Book Review – Sisters’ Clothes for Recital

I was asked by my cousin to sew 4  flower girls dresses for her wedding (2 are for my girls ;P). Well, the date was actually set early in the year, and she even passed me the fabric a few months ago, but I…

November 2, 2012

Japanese Fabrics – Yuwa Floral Fabrics

Here is the post on Yuwa floral fabrics as promised! YUWA【有輪商店】is a fabric manufacturer from Japan and I love their floral fabrics especially the linen range. Everytime I get the chance to go fabric shopping in Japan, I will spend a lot of time…

October 31, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Patternshop Snowwing

Another busy week, and it’s only Monday! This week is exams week and so there is very little time for surfing and posting in the day. But finally the girls are off to bed and even though all I want to do is to…

October 29, 2012

Japanese Sewing Magazine Review – Female Autumn 2012

It’s never a good idea to walk into a bookshop when feeling depressed.  I wasn’t intending to buy this because I was supposedly on a book ban and anyway I flipped through it once before and thought there was nothing much I wanted to…

October 26, 2012

Japanese Fabric – Cotorienne

I was actually in the middle of writing a post on a YUWA floral fabric that I made my wallet out of, when I got distracted (while browsing the online shops) by another fabric also made by YUWA. Moon Rabbits…

October 24, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Pattern – Sew-ing.com

Sorry for the late post. Today’s free pattern is from るんるんソーイング (Run Run sewing) http://sew-ing.com and it contains free patterns for babies, kids, adults, accessories, bags and even zakka! The homepage contains the list of projects and even though there are very few pictures on…

October 23, 2012

Book Review – Simple Chic

Here’s a book title that requires no translation. Simple Chic. It’s not a very new book, but I’ve been buying mostly books for girls, so it’s only lately that I started sewing for myself and started buying more adult pattern books. Today was one…

October 19, 2012

Japanese Fabric – Muddy Works by Tomotake

Today’s fabric post is not about a fabric that I have, but rather, somthing that caught my eye recently and I wish I can get hold of it! The fabric line is called Muddy Works and it’s from the brand Tomotake. Behind Tomotake is…

October 17, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Pattern – Atelierhukutsukuro

Today’s free pattern link may prove to be immensely useful to some, but not of much use to others. Why do I say that? Well, I have been looking for free patterns on Men’s shirts but I’ve never come across one that is so…

October 15, 2012

Book Review – Kids Clothes Sewing Lesson Book

I received this book together with the More! Handmade Wallets a couple of weeks ago, and I could not wait to share! This is a very new book also published by Nihon Vogue. I check their site out too often and I keep seeing…

October 12, 2012