Domestic sewing machines can create very good quality buttonholes. With this tutorial I want to show you how to create them.

To create a buttonhole we need the following materials: buttons, pins, scissors, fabric or the garment to which you want to add the button, a seam ripper (not pictured) and buttonhole foot.

We will start by removing the leg seam of our sewing machines and post the buttonhole foot.

Then we have to mark on the fabric the length of the buttonhole that we want to create (the exact size is the button size plus 5mm to let the button breathe).

Our sewing machines offer 3 steps to create the buttonholes. Before we start sewing the buttonhole we must adjust to step 1 and adjust the stitch length to 0.5 mm (in this case I selected a stitch much wider so you can see the layout).

We will start sewing making zigzag on the left side of the buttonhole until we reach the bottom. We must ensure that the last stitch is on the left side of the zigzag and the needle is out of the fabric.

Then we will adjust the step buttonhole 2 and we will stitch 5 times the end of the buttonhole. We must ensure that the needle end on the right side.

After we must adjust the sewing machine to the buttonhole step 3 and we will sew a zigzag line to the top. Once we have reached the top end, we will adjust the step to buttonhole 2 and make about five stitches to end the seam.

Finally, aided with a seam ripper we will open the buttonhole carefully.

I love white dresses for summer looks, fresh, comfortable and elegant. So to start this summer weekend I want to share with you these looks that I found on Pinterest.

In a month I will finish the new Fall Winter collection and it will be my first collection as a professional. In this moment I am feeling excited, nervous and a little scared at the same time.

Right now I am still working hard and I am looking forward to show you all the clothes I have created very soon.

Normal people go to the flea markets to buy antique furniture, vintage books or clothes … I go there to buy old patterns. Often I do not use them for anything but they are so inspiring that I can not stop buying them.

Also, as my collection grows, I discover the fashion secrets of the 60′s, the shapes of the 70′s and I’m falling for the 80′s patterns (which I believed  impossible).

Although I would love to visit some Parisian flea market to find some french patterns from the 60′s.

Audrey Hepburn had a somewhat hectic love life, married twice, had long relationships with some of the leading men of her time and even jilted a millionaire within a few days of marriage. But it was a faithful friend of her friends.

Hubert de Givenchy was one of these great friends. The designer was commissioned to dress the actress in all her great movies, thanks to him we have some of the scenes that marked the twentieth century cinema and their friendship lasted until the death of the actress.

The relationship between them was so intense that their working collaborations became art. Nobody dress like Audrey the creations that Givenchy designed and nobody as Givenchy understood the Audrey’s  simple elegance.

In this post I show some pictures of the actress fittings in the Givenchy maison.

Summer it is almost here and we are looking forward to dress new, beautiful, cool and comfortable clothes. In this tutorial I want to show you how to create a simply skirt.

To create this skirt we need the following materials: scissors, needles, a needle pin, a headband and five feet of the fabric we have chosen.

Then take the following measures: the long skirt that we want (in my case 54cm) and width of our waist (in my case 66cm). Then cut off the fabric as a rectangle measuring the lenght that you have chosen (in my case 54cm long) keeping in mind we are going to lose about 8 cm for the seams) by the double size of your waist less 10cm (in my case by 122cm).

Before starting to sew we will cut the elastic band to fit exactlye your waist size (I recommend that the length of the elastic band would be about 4 cm shorter than  your real waist that fits securely to your body).

We will begin by folding the skirt in half and sew the open edge forming a tight orbit. Remember to leave 1.5 cm seam allowance and end with a zigzag stitch.

Now that we have created a circular tube with the fabric we will take one edge and make a 4cm hem.

At the other edge, which corresponds to the waist, we should create a hem of about 4cm too and sew around leaving a 5cm opening so we can pass the elastic band.

Then we will pass the elastic waist and it will go through within the waist hem until it has done a full circle.

We will sew the two ends of the elastic band with a zigzag stitch. 

finally we will close the waist hem.

And our skirt will be ready for summer.

I show you a small sample of the collection that I have created for this season. This time I handmade with lots of love a few items. As all my collections the clothes are very romantic and feminine. 

Select the fabrics that we will use for our sewing projects is one of the funniest parts of the whole process. It stirs the imagination and as we learn how to combine colors we have more and more fun. But before we start cutting the tissues we have to wash and iron them.

Just after buy the fabrics, they  must be washed. Some fabrics are machine washable (most of the cottons for example) and others have to be handwashed (for example if they are delicate fabrics).

Also after washing the fabrics, they should be ironed properly, so we can not cut a pattern on a fabric if this has not been pressed.

Normally when we buy new fabrics we eager to start using them but these two prior simple steps are really important so that our sewing projects will look better.

There are key trends that are always a must like stripes. I just love them…

This week I celebrated my 30th birthday (already sounds a little scary). But far from any crisis, in my opinion the best is yet to come, I got excited thinking on the new challenges this new decade will bring to me.

To celebrate my birthday I made me some little presents as go to eat a delicious cupcake in this cafe in Berlin.