Holiday sewing spoils.

So frivolous in these current times to talk of spoils and seems so long ago when we were on holidays but I started this a couple of months ago and things just went crazy since we came home on 9 January. My Mum went into hospital two days after we left (28 November) and had been home two weeks but is in hospital again and tomorrow will move into a nursing home. I'm really sad for her about that. She has so many complications from her rheumatoid arthritis medications that she has every high risk issue - heart disease, lung disease, liver disease, diabetes and the reason she is now going into the nursing home is osteoporosis - she has fractured 5 bones in her lower and thoracic spine and needs a lot of care. She could be home but home help is not able to come in now so this is the option. My Mother has been so healthy in her life, super active and did absolutely everything at home, which is where I got my love and need to make, do and fix things. She has only had this disease for about 7 years which is quite unusual as it normally presents much earlier (she was in her 70's) but it has eaten her from the inside out. Sorry for the downer, it's a lot for us to take in and cope with in this strange time.

Onto the spoils. I tried really hard to find sewing magazines. We were in Germany for the majority of our holiday and even though we were there spanning 2 months, I could only find one months magazines. The other thing, other than the obvious that they are in German, is that it is mostly winter stuff. Heck in Brisbane today, Autumn, it's 30 degrees celsius so don't know that I'll need too many coats, but there are a lot of coats in the first magazine below and really nice ones. I got the 4 below. Silly me should have worked out to buy the Burda in Ireland where we went next, but I did look and couldn't get any there anyway. They were out of the January one by the time we left.

I love the dress above and have some nice ponte sort of stuff that might work. It seems to be a style that is in at the moment.

This simple wrap hoodie is like my green Ottobre one I made but a bit longer. I may try this one for a work cover as it's freezing in our office.

I really love the white shirt above. I think this will be really useful in our winter - not that we can go out.

This is another nice outfit - simple pants and another nice tope with some lovely details.

I love this coat and I have some kelly green wool I'd love to make it with but the way it's going with the heat I won't need it, still I may try.

Love this skirt and top too. The top has lovely cuff details and I really love the swishy skirt. She looks about 3 metres tall so I'll need to shorten this by half I'll bet as I'm only 158cm.

Above is the tech drawings for the first magazine. There are also some lovely girls patterns too. 

These pattern sheets are the ones for the 2nd magazine above. Looks like a mix of some McCall's (lace dress) and other big 4. Some great coat patterns there too which I think are Simplicity patterns and Mimi G is Simplicity too.

My favourite gift to myself is the little spool rack I bought in a beautiful little gift/ coffee shop just near the Cliffs of Moher. They had loads of beautiful hand woven blankets, beautiful wool capes and jumpers but I just couldn't justify the cost as we could never use them here. I love my spool rack though. I am going to stop here, there are some other things I want to talk about from my holiday and I'll make another post.

Stay well friends. Wash your hand, keep your distances and keep sewing. :)