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Sewing Tutorials

For all sewing tutorials, including sew alongs (from books) as well as my free patterns

Free Qipao / Cheongsam / Ladies Chinese Dress Pattern

Ever since my first post on making the Girls’ version of the Chinese Qipao in January 2014, I have received lots of feedback and seen lots of pictures on social media of the dress. I have been thinking about making the same pattern for adults for…

November 9, 2016

Chinese New Year Sewing 2016

I have not been blogging for the past few weeks, but I have a number of reasons to be very very busy. Chinese New Year is in a week’s time and I’ve been busy spring cleaning and sewing. It is customary for everyone to…

January 31, 2016

Girls Qi Pao / Chinese Dress sew-along Pattern variation

I have been seeing lots of YOUR creations on my Facebook page and I can tell you it’s been wonderful seeing them.  Now it’s my turn to show you mine. First of all, I said I was going to sew on Chinese brocade, and I did.…

January 31, 2014

Girls Qi Pao (Chinese Dress) Sew Along Day 3

Today we are going to tackle the side zipper opening of the dress. This took me a few experiments to figure it out. I am not even sure if this is the correct way to do it but it works! 🙂 So here goes….…

January 16, 2014

Girls Qi Pao (Chinese Dress) Sew Along Day 2

Now, let’s get started! This is what we are going to be doing today. The sewing was mainly documented in video form and I did not have enough time to take screenshots so most of the sewing process will be in the form of a…

January 16, 2014