Bird Feeder

 This was an idea caught on Pinterest. The usual ball bought in a supermarket, hanging on a string inside a cage made of sticks. It took me some time to realize that all the joints were not tied with knot in fact. It was connected with a hot melt glue gun! However, the knots are great there anyway, as the glue works the best on rough surface, better than on smooth bark.

I also used a crooked birch branch to hang the feeder so that our balcony stays clean even with the bird visitors coming. At first, the birds were frightened that the cage moves when they fly in and break just before it - it began spinning. But after some time, they got the hang of it and a flock of tits kept coming regularly, having fun on the feeder.

Boxer Shorts

 I bought a bunch of rubber bands with funny writings on them.

I cut the right width and sewed each rubber band to a circle. I tried to flatten the seam as much as possible with two lines of stitches and an extra zig-zag line.

Now to the boxer shorts themselves. The front piece has a slit in the middle. Sewing it together is the first step.

The rest is in one piece. So I sewed one side of the center front piece with the rest at a side seam.

Then I wrapped the big piece so that it would fit inside the smaller...

...so that I could sew them together right sides in.

One short seam at the bottom.

And I hemmed the legs on coverlock machine.

Rubber band is sewed on in an unusual way - wrong sides in!!! Then it's turned over and added one more line of stitches at the rubber band side. The seam is neat from both sides this way. However, this way you mustn't forget to stretch the band while sewing as much as possible. If not, the threads can bread during taking the garment on.

Seven pieces as a weekly set, as a gift for my beloved husband. I can't wait till his birthday already! :-D

Brown Skirt from Leftover Knit

 A small project from scrap knit. I cut out a half circle skirt according to my waist circumpherence.

 I sewed the sides on both the skirt and the rubber band and pinned it by halves together.

I used a technique that I'd learned on boxer shorts - I sew WRONG sides together, like a centimeter from the edge of the rubber band, then I fold the skirt panel down and add one more line of stitches at the very edge of the band. Of course pulling the rubber band a lot so that the seam is stretchy.

The fabric was so nice, dense and super lightweight, that I didn't hem the lower edge.