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Free Japanese Sewing Pattern – UneUneGoroGoro

April 30, 2012

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 cutest things!

I was drawn to this site because my little one likes cats. So when I saw the little cat pouch above, I had to make one for her 🙂 The little bear is cute too, I can put in some beads and make it into a paperweight!

First of all, her website link is here http://cyocorune.cocolog-nifty.com/unegoro/ where you can see all the beautiful things she has made. She has also provided a page with links to her free patterns here – http://cyocorune.cocolog-nifty.com/unegoro/cat21754769/index.html . Some of them require you to download a PDF template. Just look out for the file extension .pdf and click on it. (See below)

The others that do not require templates are like simple bags and pouches, which are basically constructed from rectangles, so just click on the blog post and the detailed instructions will be there. I used Google translate on the how-to-make page and it gave me this. Comparing to the original Japanese Instructions :

頭用の布　7×7cm　5枚    (Cloth for head – 7x7cm 5 pieces)
耳用の布　3.5×4～5cm　２枚
ボディ用の布　7×7cm　5枚  (Cloth for body – 7x7cm 5 pieces)
3mm紐　8cm　4本 (3mm cord, 8cm long, 4pcs)
ウッドビーズ　2個（上記紐が通る物）
目鼻用ボタン（刺繍でも可）
フェルト　2.5×1.5cm　１枚

Google translate messed up the body, head and cord translations by trying to translate them into sentences and rearranging the numbers, so sometimes it might be better to use a combination of both, just to decipher the part (i.e. head/ear/body in this case) you are making, but use the dimensions from the Japanese version to avoid confusion.

The rest of the pattern is quite easy, because she has  step by step photographs for some of them.

And scroll down to the bottom of the page, you will find more archived free pattern links.

Happy Sewing!

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Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Nuimonotictac

April 23, 2012

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 link will be useful to those of you with little boys. 🙂

Today’s free pattern comes from a website called Nuimonotictac, Nuimono means sewing, and tic tac I suppose just means tic tac.. lol 🙂

The website is well organized, the links to the instructions are accessible from the thumbnails. There are clothes for babies, boys, girls, mama and even one for papa. There are also some cute accessories and school accessories.

What I like most about this site is how clear the photographs and diagrams are. Even the patterns look like they are fit to be sold and not free downloads! Look at the examples below.

 

Other than sewing, if you access her website from the main page – http://nuimonotictac.mameshibori.net/ you will see links to an introduction to her site where she lists some basic instructions for printing as well as her terms of use of her free patterns.

She also provides information on stenciling on clothes using fabric stamps/paint, as well as some handmade toys like making trains out of old milk cartons.

I hope this will make mummies of little boys very happy 🙂 I for one, love that little rugby shirt! I think I might make one for my girls if I can find some nice jersey material.

Happy Sewing!

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Translations and Help with Patterns

Translation Request – What size to make (for Ira)

April 13, 2012

I received a request via email today from Ira, who asked which size she should make for her 5 year old girl.
Hi Ira! You didn’t mention how tall she is, so I can’t tell you exactly which one to use. But the patterns usually refer to size for kids by their heights.

Under the how to make section, you will see a series of numbers divided by slashes. These are the different sizes (based on height).Subsequently for each set of materials/measurements, just take the corresponding measurement.

 

 

The translation for the above will be

  • materials for sizes (90/100/110/120/130cm)
    表布 main fabric (denim coat) 110cm wide (70/75/80/85/90cm)
    別布 co-ordinating fabric (broadcloth cotton) 110cm wide (55/60/65/70/75cm)
    2.5cm wide elastic band (ゴムテープ） (43/45/48/51/55cm)
    2.2cm wide lace（レース） (110/115/125/125/135cm)
    1 button （ボタン） of 1.5cm diameter （直径）
    4 buttons （ボタン）of 1.2cm diameter （直径）
  • completed garment size
    pants （パンツ）length（丈） 38.5/42/45.5/49/51.1cm

So let’s say if your daughter is 110cm tall, then you will take the 3rd set of measurements for each item. Meaning 80cm of main fabric, 65cm of co-ordinating fabric, 48cm of elastic and 125cm of lace. And the finished size will be 45.5cm. If you wish to adjust the length of the pants you can just extend or shorten from the bottom edge of the pants pattern.

Hope this helps you decide which size to make!

 

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Free Japanese Sewing Pattern – Sasatto Sewing (offline)

April 2, 2012

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 small zakka goods like bags and pouches, or simple skirts/shirts constructed out of rectangles and simple shapes. This is because pattern pieces are usually much larger than A4 size which is what most of us can print at home. I’ve been looking for more free patterns that are for clothes and not just small goods because I think these will be quite interesting to make.

Today’s free pattern comes from a site called Sasatto Sewing. I’ve bookmarked this site some time back but it was quite hard to navigate. I think she has recently reorganized the links and even though it is still not so easy to find all the bits and pieces as there is a lot of text, I think the completed garments are quite elaborate for free patterns, so it’s quite worth checking out! If you are using a browser with an auto translate feature like Chrome, you can try turning it on. It might help search for the correct links, although the text translation is not very accurate 🙂

This is the link to the main page – http://sasatto-sewing.com/  From the main page it is quite easy because the projects are listed by thumbnails so you can just click on the thumbnail to the project you want. Once you get to the project page, you will see lots of links (the links are in green).

Just a few things to take note of. The sizes are quite varied from project to project. Some are for kids only and some include kids and adults sizes. So refer to the word size サイズ and the numbers next to it. Units are in cm! (Conversion from inches – 1 inch = 2.54cm)

The other important text to note – 作り方(how to make) and パターン (pattern). This two links are what will lead you to the diagrams needed to construct the patterns as well as the steps for making the garment.

The other links in green (for this particular skirt) are some explanatory notes about the skirt as well as variations of materials on the skirt which will give it a different effect. But the main links you will need are the two I mentioned previously.

Happy Sewing!

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Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Juki

March 19, 2012

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 the computer. So it was rather productive last week. I even bought two new Japanese sewing books (for myself) and even completed a shirt except that I could not find 8 matching buttons to go with it so now it’s still incomplete. I will be reviewing one of the new books I bought on Wednesday. Hopefully I will be able to get the buttons on by then and take some pics!

Anyway, for todays’ free pattern. It was another discovery while surfing for something else. Sewing Machines to be exact. It’s not the same as sewing books where you can just keep buying and hoarding, for good sewing machines are pretty expensive. I started with a Brother and now I’m using a Janome. Both Japanese brands I think. Have you heard of Juki machines? Well, now you have! And what’s even better, they have free patterns for download!

The patterns are mainly for zakka items and small handmade goods.

What I really like about the instructions are its clear step by step photographs/diagrams. No translation or guessing needed! 🙂

Example of one of the newer patterns. Some of the other patterns are in diagrams, not all of them have such detailed photographs but they are still quite easy to understand.

Visit the patterns page here http://www.juki.co.jp/household_ja/world/project/index.html (updated October 2016)

Happy Sewing!

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