Strömming Design

Vi er altid på udkig efter nye lækre design, og når vi så finder noget ekstra lækkert der også er produceret under samme økologiske forhold som vores eget bliver vi meget begejstret.
Derfor er vi rigtig glade for nu at kunne fortælle at vi nu har indgået et samarbejde med svenske Strömming Design og er begyndt at forhandle deres nye designs i vores webshop og vores butik.

Vi starter med de 7 designs du kan se her under, og de er allerede nu at finde i vores webshop. Er de ikke fantastiske!?!

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We are always looking for new beautiful design's, and when we find something extra cool also produced under the same ecological conditions as our own, we are very excited.
Therefore, we are very pleased now to announce that we have partnered with Swedish Strömming Design and are now offering their new designs in our web-shop and our store.

We are starting with these seven designs that you can see below. They are already in the webshop.  I We think they are amazing, don't you ?!?

Bloome Copenhagen LOVES Andrea Lauren..

Ja vi elsker Andrea Laurens fantastiske designs og det kan ses i vores næste kollektion, 4 fede designs i tilsammen 15 farver. Denne gang har vi igen valgt at trykke på isoli (Sweatshirt Knit) kvaliteten er fantastisk blød og lækker. Det bliver Puffin i tre farver og Camping Bear i to farver der bliver trykt på isoli. 

Resten bliver trykt på samme fantastiske kvalitet Jersey som vi plejer at producere. 

Yes we absolutely love Andrea Lauren's amazing designs, and it shows in our new collection. 4 different designs in 15 different color schemes. The puffins and Camping Bears will be printed on sweatshirt knit and the feathers and raccoons on our amazing single jersey. 

They will be in stock in mid August. 

More Elvelyckan Design

Finally all our beautiful fabric designed by Stephanie Elvelyckan came from the printing house. For the first time we had them make sweatshirt knit and I promise you it won't be the last, I just love the quality. I'm told that 35 is to old to have a jumpsuit in the racoon's, but is it really??!

Så fik vi endelig alt det fantastiske stof designet af Stephanie Elvalyckan hjem fra trykkeriet. Og vi var ret spændte da det var første gang vi fik lavet isoli, men jeg kan love at det absolut ikke bliver den sidste, det er virkelig en fantastisk kvalitet. Jeg får af vide her hjemme at når man er 35 er man for gammel til at spankulere rundt i vaskebjørne med fjer på hoved, men er man nu også det??! Måske et hjemmesæt, hel sparkedragt med fødder i og det hele, jeg tænker jeg ville blive smart....

Elvelyckan Design

Så kan vi endnu en gang byde velkommen til en ny fantastisk designer, nemlig Stephanie Elvelyckan fra Elvelyckan Design. Vi har været så heldige at få licensen til hendes virkelig søde pandaer med blomsterkrans og vaskebjørne med indianer fjer. Pandaerne vil ligesom resten af vores egen produktion være økologisk (gots) single Jersey 200 g 165 cm bredt. Med vaskebjørnene har vi denne gang prøvet noget nyt, disse er nemlig økologisk isoli (sweatshirt Knit) 250 g 160 cm bredt.

Begge dele er nu at finde som "Pre Sale" i webshoppen til 179 DKK pr meter. Vi forventer at have dem hjemme ca midt juli. Hvilken en er din ynglings?

Now we are so lucky to welcome the amazing Stephanie Elvelyckan from Elvelyckan Design at Bloome Copenhagen. We are now offering two of her beautiful designs in several different color ways. The cute panda with a flower wrench and the raccoon with feathers. The panda's are, as all our previous fabric, organic jersey 200 gr 165 cm wide. But with the raccoon's we have tried something new, they are printed on organic sweatshirt knit 250 gr 160 cm wide, and we are quite excited to see all of them. 

These are now available for Pre Sale on the website, they will be in stock mid July. We just love them all, do you have a favorite? 

Cardigan-Blazer DIY

As promised here is the free DIY on this Cardigan-Blazer-Look-a-like. I hope you will all enjoy it. To all the danes, I didn’t have too much time therefore this DIY is only in english so hopefully everybody can follow. And since English is not my first language you must bear with me.


OK lets go!! First you need a long sleeved t-shirt pattern, and to get the blazer look it needs to be one with regular sleves. I have used one of my own, this one has a bit extra length because I like that long cardigan look. Now it´s time to modify our pattern :)

 

  First we will be modifying the front piece. I like the cardigan to be quite open so I’m going to take off 3 cm of the neckline. Make a mark as shown in the picture below. Make sure that you take of 3 cm in the neckline and NOT in the sleeve. 

Then we will take off 3 cm of the middle edge, (again not the side with the sleeve hole) now draw a line from our shoulder 3 cm mark down to the middle of the middle line. 

 Then we will be taking off 3 cm in the waistline of the pattern.

And then cut of all our markings, and then the front piece is done.

 Now to the backpiece. Again take of 3 cm in the neckline, but this time 3 cm all the way as shown in the picture. And then take off 3 cm in the waistline.

The sleeve does not need to much modification, just take off 4 cm at the bottom of the sleeve.

Now you need to make some cuffs. Fold your sleeve in the middle so you can see how wide it should be.

 

 My sleeve is 10 cm wide as you can see and since i want my final sleeve to be 5 cm I need to draw a square that is 10*10 cm. Then find the middle and draw a line.

 Yet again make a mark, this time on the middle line 1 cm in.

 

Finally you draw from the middle mark to each corner. and cut it out.

Fold your fabric and cut out all the pattern pieces with 1/2 cm seam allowance. 2 front pieces, 2 cuffs against fold, 2 sleeves, 1 back piece against fold. 

Now it is time to sew. Sew all the pieces where I have drawn black lines. Shoulder seem, side seem, sleeves and cuffs. 

Turn the sleeves so the right side is out and fasten them in the sleeve hole with pins so the seem in the sleeve and the side seem match and sew. 

Fold the cuffs in the middle so the right side is out and put them inside the sleeves again so the sleeve seem and the cuff seem match. And sew.

When the cuffs are in, iron the whole thing. Then you need to measure from one shoulder seem all the way around, as my arrows show on the picture, (I know they are not straigt but you hopefully get what I mean) 

My cardigan is 160 cm all the way around, so half of this is 80 cm. If you don´t have enough fabric to cut a piece to fold that is 80 cm, then do as I did an make two identical pieces that i my case are 4 cm long and 8 cm wide. Cut the piece with 1/2 cm seam allowance. And then unfold it and sew the ends together so you have a circle.

Find the middle of the waistline on the back piece and the neckline. 

Add our circle so that the one seam is in the middle of the neckline and the other in the middle of the waistline. Then pin all the way around. It is very important that it´s a perfect match so that the fabric does not stretch. Now sew it on.

Once again its time for the iron, wich is always your best friend when sewing in stretch fabric. 

First you iron the seam, and then fold the collar and iron it and then pin with needles.

Then you sew down the collar along the fold. Iron again and then you are DONE.

I also sew around the cuffs, it looks more profetionel I think :)

 

And here a couple of pictures of my not very happy 5 year old, I made her a infinity scarf as well because this summer in Denmark is really really cold. 

NOW it is time for the fabric. Cut 2 front pieces, 1 backpiece against fold. 2 cuffs against fold an two sleeves. 

Now its time to the sewing part. Sew the shoulder seems, side seems, the sleeves and the cuffs. follow the black lines as I have drawn them on the picture, or you now sew straight ;)