craftfail Archives - Bliss and Blisters

Sewing

Mind the stretch is all I say – sewing a longarm shirt

15. February 2022 By Simone Neumann

I love when people look sophisticated and put together. I love looking at people who wear an „outfit“ not only some garments, I love to explore other peoples style. And I really really also want to look like this. So, when I visited the fabric shop to buy more of the pink fleece for my […]

Knitting

Mysterious Mistakes in Knitted Cardigan

27. April 2021 By Simone Neumann

Do you believe me when I tell you I do not want to write about mistakes I make while crafting? Again…? While I woke up today, I envisioned this wonderful post about a cardigan I knitted. It is a pattern from this lovely book: I started the cardigan a long time ago, but for some […]

Sewing

How to transform an ill fitting dress

15. September 2020 By Simone Neumann

Every Monday I tell myself, today I will only write a short update on my projects. And then I end with taking excessively photos and writing my fingers of, this Monday is no exception. I am currently working on three sewing projects, an Asuka Hamada dress (already finished and killed), a copycat sweater (nearly finished) […]

simone holding up a funny fabric with a bee pattern

Sewing

The unobtrusive bee dress – a sewing adventure

18. August 2020 By Simone Neumann

Holidays are over and the dire life of writing and posting has me back… or wait… I guess its not dire at all, as I love to write and even more to talk with you. So far all is more than well, but my sewing, that is another story… I wanted to come back and […]

Simone wearing a handmade oversized crochet cardigan in mint

Sewing

Comedy crafting during summer slump

7. July 2020 By Simone Neumann

After finishing the Karlene blouse I am in a crafting slump: I jump uninspired from one knitting project to the next, only knitting a few stitches, I decided on a new summer dress to sew but stopped mid tracing only to start a different sewing project (copying an existing dress, did not work out, looks […]

Simone, smiling widely, holding up the yoke of her Karlene blouse

Sewing

Karlene undone

23. June 2020 By Simone Neumann

Part two of my sewing adventure with the karlene dress from Fibremood. I had good tips, I had good will I even had help but look how my Karlene blouse looks now: There was no way around ripping. In sewing (other than knitting or crochet) I try to follow the pattern’s instructions to a t; […]

Sewing

The gaping neckline on Karlene dress

16. June 2020 By Simone Neumann

Woven fabric struck back on Karlene dress It happened again. After last week’s success in sewing a sweater for my husband the sewing nemesis named „woven fabric“ struck back. I made a blouse and it did not fit … as I said… again. This time I wanted to make the dress Karlene from Fibremood. A […]

Knitting

One step forward, two steps backward – should I frog again?

23. July 2019 By Simone Neumann

“One step forward, two steps backward” is not only Max Romeos way to describe how he is entangled in the swamp of Babylon, no it is me and my relationship with the Fake Frankie cardigan. Everything with this cardigan is bumpy. First, I could not get the neckline width right. I unraveled several times to […]

Crochet

Crocheting a Frankencoinster

18. June 2019 By Simone Neumann

I am afraid… I am afraid that you will notice that I am an imposter, that I am barely able to hold a hook… Because I crocheted a Frankencoinster. Last week I tried myself at this alleged „relaxing“ woven mandala. And it relaxed me so intensely that I needed some sweet balm tee and many […]

Sewing

Beware of the A-Line skirt: making the Delphine skirt from Tilly Walnes

28. May 2019 By Simone Neumann

An A-Line skirt is perfect: Easy to make, will flatter every figure and is a great addition to a capsule wardrobe. I have read these lines many times on blogs, magazines and recently in a sewing book I got for my birthday. And guess what: it’s a lie. These A-line skirts are from hell, or […]