAAR4/ea7cWwX0Cc4/s320/marama3a.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Those scarves were worn for weddings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This scarf is over hundred years, old.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZnm5-ADII/AAAAAAAAASA/Am3jzKgR2NY/s1600-h/marama100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZnm5-ADII/AAAAAAAAASA/Am3jzKgR2NY/s320/marama100.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This embroidery patterns were used for decorating vests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZoK98srYI/AAAAAAAAASg/qSywGwyLSq4/s1600-h/m5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZoK98srYI/AAAAAAAAASg/qSywGwyLSq4/s200/m5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZoAcjmbYI/AAAAAAAAASQ/eK2m2F2f1sQ/s1600-h/m3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZoAcjmbYI/AAAAAAAAASQ/eK2m2F2f1sQ/s200/m3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZoGLO-XFI/AAAAAAAAASY/zMmyl9asXsg/s1600-h/m4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZoGLO-XFI/AAAAAAAAASY/zMmyl9asXsg/s200/m4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;All stitches are basic embroidery stitches.Specific is only way of using them, and combination of colors. There is lots of colors, gold thread and sequins. Everything I love. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No, I will not sew national costume.I used everything I learned on my way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I  made this dark blue tote bag and embellished it with specific embroidery   pattern. The bag  is dark blue because the costumes are dark blue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZo0u0yKJI/AAAAAAAAASo/aP4ZJld4LL4/s1600-h/modra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZo0u0yKJI/AAAAAAAAASo/aP4ZJld4LL4/s400/modra.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The second bag is creamy beige, like wedding scarf, with  colorful flowers and gold sequins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZpA6Yq49I/AAAAAAAAASw/_8B8B5cEHuc/s1600-h/moja.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZpA6Yq49I/AAAAAAAAASw/_8B8B5cEHuc/s400/moja.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZpJW82lNI/AAAAAAAAAS4/EuOQ-8NaDms/s1600-h/moja1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZpJW82lNI/AAAAAAAAAS4/EuOQ-8NaDms/s320/moja1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And that's it, my modest way to preserve national treasure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Unfortunately only four of us were attended those lessons, even they were free.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It seems young people do not care for tradition, at all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;That is such a pity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-4365378269995550948?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/4365378269995550948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=4365378269995550948&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4365378269995550948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4365378269995550948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/12/embroidery-lessons.html' title='Embroidery lessons'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SxZlyE_g4II/AAAAAAAAARQ/m_RJgFun-HY/s72-c/marama1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-7109675593666361299</id><published>2009-11-21T17:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:03:48.356+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earrings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>A Shirt-blouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The plan was to sew &lt;a href="http://www.burdafashion.com/en/Magazine/burda_style/103_Schluppenbluse/1270777-1000019-1724618-1724627-1726036.html" style="color: orange;"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;blouse. But, as usual, I did not have enough fabric. So, another option was the blouse that I made two years ago.&lt;a href="http://www.burdafashion.com/en/Magazines/Archives/101_A_Shirt-blouse/1270777-1463237-1541254-1541257-1541314.html"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burda-modemagazin/09-2007_bsmid_50.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;( Burda-9-2007)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The pattern is basic, easy to sew, and I think trendy this year again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgR-MYfsNI/AAAAAAAAAQw/KCHvAnjeA_Q/s1600/000001589980.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgR-MYfsNI/AAAAAAAAAQw/KCHvAnjeA_Q/s320/000001589980.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Then I used satin and I haven't made any change. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This time I used georgette.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgSX2ORDBI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/6zI_HqsutXg/s1600/bluza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgSX2ORDBI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/6zI_HqsutXg/s400/bluza.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I made some modifications to the sleeves. Elastic at the wrists-Burda propose, was not a good solution for me. In this version I used elastic thread - 5 lines-I think this is much better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgSvu5yNtI/AAAAAAAAARA/bVeeulOUYoY/s1600/bluza1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgSvu5yNtI/AAAAAAAAARA/bVeeulOUYoY/s400/bluza1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No, I will not sew this blouse again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Two times was enough for this pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Since earrings are my passion, I made a matching pair. They look much better at the day light.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgTEK4AJEI/AAAAAAAAARI/gUMtbCFjZI0/s1600/naus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgTEK4AJEI/AAAAAAAAARI/gUMtbCFjZI0/s400/naus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Just for the record: I have a "real" jewelry but I wear only bijouterie and jewelry I made. Don't know why.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-7109675593666361299?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/7109675593666361299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=7109675593666361299&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7109675593666361299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7109675593666361299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/11/shirt-blouse.html' title='A Shirt-blouse'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SwgR-MYfsNI/AAAAAAAAAQw/KCHvAnjeA_Q/s72-c/000001589980.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5027620372770199827</id><published>2009-11-08T15:18:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:47:32.491+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><title type='text'>Like first snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;One more Treasury with my&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25892358" style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Cream crocheted necklace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;Made by dear friend &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Filzlaus" style="color: #7f6000;"&gt;Filzlaus.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SvbSGPrCTpI/AAAAAAAAAQo/Pgzx27ER1no/s1600-h/filz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SvbSGPrCTpI/AAAAAAAAAQo/Pgzx27ER1no/s400/filz.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Beautiful Treasury list.As some one commented"beautiful and fresh like first snow".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5027620372770199827?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5027620372770199827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5027620372770199827&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5027620372770199827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5027620372770199827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/11/like-first-snow.html' title='Like first snow'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SvbSGPrCTpI/AAAAAAAAAQo/Pgzx27ER1no/s72-c/filz.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-2569603869006523786</id><published>2009-10-31T15:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:06:31.364+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>A T-shirt top</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Finished one more top!&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;This one has been&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?submit=1&amp;amp;pn=1&amp;amp;search=1&amp;amp;PatternID=27695&amp;amp;CompanyID=3&amp;amp;Type=21" style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;"&gt;reviewed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #f3f3f3;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;so many times;so I have not much to write about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Fabric is cotton jersey-my favorite as you can see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pattern is from&lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/kontrastreich-02-2009_aid_2796.html"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt;Burda 2/2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #a64d79;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;model 108.I  made A version with long sleeves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuxGt9pb7fI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ga7VtrPjLDs/s1600-h/000001745269.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuxGt9pb7fI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ga7VtrPjLDs/s320/000001745269.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is so easy to sew,basic...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And most important-perfect for colorful busy  prints that I like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;After reading all reviews I haven't made recommended alternations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Just cut and sew. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #444444; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuxHBiHWoyI/AAAAAAAAAQg/4PYtJTcoMTI/s1600-h/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuxHBiHWoyI/AAAAAAAAAQg/4PYtJTcoMTI/s400/2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And, yes, I'll sew it again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-2569603869006523786?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/2569603869006523786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=2569603869006523786&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/2569603869006523786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/2569603869006523786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/10/t-shirt-top.html' title='A T-shirt top'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuxGt9pb7fI/AAAAAAAAAQY/ga7VtrPjLDs/s72-c/000001745269.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5881151214477318529</id><published>2009-10-24T14:43:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:08:41.742+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Wrap-over top</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I finished what was planned for this week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am slowly getting back to the sewing mood. The wrap-over top is completed. &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/classics-10-2008_aid_2841.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;(Burda- 10-2008-119)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Fabric is cotton jersey, so there was no need for zipper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Alternations? O-yes! I sew the left side overlapping to the right. Why? Well, the pattern is so simple and very easy to sew; so I wasn't concentrated, at all. I didn't pay attention. I realized mistake at the end, when the top was finished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuL0yEgQyDI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/zky4gz3lWe0/s1600-h/siva1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuL0yEgQyDI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/zky4gz3lWe0/s400/siva1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is not too bad. I like it, even it is not perfect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Only, I hope I will not look like "101 Dalmatians" in it. (Probably like only one of Dalmatians. LOL)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5881151214477318529?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5881151214477318529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5881151214477318529&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5881151214477318529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5881151214477318529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/10/wrap-over-top.html' title='Wrap-over top'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SuL0yEgQyDI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/zky4gz3lWe0/s72-c/siva1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-7790637432737472324</id><published>2009-10-16T12:59:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:10:40.763+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><title type='text'>Life is good!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*I 'm much better today. I made a deal with &lt;a href="http://myfabrication.blogspot.com/" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Gail&lt;/a&gt; to split our curves. LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No matter, flat or curved the point is that we are unique. That is the beauty.:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*My dear friend &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5216490" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;3FUN&lt;/a&gt; made this elegant Etsy treasury with my &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25794785" style="color: black;"&gt;Black roses-necklace&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SthQiCID4RI/AAAAAAAAAQA/HhHYgbNL6lA/s1600-h/3fun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SthQiCID4RI/AAAAAAAAAQA/HhHYgbNL6lA/s400/3fun.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*I plan to sew&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_553912347"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/classics-10-2008_aid_2841.html" style="color: red;"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; top.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SthQ0DcogUI/AAAAAAAAAQI/NnWIcftA2P8/s1600-h/000001726117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SthQ0DcogUI/AAAAAAAAAQI/NnWIcftA2P8/s320/000001726117.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;*Life is good!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-7790637432737472324?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/7790637432737472324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=7790637432737472324&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7790637432737472324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7790637432737472324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/10/life-is-good.html' title='Life is good!'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SthQiCID4RI/AAAAAAAAAQA/HhHYgbNL6lA/s72-c/3fun.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-3736718798008070703</id><published>2009-10-14T14:11:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:13:31.575+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Curvy skirt - disaster</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Yesterday I sewed  something after a long time.And, result is disaster.I read &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;amp;reviewnum=35789" style="color: black;"&gt;review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;of &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/classics-11-2008_aid_2831.html#" style="color: black;"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; skirt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/StW9-gUTsDI/AAAAAAAAAPw/FpaKwYCKtLI/s1600-h/000001728487.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/StW9-gUTsDI/AAAAAAAAAPw/FpaKwYCKtLI/s320/000001728487.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It seemed to me this skirt is just what I need. It is quite simple to sew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I bought gray microfiber for it ,made all alternations I need , inserted an invisible zipper to the back, lined the skirt ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/StW-G11KFNI/AAAAAAAAAP4/fskj2ImH-cY/s1600-h/mf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/StW-G11KFNI/AAAAAAAAAP4/fskj2ImH-cY/s400/mf.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It is almost finished. Just have to sew hem by hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I made a skirt technically good.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;While reading all those reviews I ignored this sentence: "This is designed for a curvy hourglass figure ... think Joan from the series Mad Men." Hello, you are not Joan, what were you thinking? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Skirt looks disastrous on me.No curves , no hourglass figure,no butt,no flattering shaping.Only flat board - dressed in skirt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No, I am not going to show you this disaster.It is too painful for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Even my husband and son&amp;nbsp; viciously commented on my appearance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I need some time to recover.LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-3736718798008070703?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/3736718798008070703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=3736718798008070703&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/3736718798008070703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/3736718798008070703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/10/curvy-skirt-disaster.html' title='Curvy skirt - disaster'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/StW9-gUTsDI/AAAAAAAAAPw/FpaKwYCKtLI/s72-c/000001728487.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-6743725069266174059</id><published>2009-10-01T20:05:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:50:06.537+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earrings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><title type='text'>Etsy treasury</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;My&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30607693"&gt; &lt;span style="color: orange;"&gt;Orange leaf earrings&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; were featured in this Etsy treasury.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SsTtqSZevSI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/FmxaRT3qTT0/s1600-h/kick.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SsTtqSZevSI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/FmxaRT3qTT0/s400/kick.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It was created by &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7075960" style="color: #e69138;"&gt;stockannette.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Theme was Etsy sellers from different countries.This was from Korea,Iceland,Croatia and Kuwait.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I like that concept .And I love the mixture of the green and orange.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-6743725069266174059?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/6743725069266174059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=6743725069266174059&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6743725069266174059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6743725069266174059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/10/etsy-treasury.html' title='Etsy treasury'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SsTtqSZevSI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/FmxaRT3qTT0/s72-c/kick.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-8811470322240960237</id><published>2009-09-17T19:23:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T19:30:32.696+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cardigan'/><title type='text'>New beginning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;These days,lots of sewing blogs are about "sewing with the plan".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I love this project.It will be good to participate one day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Until then, I'll follow all those who participate with great interest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Inspired with all that, I am planning some fall wardrobe, for first time in my life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;As you can see I love prints and colors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;When you open my closet,you can hear screams:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Welcome to circus!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nothing in my closet works together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So it is time to make some changes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;First I forbade myself  buying T-shirts with cartoon characters.(I'm big girl now.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Then, I bought some plain fabrics (well, with little print) for two skirts and two tops.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwFz9q55I/AAAAAAAAAOw/84NHJ8f8Ps0/s1600-h/fabric.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwFz9q55I/AAAAAAAAAOw/84NHJ8f8Ps0/s400/fabric.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Now, I am searching for some serious patterns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(I 'm big girl now.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In the meantime, I started a new cardigan and scarf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwMN-Pg7I/AAAAAAAAAO4/8D-ASosVyjM/s1600-h/kuk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwMN-Pg7I/AAAAAAAAAO4/8D-ASosVyjM/s400/kuk.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwTcwEA-I/AAAAAAAAAPA/vkxb-DmQVLQ/s1600-h/sal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwTcwEA-I/AAAAAAAAAPA/vkxb-DmQVLQ/s400/sal.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am always willing to begin a new project.LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-8811470322240960237?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/8811470322240960237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=8811470322240960237&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/8811470322240960237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/8811470322240960237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/09/these-dayslots-of-sewing-blogs-are.html' title='New beginning'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SrJwFz9q55I/AAAAAAAAAOw/84NHJ8f8Ps0/s72-c/fabric.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-7791628051792846692</id><published>2009-09-08T17:43:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:54:27.396+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hat'/><title type='text'>Etsy</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I have not begun to sew, yet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Just prepared some caps for my &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6083030" style="color: #993399;"&gt;Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SqZ8Oapr_1I/AAAAAAAAAM0/YoAQWTke0KQ/s1600-h/kape3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379123392054820690" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SqZ8Oapr_1I/AAAAAAAAAM0/YoAQWTke0KQ/s400/kape3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I am thinking whether to publish them or not. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;After one year on Etsy and very few things sold, I do not know is it worthwhile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I really love Etsy,and all those colorful things you can find there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I love people I met there,and whole atmosphere in the community.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;But obviously buyers do not like my  stuff. LOL &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;For me it's really difficult to sell something.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Too much work on promotions,advertising...for nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I know  that I lost all battles,but I'm not ready to quit. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Still thinking....&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;At the and, all my stuff can be given to friends and relatives for Christmas and birthdays.:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Watch out relatives and friends! Some of  these stuff spoken your names. LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SqZ74FvR0cI/AAAAAAAAAMk/HQ_w0c9C2NM/s1600-h/kape4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379123008484004290" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SqZ74FvR0cI/AAAAAAAAAMk/HQ_w0c9C2NM/s400/kape4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-7791628051792846692?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/7791628051792846692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=7791628051792846692&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7791628051792846692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7791628051792846692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/09/etsy.html' title='Etsy'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SqZ8Oapr_1I/AAAAAAAAAM0/YoAQWTke0KQ/s72-c/kape3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4465565119915874212</id><published>2009-08-28T12:03:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-28T12:16:22.406+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cardigan'/><title type='text'>White cotton cardigan</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The pattern for this cardigan is from &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.yesasia.com/us/keito-dama-no-141-2009-spring/1014280718-0-0-0-en/info.html"&gt;Keito Dama no. 141.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SpesI-LxazI/AAAAAAAAAME/W-pb6yPUdHM/s1600-h/ca8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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  &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It is made from &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;white cotton,with the 2mm hook.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Not perfect, but I like it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Just &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;added &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;a bit of length to body and sleeves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As with all the Japanese patterns, this&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;one was easy to follow, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SpesDl1B_zI/AAAAAAAAAL8/hiSLEtUp_5o/s1600-h/ca7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SpesDl1B_zI/AAAAAAAAAL8/hiSLEtUp_5o/s400/ca7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374953857984102194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sper-M_sCaI/AAAAAAAAAL0/HadfNQkECx4/s1600-h/ca4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I have some more favorites from this book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sper33oECEI/AAAAAAAAALs/JZL6uEH74RA/s1600-h/cr2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SperrSt37EI/AAAAAAAAALc/i9GNzezP4Fc/s400/cr4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374953440536947778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I'm still searching for suitable yarn. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-4465565119915874212?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/4465565119915874212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=4465565119915874212&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4465565119915874212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4465565119915874212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/08/white-cotton-cardigan.html' title='White cotton cardigan'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SpesgSyHT9I/AAAAAAAAAMU/qhYtWRUYDlM/s72-c/cr1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4874484289447850368</id><published>2009-08-18T18:46:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:52:36.687+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earrings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><title type='text'>Blue as the Adriatic Sea</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt; 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	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Inspired with my new &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/08/blue-dress.html"&gt;dress&lt;/a&gt; and beauty of the Adriatic Sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SorcpXH0IGI/AAAAAAAAALU/5M7Q09jAYP4/s1600-h/lopud4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Another summer dress.I love dresses. :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;This one is from&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1868036258"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/mode-mit-grafikprints-meisterwerke-03-2009_aid_2774.html" style="color: #3366ff;"&gt;March Burda issue, model no.107.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369419244952840146" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCWtmPZ9I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/72R2oBGGYH4/s400/blue3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Lovely sheath dress made of cotton.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Unlined,easy to sew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCQ9Jx0XI/AAAAAAAAAKI/eiA59HDwfzQ/s1600-h/blue2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369419146049212786" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCQ9Jx0XI/AAAAAAAAAKI/eiA59HDwfzQ/s400/blue2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCG29FgqI/AAAAAAAAAKA/dPDJmTYEJP8/s1600-h/p1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369418972586672802" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCG29FgqI/AAAAAAAAAKA/dPDJmTYEJP8/s400/p1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCAypGrLI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Vf6f8WFTDhM/s1600-h/p3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369418868349906098" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCAypGrLI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/Vf6f8WFTDhM/s400/p3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Were the instructions easy to follow? &lt;br /&gt;Well, I do not know, I do not follow instructions. &lt;br /&gt;Why not? &lt;br /&gt;Well, I do not know German. My Burda magazines are in German language . LOL &lt;br /&gt;So, I follow my intuition. Mostly with happy end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;But, sometimes takes too long .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5264179030835202769?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5264179030835202769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5264179030835202769&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5264179030835202769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5264179030835202769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/08/blue-dress.html' title='Blue dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SoQCWtmPZ9I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/72R2oBGGYH4/s72-c/blue3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-3974929788936093381</id><published>2009-08-01T12:08:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T12:28:22.300+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><title type='text'>"Simple little black dress"</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt; 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	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Here it is!!!My first project from Japanese sewing book -&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-craft-books.html"&gt;Simple chic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-craft-books.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Original pattern is this simple little black dress&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;no.3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQU8Km4_uI/AAAAAAAAAJg/8t00Ck8CDcY/s1600-h/pinkk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQU8Km4_uI/AAAAAAAAAJg/8t00Ck8CDcY/s400/pinkk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364936079977283298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The pattern is very simple and easy to follow. Attached pictures are enough and understandable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQUha5hTBI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/zZ9MafnyToc/s1600-h/pink1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQUha5hTBI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/zZ9MafnyToc/s400/pink1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364935620493921298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;There are three sizes for each model.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I took smallest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;size 9( B: 90cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;W:74cm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;H:104cm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;-for this model) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;My natural waist is lower than in most size charts,so I always&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;cut upper part of the dress 2-3cm longer . There is an invisible zipper.The fabric is medium weight cotton.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This model supposed the lining, but&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I skipped it. I used facings only around the neckline and arms. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQVcP1YS-I/AAAAAAAAAJo/3PpgwHgJSpQ/s1600-h/120.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQVcP1YS-I/AAAAAAAAAJo/3PpgwHgJSpQ/s400/120.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364936631136046050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Of course, my dress is pink/orange &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;and with flower pattern. LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQWYjVzxUI/AAAAAAAAAJw/tSlljdR2jN0/s1600-h/100.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQWYjVzxUI/AAAAAAAAAJw/tSlljdR2jN0/s400/100.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364937667164489026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQUbz2b91I/AAAAAAAAAJI/RjzfpZkhs6A/s1600-h/30.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQUbz2b91I/AAAAAAAAAJI/RjzfpZkhs6A/s400/30.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364935524112660306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:595.3pt 841.9pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I 'm very pleased with this pattern. I am quite sure,one day I will sew little black dress from it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;From taffeta or silk probably.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-3974929788936093381?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/3974929788936093381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=3974929788936093381&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/3974929788936093381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/3974929788936093381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/08/simple-little-black-dress.html' title='&quot;Simple little black dress&quot;'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SnQU8Km4_uI/AAAAAAAAAJg/8t00Ck8CDcY/s72-c/pinkk.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5176377868958879945</id><published>2009-07-19T10:43:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:21:24.065+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>One Yard dresses</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;No,I am not magician.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I am just a petite person.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;And I bought only two Yards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;this two fabrics.One Yard of each.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgoWWxfaI/AAAAAAAAAIY/x1l3S1-TcEw/s1600-h/be.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360093490324798882" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgoWWxfaI/AAAAAAAAAIY/x1l3S1-TcEw/s400/be.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 394px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLjhPEqIHI/AAAAAAAAAIw/GNaGfFCtBvU/s1600-h/rot.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360096666645569650" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLjhPEqIHI/AAAAAAAAAIw/GNaGfFCtBvU/s400/rot.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 299px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 290px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; 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I have constructed pattern by my self.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Well,I can't call this pattern. LOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgdiX6n0I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/BlSfwEUp7vI/s1600-h/ro-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360093304572256066" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgdiX6n0I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/BlSfwEUp7vI/s400/ro-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 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&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;There is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;ribbon running along the upper edge of the dress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgT_IISVI/AAAAAAAAAIA/eTIXG-waOFA/s1600-h/ro3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360093140491979090" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgT_IISVI/AAAAAAAAAIA/eTIXG-waOFA/s400/ro3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 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&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Maybe I will add belt from same ribbon,or maybe not. I have not decided jet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgI6W1ZnI/AAAAAAAAAHw/Moet3IZ2nSY/s1600-h/ro1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360092950232917618" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgI6W1ZnI/AAAAAAAAAHw/Moet3IZ2nSY/s400/ro1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 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&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;The pattern is from &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/elegante-mode-glamouroeses-gruen-05-2009_aid_2750.html"&gt;May Burda issue, model no.118.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;But, I skipped a piece of fabric that goes across the front&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;part of the dress. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I  haven't had enough fabric.LOL&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLf8gITTKI/AAAAAAAAAHg/cLwCLtAcPnE/s1600-h/bezz.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360092737034210466" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLf8gITTKI/AAAAAAAAAHg/cLwCLtAcPnE/s400/bezz.gif" style="cursor: pointer; 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&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I haven't had enough fabric to turn up regular hem, also. So I used false hem in color-coordinated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;trim.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLdRj93ifI/AAAAAAAAAHY/Rq7VQicpt7I/s1600-h/be1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360089800306559474" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLdRj93ifI/AAAAAAAAAHY/Rq7VQicpt7I/s400/be1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;There is invisible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;zip closure at the back.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLcyxEX29I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/fy9el7iXTLg/s1600-h/46.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360089271247559634" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLcyxEX29I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/fy9el7iXTLg/s400/46.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" face="arial"&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I'm really satisfied how it turned up at the end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Now,I have two cute day dresses. :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5176377868958879945?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5176377868958879945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5176377868958879945&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5176377868958879945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5176377868958879945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-jard-dresses.html' title='One Yard dresses'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SmLgoWWxfaI/AAAAAAAAAIY/x1l3S1-TcEw/s72-c/be.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5024054264431700451</id><published>2009-07-07T18:25:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-09T13:53:04.059+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crochet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crocheted jewelry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flowers'/><title type='text'>Plants on my balcony</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SlN4hC32bZI/AAAAAAAAAHI/M6JvJJsYVug/s1600-h/la7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SlN4hC32bZI/AAAAAAAAAHI/M6JvJJsYVug/s400/la7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355756890975792530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUcovic%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;This &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;necklace is available in my &lt;a style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6083030"&gt;Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 204);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But the most interesting part, in the latest necklace photo session,is that I used lavender from my balcony. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The balcony is a special place for me. &lt;/span&gt;I really enjoy drinking coffee there.&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Since we live in an apartment, in an old building with ugly facade,I am trying to improve it with flowers.Every year I plant something different.This is the first time that I have lavender plants. And finally I find perfect plant for my favorite place in the house.Other plants are nice, but usually the sun is too strong and it is difficult to maintain its freshness and beauty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Here are my beauties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SlN4Xl_j_JI/AAAAAAAAAHA/UOe_YURvNIM/s1600-h/61.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SlN4Xl_j_JI/AAAAAAAAAHA/UOe_YURvNIM/s400/61.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355756728604687506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SlN4ShCbCcI/AAAAAAAAAG4/Xye0EpSJbbw/s1600-h/67.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-ansi-language:#0400; 	mso-fareast-language:#0400; 	mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial;"&gt;I hope&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;next year, after facade&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;renovation, I will be able&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;to show you more beautiful balcony.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5024054264431700451?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5024054264431700451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5024054264431700451&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5024054264431700451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5024054264431700451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/07/plants-on-my-balcony.html' title='Plants on my balcony'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SlN4hC32bZI/AAAAAAAAAHI/M6JvJJsYVug/s72-c/la7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-1544436233669572804</id><published>2009-06-28T17:25:00.028+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:37:25.328+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Shirred summer dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;These dresses are all around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Everyone is wearing them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I said: Why not. I can make one for myself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.threadbanger.com/episode/THR_20080801" style="color: #33ff33;"&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is very useful instruction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;In new &lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/luftig-leicht-urlaubsstimmung-07-2009_aid_2729.html"&gt;Burda issue (7/2009.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burdastyle/luftig-leicht-urlaubsstimmung-07-2009_aid_2729.html"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;is one shirred dress pattern, too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLz2hvjGI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/UiONHgzR1m8/s1600-h/za1.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352400405079755874" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLz2hvjGI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/UiONHgzR1m8/s400/za1.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeMJo3o1sI/AAAAAAAAAFg/iuHYcOxszqg/s1600-h/za2.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352400779370616514" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeMJo3o1sI/AAAAAAAAAFg/iuHYcOxszqg/s400/za2.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;And this is mine version.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLovCy9EI/AAAAAAAAAFI/_gfbFsyXBsQ/s1600-h/394.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352400214092346434" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLovCy9EI/AAAAAAAAAFI/_gfbFsyXBsQ/s400/394.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" face="arial" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Smocked part is till the waist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLj5taTBI/AAAAAAAAAFA/RqLtRzXx0eo/s1600-h/395.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352400131056094226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLj5taTBI/AAAAAAAAAFA/RqLtRzXx0eo/s400/395.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I am not completely satisfied with the length.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Maybe I will add a ruffled hem at the bottom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Think, it will&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;be better in maxi version.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;*******&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt;You probably know about&lt;span style="color: #009900;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://frogsinabucket.blogspot.com/2008/04/flower-power.html" style="color: #33ff33;"&gt;THIS&lt;/a&gt; masterpieces of smocked dresses?&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I would like to have this skill.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;One day maybe,until then I can only watch and dream.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt;Dream, &lt;a href="http://frogsinabucket.blogspot.com/2008/04/poodle-bishop-done.html" style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;dream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://frogsinabucket.blogspot.com/2008/04/sneak-peek.html" style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;dream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-1544436233669572804?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/1544436233669572804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=1544436233669572804&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/1544436233669572804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/1544436233669572804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/shirred-summer-dress.html' title='Shirred summer dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkeLz2hvjGI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/UiONHgzR1m8/s72-c/za1.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-5427647177144070472</id><published>2009-06-24T20:26:00.019+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:30:16.214+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Wrap-over dresses</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJwWsTgpaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/IM4V9D5SIlI/s1600-h/wo1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350962842421994914" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJwWsTgpaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/IM4V9D5SIlI/s400/wo1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 316px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;The pattern is from&lt;span style="color: #006600;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.burdastyle.de/magazine/burda-modemagazin/02-2007_bsmid_43.html"&gt;Burda (2/2007.)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJwk3TaE8I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/EkjDLcTig1g/s1600-h/wo2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350963085892522946" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJwk3TaE8I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/EkjDLcTig1g/s400/wo2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 304px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;I used it two years ago, and I am still gladly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;wearing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt; that dress.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;So, I decided to repeat this project TWICE this year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Dress is absolutely adorable. It's very easy to sew and so comfortable to wear.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;It has short raglan sleeves and there’s no need for a zipper.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;It is made of cotton jersey.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJxbO7M96I/AAAAAAAAAEY/HDb1hgP4mMg/s1600-h/woz2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350964019946387362" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJxbO7M96I/AAAAAAAAAEY/HDb1hgP4mMg/s400/woz2.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;The green dress is the same as the pattern,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;brown has some changes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJyMgZKFbI/AAAAAAAAAEg/pdtRzP7xO_o/s1600-h/wob1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350964866449020338" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJyMgZKFbI/AAAAAAAAAEg/pdtRzP7xO_o/s400/wob1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Due to errors in the fabric, which I later found, I had to turn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;lap of the dress to the other side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;The next time I have to be careful when being purchases fabric. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJ0WAtlDMI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hYmG-oQ2g5I/s1600-h/wob2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350967228766686402" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJ0WAtlDMI/AAAAAAAAAE4/hYmG-oQ2g5I/s400/wob2.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt; &lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I did not sew the belt that was in the instructions, and mine dresses are little longer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Cut size 36 (I am between 36 and 38) One size lower is perfect for this pattern.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 78%;"&gt; I  recommend this pattern. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-5427647177144070472?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/5427647177144070472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=5427647177144070472&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5427647177144070472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/5427647177144070472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/wrap-over-dresses.html' title='Wrap-over dresses'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SkJwWsTgpaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/IM4V9D5SIlI/s72-c/wo1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-9000556826723018142</id><published>2009-06-19T16:38:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T09:42:56.069+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><title type='text'>Messenger bag</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sjukdj1YDbI/AAAAAAAAACw/PO521Jmcpl8/s1600-h/mbag.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sjukdj1YDbI/AAAAAAAAACw/PO521Jmcpl8/s400/mbag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349049810174873010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 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 &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:595.3pt 841.9pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:35.4pt;  mso-footer-margin:35.4pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The pattern is &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://www.burdastyle.com/patterns/show/3829"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.I downloaded it for free year ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This is a messenger bag &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;for my niece.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face  {font-family:Wingdings;  panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;  mso-font-charset:2;  mso-generic-font-family:auto;  mso-font-pitch:variable;  mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;}  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;She wants&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;a bag, roomy enough for her English exercise book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This wasn't a problem.I immediately decided ,that will be messenger bag.But the second wish was a challenge for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; Not pink and no crazy colors and patterns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Well,I thought,with the black you can't make a mistake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Black and white are not colors,and red is just one color. &lt;span style=""&gt;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Letter pattern is not too crazy. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjuksPeTzMI/AAAAAAAAAC4/lp3OiyKQViE/s1600-h/ms.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjuksPeTzMI/AAAAAAAAAC4/lp3OiyKQViE/s400/ms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349050062407453890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;And here it is ....My version of "reasonable" bag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjuliCOrdsI/AAAAAAAAADg/Bm3ZrJSAA8A/s1600-h/ms5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjuliCOrdsI/AAAAAAAAADg/Bm3ZrJSAA8A/s400/ms5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349050986565170882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sjulek6fXlI/AAAAAAAAADY/Ov4TgJiZh9A/s1600-h/ms4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sjulek6fXlI/AAAAAAAAADY/Ov4TgJiZh9A/s400/ms4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349050927156256338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjulVoqZ-iI/AAAAAAAAADI/VIUX0yUDJs8/s1600-h/ms1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjulVoqZ-iI/AAAAAAAAADI/VIUX0yUDJs8/s400/ms1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349050773543713314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjulZiBT0fI/AAAAAAAAADQ/GM92JuFbIz8/s1600-h/ms3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjulZiBT0fI/AAAAAAAAADQ/GM92JuFbIz8/s400/ms3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349050840480207346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;I hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;that young lady will be satisfied. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:595.3pt 841.9pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:35.4pt;  mso-footer-margin:35.4pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-9000556826723018142?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/9000556826723018142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=9000556826723018142&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/9000556826723018142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/9000556826723018142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/messenger-bag.html' title='Messenger bag'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sjukdj1YDbI/AAAAAAAAACw/PO521Jmcpl8/s72-c/mbag.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-4278912026488695226</id><published>2009-06-12T22:24:00.020+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T16:57:25.309+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='etsy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='necklace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='perfect cut'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Tunic dress</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Just perfect summer dress. Pattern is from Burda and you can freely download it &lt;a href="http://www.burdafashion.com/en/Downloads/Free/1333669-1413206-1597830.html"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is available in size 34-44.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK8DpG_hTI/AAAAAAAAACg/fviWeJGj1AI/s1600-h/000001648569.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 396px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK8DpG_hTI/AAAAAAAAACg/fviWeJGj1AI/s400/000001648569.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346542478403011890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;I sew it from elastic jersey, and made some changes. Since material was jersey there was no need for zip fastener.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK6bHebtrI/AAAAAAAAACI/CMtAa0yN7gM/s1600-h/h2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK6bHebtrI/AAAAAAAAACI/CMtAa0yN7gM/s400/h2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346540682668127922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;First, I cut front and back yoke from jersey fabric, but then realized that fabric is too elastic and front and back parts of dress are too heavy. I decided to use black cotton fabric (and for inside yoke as well). That was good solution. My dress is 60 cm length from waist and with elastic in sleeves hem. (A model)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK6kUl0MfI/AAAAAAAAACQ/uOeDqdO3hPU/s1600-h/h3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK6kUl0MfI/AAAAAAAAACQ/uOeDqdO3hPU/s400/h3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346540840807576050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;I have  suitable necklace for this dress.Black Plexiglas-mirror pendant on rubber cord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK6orv-AaI/AAAAAAAAACY/gmqyX47dD58/s1600-h/h4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK6orv-AaI/AAAAAAAAACY/gmqyX47dD58/s400/h4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346540915743654306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Same necklace   you can find in my &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6358676"&gt;Perfect cut shop&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me, model :)&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjTwXQfSi4I/AAAAAAAAACo/lRqkGBa5ja8/s1600-h/mod.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjTwXQfSi4I/AAAAAAAAACo/lRqkGBa5ja8/s400/mod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347162939949484930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;am sewing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;two dresses from elastic jersey, but about that in next post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-4278912026488695226?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/4278912026488695226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=4278912026488695226&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4278912026488695226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/4278912026488695226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/tunic-dress.html' title='Tunic dress'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SjK8DpG_hTI/AAAAAAAAACg/fviWeJGj1AI/s72-c/000001648569.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-8488561720771057945</id><published>2009-06-07T14:28:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T09:55:23.892+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patterns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='japanese craft books'/><title type='text'>Japanese craft books</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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 margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;I love Japanese craft books. It's really amazing how you can understand every pattern not knowing Japanese. Diagrams and photos are self-explanatory. I wanted this book since I saw it on some blogs, a few years ago. Then, I read perfect review &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" href="http://hungryzombiecouture.blogspot.com/2008/06/japanamania.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Siuz5Vd0HkI/AAAAAAAAAB4/7W-7_0qjvsA/s1600-h/simple-chic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Siuz5Vd0HkI/AAAAAAAAAB4/7W-7_0qjvsA/s400/simple-chic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344563180401335874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Finally, book is on my sewing table. And, I am not disappointed. All patterns are simple chic, like the title says. I plan to sew all of them. Well, maybe it is ambitious plan, but resolution is resolution and I am very obstinate person. Probably, in my version, it will be "simple and kitsch," but I can not help it. I am crazy about colors and patterns.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p  class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;Some  pictures&lt;/span&gt; of other people's already finished projects you can see &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" href="http://japancouture.canalblog.com/archives/livre_02/index.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-8488561720771057945?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/8488561720771057945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=8488561720771057945&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/8488561720771057945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/8488561720771057945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-craft-books.html' title='Japanese craft books'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Siuz5Vd0HkI/AAAAAAAAAB4/7W-7_0qjvsA/s72-c/simple-chic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-7827081514740141808</id><published>2009-06-05T08:30:00.023+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T09:48:15.364+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earrings'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lace'/><title type='text'>Half-circle skirt</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:""; 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  &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt; 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  &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;However, useful information can be found &lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" href="http://articles.glittersweet.com/howto/skirttutorial.htm"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijA37axgOI/AAAAAAAAABM/LSaGjoeCZYM/s1600-h/z8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijA37axgOI/AAAAAAAAABM/LSaGjoeCZYM/s400/z8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343733024950419682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;I decided to sew it when I found the fabric with the printed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;circle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijAOkJElNI/AAAAAAAAAA8/X4KZVRHu30M/s1600-h/z4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijAOkJElNI/AAAAAAAAAA8/X4KZVRHu30M/s400/z4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343732314327520466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the edge of the skirt, I added a gold lace. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sii_SZ_idSI/AAAAAAAAAAc/bzOo6PG4QAs/s1600-h/z1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sii_SZ_idSI/AAAAAAAAAAc/bzOo6PG4QAs/s400/z1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343731280811029794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;That laces, my mother has bought 35 years ago in Bulgaria, where we spent happy summer holidays. &lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;All these years I was searching for perfect place for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I think I finally found it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijAcBoZc5I/AAAAAAAAABE/ihhQjZVZqrs/s1600-h/z6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijAcBoZc5I/AAAAAAAAABE/ihhQjZVZqrs/s400/z6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343732545581839250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;Of course, I bought suitable sandals. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijAB7O0F8I/AAAAAAAAAA0/9KF0_UCM-28/s1600-h/z3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijAB7O0F8I/AAAAAAAAAA0/9KF0_UCM-28/s400/z3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343732097187321794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"  class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;And finally....I made a pair of matching earrings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sii_uzHA1dI/AAAAAAAAAAs/jwNIQaQlhnA/s1600-h/z2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sii_uzHA1dI/AAAAAAAAAAs/jwNIQaQlhnA/s400/z2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343731768589604306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"  &gt;Now, I am ready. :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-7827081514740141808?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/7827081514740141808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=7827081514740141808&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7827081514740141808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/7827081514740141808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/half-circle-skirt.html' title='Half-circle skirt'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SijA37axgOI/AAAAAAAAABM/LSaGjoeCZYM/s72-c/z8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-6732088791468451719</id><published>2009-06-04T11:51:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T09:52:21.910+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lady lina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='welcome'/><title type='text'>Welcome</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" &gt;Hello and welcome to Lina's Land.&lt;br /&gt;This is my virtual land, the place where I can create, dream and play.&lt;br /&gt;In real world I am a mother of one teenage boy and wife of one middle-age husband.&lt;br /&gt;I live in beautiful town Dubrovnik at the Adriatic coast. I love to sew, crochet, bake cakes… I love to make things.&lt;br /&gt;This blog will be about sewing, crochet, fashion and other things I love. I hope it will help me to organize all my "creative" projects. And of course, helps me to improve my English.&lt;br /&gt;Till then I will let pictures to speak for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SieZ24xQ1vI/AAAAAAAAAAU/l8pNuxIAZa4/s1600-h/Dubrovnik_panorama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 83px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SieZ24xQ1vI/AAAAAAAAAAU/l8pNuxIAZa4/s320/Dubrovnik_panorama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343408651129378546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-6732088791468451719?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/6732088791468451719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=6732088791468451719&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6732088791468451719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/6732088791468451719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/welcome.html' title='Welcome'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/SieZ24xQ1vI/AAAAAAAAAAU/l8pNuxIAZa4/s72-c/Dubrovnik_panorama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3172587311670851494.post-8656263605258938372</id><published>2009-06-03T19:00:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T09:45:49.654+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Finally I dared!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Siat8N7vFqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/OZ9PaLlee7A/s1600-h/3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Siat8N7vFqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/OZ9PaLlee7A/s320/3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343149257965639330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-no-proof:yes;} @page Section1  {size:595.3pt 841.9pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;  mso-header-margin:35.4pt;  mso-footer-margin:35.4pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm; 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 &lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;My English is not the best but I'll try to improve it.This will be a good practice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;                   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3172587311670851494-8656263605258938372?l=ladylinaland.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/feeds/8656263605258938372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3172587311670851494&amp;postID=8656263605258938372&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/8656263605258938372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3172587311670851494/posts/default/8656263605258938372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/2009/06/finally-i-dared.html' title='Finally I dared!'/><author><name>Lina</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02177412317426443486</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Sit9FcfBkhI/AAAAAAAAABY/P1wTR_AeZgI/S220/cm2.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vd2TLQINQaA/Siat8N7vFqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/OZ9PaLlee7A/s72-c/3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
