Ottobre Sew Along!

Hello everyone! I have some exciting news! After talking it over with my Sewing Republic  Blog accolite Stacy, I decided to lanch an Ottobre Sew Along . What is Ottobre? It's a Finnish magazine published in English, German, French and more (Finnish too of course) six times a year. They have four kid editions and two women editions. When you think of cool patterns in the USA you might think of Built By Wendy, with Ottobre you get a whole book of patterns, all of them modern, unique and very wearable. Many of us have been hoarding the magazines for years, by this I mean exactly that: acquisition and failure to use! Why? What is the problem? Well... you have to trace the patterns, and here the lazy bone shows up. This Sew Along is for all of us hoarders of Ottobre to get motivated, finally get tracing, maybe even sew a few things for our spring wardrobe and give the store the cold shoulder. Although I wouldn't mind for my shoulders to be a bit warmer right now! darn rain....
If I peaked your interest and you don't own any Ottobre mags, check out their website, you can browse the magazines and download free patterns too. They have recently posted a very nice bag pattern there.

My dear Karin made this fabulous button for us to use:

We have a Flickr group here.

Button code:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1042297@N24/" title="A button! by chickpeastudio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3551/3423545929_cab2e45c07_o.jpg" width="129" height="96" alt="A button!" /></a>

Comments

[Fancy Elastic]

OOh, fun... I've just started a subscription, but not sure when my first magazine arrives... hopefully I'll be in!

[Lisa L.]

You are way too hard on yourself - the pants are adorable!!!!

[Sam D.]

Such a good idea. Maybe it will motivate me! I am gonna go home and start planning it!

[stephanie]

I'm in! I actually have the material for a skirt...

[Pat]

I'm in too... Stephanie and I are doing skirts together.

[Lisa]

I had never heard of Ottobre until you mentioned it. I do like the pea pod purse pattern they have for free on their website. Hmmm, do I have time to add another project??? This is something to seriously contemplate!

[Maria]

This is great! I've made a few things for my son from Ottobre, and would like to sew something for myself, too. Hmm, have to go browsing...

[Maria Kirk]

I love Ottobre! From the 2009 Spring issue, I sewed out the outfit on page 61 for my daughter. It was well worth it! Looking forward to my next issue.

[Viv]

Yay! I'm in, button up on my blog. I'll post about it this afternoon. I am halfway through sewing up a garment for the wee boy from an Ottobre pattern now.

[Clo]

This is a great idea to get me motivated, being a newbie to Otto and I need more confidence. Great Idea.

[mistyeiz]

yay!!! cant wait, cant wait!! sewing newbie n ottobre convert here....HI!! :)

[Natalie]

Fantastic idea! I too have been hoarding my ottos for the last 2 years, but I did finally use them for a kids clothing swap I was in last month. Now I'm addicted and have the confidence to dive in and start trying all those lovely items that I've been drooling over.

[corrie]

oh oh oh perfect! I have a huge stash of ottobre's in my back room and this is just what I need...in fact the babies need some sleeping bags so its perfect!

ok I'm in!

Corrie;)

[Jodie]

I just received my first issue (along with my freebie) so this couldn't of come at a better time... I'm in, will pop the button up asap..

Jodie :)