Today’s book is really fun. Have you heard of Rilakkuma? It’s a character from San-x, also known as Relax Bear. It’s one of my favourite characters. I have many Rilakkuma goods. Notepads, a tote bag, even have a 3D Rilakkuma iphone case! 🙂 For…
I come across many comments while surfing for Japanese Sewing Books, that Japanese patterns are very pretty, the photos in the books are gorgeous, but the results always look shapeless and sometimes pajama like? Not true. First of all, there are books with properly…
Today’s free patterns come from one of my favourite Japanese fabric brands. Lecien Corporation is a manufacturer of fabrics, handicrafts as well as ladies clothes and even lingerie. I’m sure most of us who sew will recognize their brand as a manufacturer, given that they produce…
First of all, I’m not sure if Pochee is a book or a magazine. If you remember my other Pochee review over here, I used to think that it was a magazine, like Cotton Friend/Cotton Time, but the staff at Kinouniya told me it’s…
I didn’t post last week as it was school holidays. Holidays for the kids, but extra busy time for Mum 🙂 Strangely though, I did have more time to sew. Somehow the kids are happier seeing my sewing (stuff for them) then working on…
Ok I’m really guessing the title here. The Japanese title is おしゃれが好きな女の子の服 which literally means Fashionable – like – girls’ clothes. Which doesn’t make sense right? So Google translate tells me it’s Girls like fashionable clothes. Which makes more sense but I prefer Fashionable clothes…
Good Monday morning! Time to chase away those morning blues by indulging in some new free patterns I’ve discovered 🙂 Note that I did not specify sewing patterns. That’s because, the site I am recommending today has lots more to offer than just sewing…
Today’s book review is on making summer clothes for girls. Easy, quick, 1 day sewing. I picked up this book just based on the cover photo. I didn’t even look through it. By the way, in case you are wondering, the Kinokuniya here likes…
How many bags does a girl need? How many bags does a girl want? How many bags have I made? Not enough 😉 Today’s free pattern link is from Bee Factory. There are lots of free patterns out there for little items like bags…
It’s Wednesday and time for another book review 🙂 Today’s book is called Kurai Muki no Kodomofuku : Simple+one. (クライ・ムキの子供服 Simple+one) The author is 倉井美由紀 but she is known as クライ・ムキ Kurai Muki. She has written lots of books on sewing! I first came across this…