I was looking for a hat pattern to sew for my kids, and found this very useful site with step by step photographs for instructions 🙂 The site is called Tank Engine and the links to the free patterns are here. When you click…
What a cute name! Today’s blog is called UneUne GoroGoro うねうねごろごろ ( 日々をうねうね 日々をごろごろ) Google translate tells me it means Winding Purring (Winding everyday, Purring everyday). I don’t understand winding is but I am guessing this lady likes cats? 🙂 It doesn’t matter because she makes the…
I’ve seen a couple of requests for boy patterns. Sorry to say that because I have two girls, the only boy patterns I have are from books that have a combination of patterns for kids. I don’t have any books specially for boys! But…
Today’s free pattern find was contributed by Alice Heil from Sommet Outta Nuthin… Thanks Alice! 🙂 The patterns are from Otsukaya.co.jp which is a fabric store with branches in Nagoya, Gifu and Osaka. Just like the fabric store I went to in Otaru, they provided free…
Update 24 March : It seems that the following website has been taken offline. I tried searching in Japanese but they all turn up the old domain name which is no longer available. Most of the free patterns you can find online are for…
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…
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…
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…
Studio Clip is a company selling zakka and clothings. They have both an online store as well as physical stores in Japan. Today I discovered one of their blogs – which is a huge library of “how to make” patterns for zakka goods! To…
Today’s link is a really amazing find. I stumbled upon this website from a list of links on a Japanese site, so it was really a by-chance thing and not directly from any search engine. This website is by the company Fujix Ltd which…