Feb 11, 2013

Dugo se nismo gledali / Long time no see

Davno je bilo kada sam postavila svoju sliku na blog, možda ste do sada zaboravili kako izgledam :-). Kada sam upisala TR kurs, nisam imala mnogo vremena da dodatno šijem. Radila sam na haljini sa zmijskim printom, i završila je, davno, ali nisam imala prilike da je uslikam. Kada se kurs završio, požurila sam da dovršim započeto, pa sam sinoć napravila poslenje šavove na kaputu o kom sam pisala ranije. Zapravo, to je više mantil nego kaput, budući da je od pamučnog kepera. Još uvek je hladno za šetkanje u mantilićima, pa sam se uslikala ispred svoje zgrade i brže-bolje vratila nazad u stan, da se zgrejem. Kaput mi se mnogo dopada. Jedina korekcija koju bih bih uradila je da produžim rukave za otprilike 2 cm, jer su mi za nijansu kraći od optimalne dužine. Uz kaput sam obukla i pomenutu haljinu, da vam pokažem da sam je završila i da veoma lepo izgleda. Nisam se usudila da skinem mantil po zimi, tako da ćete samo delimično moći da je vidite, ali biće još prilike.

It's been a long time since I last posted a photo of me on the blog, you might have forgotten how I looked :-). When I enrolled the TR Masterclass I didn't have much time for additional sewing. I did work on the snake print dress, and actually finished it, but I didn't have the time to snap some photos of it.When the course ended, I hurried to finish the started, and last night I made the final stitches on the coat I wrote about before. It's more a trench coat than a coat since it's made of cotton twill. Still being too cold to go out in a light trench, I quickly snapped a few photos in front of my building and hurried back home to warm. I really like the coat. The only thing I wish I had done different relates to sleeves length, it would have been better if they were 2cm longer. I wore the snake print dress under the coat, to show you it's finished and it looks good. I didn't dare to take off the coat on this weather, so you'll see just a part of it.