Saturday, October 18, 2008

What shall I wear?4 and more, .... Dutch..

Hi everyone,
Today I want to wear this,

part of What shall I wear?

This piece is also made from second hand Oilily clothes and fabric. like the trousers, I made a stitchery as well from this one. Maybe I'll make a little blanket when all the stitcheries are finished.

stitchery, what shall I wear?

If anyone would be interested, I could perhaps sell the patterns. Well, we'll think about that.
There are a lot of places you can inspired, by other bloggers, Flickr, other cultures etc.. Today I'll show a bit of my own inspiration. It's a great old book from 1947,

Traditional Dutch clothes

It's about old wind mills and Dutch traditional clothing. The book has these beautiful old coloured glued pictures. Look for yourself,

Traditional Dutch clothes

Traditional Dutch clothes

Dutch old traditional clothes

I hope you enjoy looking at them s much as I do.. and yes there ar a lot of these in the book to but I'll only show you this one,

wind molens

Well This was enough Dutch for today! There is only a little peek of 4 new bags I'm working on left to show you...

a peek of new bags

Good days to all of you,

17 comments:

Unknown said...

how wonderful! I would like to wear it also!!!!

Eileen said...

When I first opened your blog and saw the picture of the skating dress, I immediately thought "Oilily". Then I read your words! This is really the cutes thing. I bet you could sell patterns for it.

Hey!.. I think I have some fabric that looks just like the little girl's cover/apron in that book.. the red and white plaid one. SO adorable. This is my very favorite era. And I think I could stare at those windmill pictures all day. I wish I lived in a wind mill. :-)
But only if it were made to be a house, not an actual mill!

Cornfield Quilter said...

I am a first time visitor to your blog and it is wonderful! I will be visiting again, your work is exquisite. :D

Unknown said...

Heleen, I am going to have to have a bag for each season! I had better start saving! Thank you for posting the book photos. They are lovely! Elizabeth

Dotty said...

Love the dress for your quilt, o love coming to your blogg it is so inspriring. I always want to run upstairs and get on my machine! :)

I love those fabrics for your new bags.!

Unknown said...

very pretty and I love those vintage pictures, happy weekend Heleen :D

Unknown said...

The windmills are something that I always connect to your country. What you learned in school, also the tulips and the wooden clogs. Now I also think of you and your sister and Oilily (and of course I know a little bit more about your country) :)

Anonymous said...

Wat mooi allemaal! Zowel de kleertjes als de plaatjes uit het boek.

Anonymous said...

wat een geweldig inspirerend boek

Jikkes said...

Ik ben zo benieuwd naar de tassen...
De kleurtjes zijn in ieder geval om van te smullen.

sewkalico said...

Very interesting to see your inspiration.

Jenny said...

Lovely inspiration for your beautiful stitching-the new bags look like they will be great too!

LiLi M. said...

Dat boek is leuk!! Ja jouw creaties natuurlijk ook hoor! Ik denk dat ze bij Oilily dat boek ook kennen, weet je nog dat ze een paar jaar geleden allemaal van die klederdracht geinspireerde stoffen en zeepdozen hadden? Ehem paar jaar? Ik bedenk me nu dat mijn dochter zo'n babyjurkje had (hebben we natuurlijk nog) en die wordt 15 dit jaar!

Splashes of Pink and Mint said...

Dit is nou eens een super hollandse post! Wat een leuke plaatjes zeg, dat geeft toch weer een hoop inspiratie! Ben ook weer benieuwd naar je tassen, ze zijn elke keer weer een lust voor het oog!

Anonymous said...

Wat een heerlijk logje!
ik heb genoten van alle plaatjes.
:o)

MariecusBruyn said...

Nou, wat is de klederdracht er op een tiental jaren anders gaan uitzien! Gelukkig maar voor mij, want hoewel ik nu wel rokken draag, ben ik altijd een broeken-meid geweest!
De foto van je nieuwe tassen laat wel heel veel aan de fantasie over, he. Wat kan je ons toch nieuwsgierig maken naar je resultaat...

A Spoonful Of Sugar said...

Love the appliqued dress - thanks for sharing your inspiration!