old skirt new bag

my new laptop bag - collaboration with vas krojac

two winters ago

i bought a vintage wool plaid skirt

loved the shape of it, loved the colors

was pretty sure i'll wear the hell out of it

but from some reason poor thing just hung in my closet 

..

so i was thinking to myself

'that skirt needs to find a new owner

or to become something other than a skirt'

..

 first instinct was to turn it into shorts

because i turn everything into shorts nowadays

..

but then i bought a piece of leather

and seeing it together with the plaid wool skirt

all of a sudden i realized i need a new laptop bag

well.. not new, cause i never really had an old laptop bag

but wore my laptop around

in a silly beach bag, tucked into various scarfs and crap
so, yes i really really needed a proper laptop bag
(and why is it so damn hard to find a good looking laptop bag?
and even if you do find one
it's either too expensive
or too small for a 17 inch laptop)

..

new plan had only one problem

my sewing machine is not strong enough

to sew trough the wool, leather and really thick double denim quilted lining

so that's where my friend boris

(who just opened a brand new tailoring shop called 'vas krojac'

meaning 'your tailor' in serbian)

came into story

..

idea was to sew the bag in his studio

using his industrial sewing machines

but somehow i ended up doing nothing 

but jabbering and taking photos

while boris did all the work himself 

..

and boris did pretty damn good job, i think
so good, in fact
that we're thinking we should team up
and make a collection of laptop bags
(we actually received our very first order!)
..
mokosha 

evil eye

dress - self made

last year

my virtual kalkatroonian sister and i

exchanged boxes full of goodies

there were dresses and fabrics inside my box

and then, there was this chiffon with evil eye print

whole 5 meters of it!

i loved all of  the prizes from that magic box

but with this chiffon i got obsessed!

it has to be made into something really special

something i'll love more than my other makes

..

so i waited and waited for the right pattern to show up

and there it was, in december issue of burda 2013

..

don't remember ever being so excited about sewing project

or so obsessed

all of the bodice parts are lined in self fabric

so all the pieces has to be cut twice

but look like only one layer when basted together

 (meaning print has to match precisely

not an easy thing with such fidgety fabric)

..

and, since i got so obsessed,

when i started to feel tired

instead of going to bed

i couldn't stop working on dress

it has to be finished!

so, around 2 am

when it was finally done (all seams serged)

 i tried it on

and realized that i managed to sew one of the sleeves inside out

and now the pattern direction is totally off

(funny thing is, that i marked the 'right' sides of the sleeves

to prevent this disaster

since the fabric looks the same on both sides

and since i marked them

i felt there is no need to double-check is everything ok)

..

anyways

mistakes or not

this is still my favorite make ever!

..

mokosha

sicilian dress

 

  

dress - self made

when i first saw pattern for this dress

back in march issue of  burda 2009

i immediately thought that it looks

a - slightly like a 30's dress and

b - kind of sicilian

..

not that i have ever been to italy

let alone sicily,

so i don't really know what sicilian ladies wear

and still, it looked sicilian to me

and it still does, five years later

..

ideal backdrop for my sicilian dress

would be a cobblestone street

in golden hour

and yes, we do have a few of nice looking

cobblestone streets in belgrade

but morning golden hour is kind of too early in a day for me

while evening golden hour tend to be crowded in any of those streets

 and i prefer doing my tripod shooting routine in private

..

so.. i took my photos at high noon

using my usual backdrop of neighbourhood ruin..

i'll totally understand if you don't get my sicilian vibe

..

mokosha

year three

year three

was less about crazy colored dresses..

but i did make a few

..as well as few crazy colored shirts

year three was more about shorts 

leggings

pants 

non colors 

unusual shapes

sewing for the boy

and food making

enter year four!
feeling super excited to find out what you'll be like!

year one
year two