{"id":32460,"date":"2017-12-01T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/?p=32460"},"modified":"2017-12-01T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T10:41:19","slug":"satw-sewing-around-the-world-sunna-kirsi-helsinki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/01\/satw-sewing-around-the-world-sunna-kirsi-helsinki\/","title":{"rendered":"#SATW Sewing Around The World – Sunna & Kirsi \/ Helsinki"},"content":{"rendered":"

So langsam wird es kalt hier in M\u00fcnchen, der erste Schnee ist schon gefallen! Noch k\u00e4lter ist es sicher in Helsinki, dem n\u00e4chsten Stop auf der Sewing Around The World Tour<\/a>. Hier leben Sunna und Kirsi (ich liebe diese Namen!), deren Blog Mekkotehdas<\/a> – was soviel hei\u00dft wie “Kleiderfabrik” – wir zuf\u00e4llig entdeckt haben.<\/p>\n

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Wir freuen uns sehr, dass auch diese beiden kreativen Bloggerinnen und Buchautorinnen zugesagt haben und nach Asmita aus dem hei\u00dfen Neu-Delhi<\/a> nun ganz aus dem Norden uns Fotos f\u00fcr Sewing Around The World erreicht haben.<\/p>\n

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Ausgesucht haben sich Sunna und Kirsi den Schnitt f\u00fcr den Mantel Joanna, den \u00fcbrigens schon Silvia alias Frau Gold als allerersten Beitrag zu Sewing Around The World<\/a> gen\u00e4ht hat!<\/p>\n

Sunna und Kirsi haben den Mantel Joanna in zwei Varianten gen\u00e4ht: Einmal in der langen Variante aus klassisch ros\u00e9farbenen Wollstoff und kurz aus grauem Pl\u00fcsch – superkuschelig! Beide M\u00e4ntel sind einfach genial und die Fotos machen richtig Lust auf Winterspazierg\u00e4nge im selbst gen\u00e4hten Mantel, oder?<\/p>\n

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Auch wenn der N\u00e4hblog von Sunna und Kirsi <\/a>auf Finnisch ist m\u00f6chten wir ihn Euch sehr ans Herz legen, denn allein die Fotos sind sehr inspirierend! Wie oben schon erw\u00e4hnt, haben die beiden auch schon ein paar B\u00fccher mit eigenen Schnittmustern geschrieben und sind vor allem in Sachen Kinderschnittmuster Experten!<\/p>\n

Wenn du noch mehr \u00fcber die Sunna und Kirsi, ihre “Kleiderfabrik” und ihre Leidenschaft “das N\u00e4hen” wissen m\u00f6chtest – wir haben auch ihnen unser Interview geschickt und sie plaudern ein bisschen aus dem N\u00e4hk\u00e4stchen…<\/p>\n

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Und wir? Wir schicken einen Gru\u00df und ein herzliches Dankesch\u00f6n nach Finnland und freuen und schon auf unseren n\u00e4chste Station…<\/p>\n

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Interview mit Sunna & Kirsi<\/h2>\n

Present yourself a little bit (name, age, children, name of the blog, age, city where you live, what you are doing when you are not sewing, \u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n

We are Kirsi and Sunna, living in Helsinki, capital of Finland. We are friends who both carry a sense of style and similar love for beauty. We are both moms and we get to know each other years ago when our kids went to same ballet lesson. We are both busy with our professions as a school teachers. When we are not working, we are enjoying the family life and stealing sometimes time to sew together.<\/p>\n

Seven years ago we set up a sewing blog Mekkotehdas. During the past years we have published three sewing pattern and DIY books. Our first dress pattern book for little girls called Mekkotehdas (direct translation is Dress Factory) was published in 2012. Since then we have made also pattern books for adults and older kids. Our books have been translated in many languages.<\/p>\n

When did you start to sew and why? How did you learn to sew?<\/em><\/p>\n

We have both sewn as long as we can remember. As a teenagers we made clothes for ourselves and for friends and family members. After a lot of practice and also studies our own kids can enjoy clothes made be their mums.<\/p>\n

What are your favourite clothes? Do you have a fable for something?<\/em><\/p>\n

This is easy question J. \u00a0Beautiful dresses for little girls have always been close to our hearts. Now when our kids have grown up a little and are soon teenagers, we are started to sew all kind of clothes they want to wear.<\/p>\n

What is the sewing project you like the most?<\/em><\/p>\n

There are some dresses we have made for our girls, that we are super proud of. Last year we made them powder pink lace and tulle dresses to the Independence day ball. Also many princess dresses have been saved to the memory boxes.<\/p>\n

Do you only sew for you or also for other people (husband, children, \u2026)?<\/em><\/p>\n

We sew mostly for our kids and sometimes also for the other family members. Nowadays we sew a lot for ourselves as well. We also love to surprise our friends and godchildren by giving them selfmade gifts.<\/p>\n

From where do you get your ideas? Do you buy patterns or do you invent your own ones?<\/em><\/p>\n

When we sew together we mostly create our own patterns. We get ideas from everywhere and then we mix ideas and invent our own patterns. Sewing and creating together is big part of our close friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So langsam wird es kalt hier in M\u00fcnchen, der erste Schnee ist schon gefallen! Noch k\u00e4lter ist es sicher in Helsinki, dem n\u00e4chsten Stop auf der Sewing Around The World Tour. Hier leben Sunna und Kirsi (ich liebe diese Namen!), deren Blog Mekkotehdas – was soviel hei\u00dft wie “Kleiderfabrik” – wir zuf\u00e4llig entdeckt haben. Wir freuen uns sehr, dass auch diese beiden kreativen Bloggerinnen und Buchautorinnen zugesagt haben und…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,142],"tags":[241],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32473,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32460\/revisions\/32473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}