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Free Sewing Pattern, Tutorial and Video – Double zip pouch

Along with the theme of Zakka month, I decided to tackle something that has been baffling me for a while. How to make a double zip pouch with two compartments. Well actually I wanted to make one with 3 zips but I decided to…

May 27, 2013

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 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

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 Japanese Sewing Pattern – Tamanegi Kobo

Today’s free patterns are from a site that sells PDF patterns, called Tamanegi-Kobo. They have patterns for both adults and kids, and there are even some PDF patterns in English! They sell to international customers but they do not ship the paper patterns internationally.…

October 1, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Macaroon Pouch

Have you seen the uber cute macaroon pouches? They are cute and tiny  and you can customize them using embroidery, fabrics, even crochet. All you need are some scrap fabrics, a zip and some large covered buttons. Here are some free (with great photo…

September 17, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Pattern – ham*a

Back to school! I can’t decide if I like school holidays. I enjoy the sleeping in, but by mid week I’m out of ideas to entertain the kids. It didn’t help that the weather was really bad for outdoor activities last week. Anyway, I…

September 10, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Pattern – Wildberry Shop

Did you have a good weekend? I did! My overlocker/serger arrived and I spent the weekend getting to know my new toy better. No it’s not a babylock so no fancy jet air threading system for me, so I spent quite a bit of…

July 30, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – indy*uneko

I was searching for a handphone case pattern. I haven’t found one that I like yet, but I stumbled upon this site that made me want to make other things instead. 😛 The website is called indy*uneko http://uneko.at.webry.info/  and it is a blog by a…

July 9, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Sel et Sucre

Have you heard of a bag-in-bag? Do you have a bag-in-bag? Well, a bag-in-bag is basically a smaller bag that has lots of pockets and compartments that allows you to sort everything out and be super organized! It’s great for keeping all the important…

June 18, 2012