Thursday, June 30, 2011

a denim suit

I hope you all are doing great!
As for me, I've been slowed down. I maybe need to tell you that I always kinda enter the period of hibernation at the onset of the summer. I'm not good at dealing with the hotness. I hope I can survive this summer too...

By the way, that's the one of the biggest reasons why I miss England so much. I love the mild and lovely summer there. I'd be sobbing with happiness if I were in the Kew Gardens at this moment.

However I'm here in Japan, in this hotness.

I recently sewed a pair of pants in a flowing light linen/rayon denim. They look like and actually are similar to Thai pants. I hope you can see that they have a narrow wrap area in front. The closure is done by a pair of buttons, and it has no waist band. Very wide and relaxed pants. Yes, they really are comfortable to be in, even in this heat, because of the flowing fabric and those wide legs. I'm happy with my new summer pants!
Then I experimented, I mean, I sewed a sleeveless top in the same denim as you see.
Oh la la, A BLUE DENIM SUIT?

Despite the fact that I started it to make fun of myself and also to entertain you in a funny way, I ended up with thinking that they were lovely with each other in some way.

Yes, I failed but I feel good, after all.
I hope you like it too!


Love,
yoshimi



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Thai style pants in denim:
pants Emerald (PDF pattern) from Tamanegi-kobo

sleeveless top in denim:
blouse 5762 (PDF pattern) from anneedeux*

fabric: linen50/rayon50, denim, indigo x light gray, flowing, light, bouncy, smooth
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Update

Hello!
It's been a while since the last post.
No, I have not stopped sewing.

It's just that, I have made some clothes but I was a bit too shy to show them to you until now. I guess I was intimidated in some way.
Maybe because I often use those old patterns which you don't have accesses for any more. Or maybe because I always use the patterns which have only Japanese instructions. Or maybe because I show you the results but never tell you how I made them. I thought as if I needed more usefulness in my posts.

Well... sounds very silly though.
So I waited for something useful that I could provide in my blog posts for some time, but nothing arrived in the end (oops). I concluded and consoled myself with thinking that's how the most weblogs are primarily and I should be relaxed about it anyway.

I hope some of you can find a bit of inspiration for your sewing plan from my recent sewing projects here. Happy sewing!!

Jodhpurs-y Evan pants
Aren't they funny, I really love them!
crick to enlarge smaller photographs
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Evan pants
pattern:
  Evan from TAMANEGI-KOBO (PDF pattern)
size38(JP9). Significantly narrowed only below thigh, panels for upper half and lower half of the pants were cut independently, lined upper half with cupro, lengthened by 10cm.

fabric: Stretch cotton, PU blend, stiff, thick, stretches not very well, parachute-y and sporty texture, off-white.
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V neck t-shirt
I love this print!
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Flowery t-shirt
pattern:
  ladies' t-shirt from pumila (paper pattern)
size38(JP9). Sleeves lengthened. Shoulder adjusted(narrowed by 1cm at each side).

fabric: Cotton jersey, light, t-shirt weight, not very well stretching, flowery pattern
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Summery Hatoto bag
Another Hatoto bag
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Summery Hatoto bag
self drafted pattern:
  Hatoto bag (PDF pattern)

Cotton blend double layered fabric with creases, ecru white, decorated with white and crystal buttons. Fully lined.
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Lacy Pleple blouse
I used a pullover-dress pattern to make the blouse.

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Lacy Pleple blouse
pattern:
  Pleple dress from anneecotton* (paper pattern)
size40. Shortened, an elastic band inserted at hem, V-shaped neckline

fabric: Cotton lace, light, yellow-white
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Love,
yoshimi