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All free patterns including the Japanese pattern links as well as my own downloads

Guest Post by Rin of Sew in Love

Today’s blog post is a guest post by Rin Gomura of Sew in Love. Rin is my very first guest blogger! I can’t remember how long ago it was when I started following her on twitter, and subsequently discovering her lovely blog, but I…

May 16, 2013

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – C’hufs handmade web magazine

I recently discovered C’hufs – a free web magazine for handmade goods! It’s full of eye candy and inspiration, lovely pictures, creative ideas, and best of all, free patterns! Cover of the latest edition. Visit the main site at http://chufs.cc/index.html and click on the banner…

May 3, 2013

Free pattern and tutorial – Skirt with piped pockets.

This months free tutorial is partly inspired by the Skirts special in Cucito Spring 2013, my kids, and the Great British Sewing Bee! Yup! you heard me right. I heard so much about it but had given up hope of watching it since it…

April 30, 2013

nani IRO pocho smock – completed

So I finally decided to use this fabric from the 2012 collection – Peaceful cooing Madobe It was such a big thing to me because this is the first time I’ve actually cut into a piece of nani IRO fabric! So I have to blog…

March 22, 2013

Free Pattern, Tutorial and Sewing Video – A simple dress

I said this would be up on Monday, and now it’s Tuesday, almost Wednesday. What happened, was that I had to do a little housekeeping on my mac as I was running out of space on my startup disk, and to my horror, all…

February 27, 2013

February is Girls’ Dresses Month

For the last two weeks, I have been busy sewing up dresses for both myself and the girls, because the Lunar New Year is just around the corner! The yearly tradition is that everyone should be decked from top to bottom in new clothes…

February 4, 2013

New Year, New Schedule

This is my first post of 2013. I’m sorry it has taken so long. This year we took our holidays one week later than usual. When we got back, there was only 1 week to finish preparing everything for the new school year, not…

January 7, 2013

Free patterns, how-to-make and my first video tutorial

Finally as promised, the fleece jacket with free patterns, step by step photos and a sewing video! Unlike the previous few sew-alongs, I didn’t announce this before hand, because I just wanted to post it here for anyone and everyone to read and sew…

December 10, 2012