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Hello! I've been in the reading phase of internet sewing. I mean, I've been busy at reading your blogs but having no time to write. You around the world have so many interesting things to tell! I'm trying to avoid staying forever in front of my computer though, it takes so much time for even just checking all my big RSS list each day. Yes, it's lovely to know that there are many like-minded

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Hello, dear my readers! jersey cardigan jacket You might already know that I have a teen-age daughter. She is a kind of girl who would admit PJs sewn by her mother are the best in the world, but that's all of what she would say. She is not interested in my sewing in any ways. Some days ago, I casually spoke to her "See, now another one is done, Darling", showing a dress form which was wearing

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I'm practicing photography lately, a wee bit, by myself, and this is me in yesterday's morning. It was a calm and beautiful Saturday morning. We decided to take a walk to our favorite Italian restaurant for lunch. As there was a plenty of sunlight, I was so happy to annoy my company with stopping at every flower on the way for releasing my shutter to fix the beauty in my camera. The restaurant

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I made a cardigan with a nostalgic flowery print. Don't worry, I agree with you, that the print looks "out of days" to me too! And guess what, I'm very happy in this cardigan, and actually you might see my feeling in the pictures. I have to say that I really love this outfit on me. I think the colors suit me well. *** Funny idea though, I cunningly feel that it's more effective to put on

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Hello, hope you're very well! As for me, I hate these tweed pants... because they really don't show their pretty texture, figure, lightness, and loveliness in my pictures. And what is more, I imagine that you can't even find the pants in the pictures because they are melting in my usual background. Mmm! Yes, I admit I am too upset, I shouldn't have forgotten to mention that I really love my new

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I wanted this very long. I wanted that very red. And I wanted both very simple. The skirt in sky blue is made of silk twill. Shimmering. Long. Flow-y. The red pullover is made of mohair knit. Red(i said it twice). Soft. Short. Hairy. They're too simple to describe, sewing-wise, as you can see everything at a glance. The only truth that you don't get from the pictures is that I laundered the

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Joker is the name of the pattern, for these pants. I've been very keen on green pants since this summer. I envied every one of green pairs I encountered in the magazines and the fashion web sites, but I was too inefficient to do anything other than looking at. I only stared at them because I believed that no green pants would suit me in this world. There was absolutely some psychotic silliness

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Hello! I've got this beautiful silk with flowery embroidery recently. I knew it would look nice and gorgeous if I made it into a dress, but you know what, I just couldn't. I made a tunic with it so that I could have more chances to enjoy my sewing result. Beautifully embroidered white silk dresses don't do anything in my life... unfortunately. I'm really happy while I'm sewing, but I'm even

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Hello there! I've sewn some garments for my sister, as it's getting cooler and we're feeling like new clothes. The other day and for the first time, my little sister asked me if I could sew just one pair of pants that was similar to the pair I made last autumn for her. And of course, I was pretty happy to be asked like that! It sounded as if she loved the last pair and chose asking me to make

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Although it is still hot here and the temperature is rising up above 30˚C/86˚F in daytime, autumn is already smelling in the air. I sewed a skirt for early autumn in the color of marigold. Before starting this project, I wished my new skirt to be a small one with a slimmer silhouette in orange-yellow-brown-ish color, but didn't want a pencil skirt. I also wished to try one of the patterns from

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First of all, I'd love to tell that I appreciate every single comment you made on the last post very much. I felt your kind hearts and it was overwhelming. Thank you for saying me that I'm not boring, it was really really kind. I was feeling like a child who had a fall down on the ground, looked at the mother, and heard her saying "it's OK, darling" to making sure it's OK. The words from those

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Another easy tiered skirt and a simple pullover (with peeping shoulders!) I had a great fun with thinking how they would go with each other while I was sewing them. I think they turned out pretty well as I hoped. * Please be warned, I think I'm going to mumble funnily today. In recent years, I'm quite happy with what I sew. To me they seem just right on me, although I know that they are not too

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Hope you all are doing well! I sewed three summer dresses lately. Two of them are for me, and one is for my new torso. Yes, one of my friends kindly asked if I'd like to use the one which she no longer used, and I am finally equipped with a dress form! I'm yet to understand what will be changing by living with the device, but it certainly makes me feel committed. Hi everyone, I'm scared. What if

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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

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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

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*** Since I bought my Bernina, I've been sewing Pa'u skirts for my mother. She's been attending Hula dance class with her friends once in every two weeks for some time, and she likes to wear Pa'u skirts there. I've been enjoying making her birthday presents, one by one, once a year, to give her a new dancing skirt. And also I often enjoyed trying them on *for just checking* before sending them

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Coral is the name of this blouse. Correctly, it's the name of the pattern for this blouse. Originally, Coral has got a set of pretty cool asymmetric sleeves. Because I love being rather boring as you probably know, I made my version have one symmetric set of left sleeves on both side, like most blouses in the world have. I think the result turned out a cool and beautiful top in spite of my big

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Hello! I've got a small piece of indigo linen gauze, and I couldn't think anything but making it into a cardigan blouse. I imagined it would make a very nice casual and feminine light jacket-like cardigan blouse (sorry for my wobbly English!). And I think it did. The most recommended fabric for the pattern I used was light jersey, but my fabric was a thin and coarse linen gauze. It resulted a

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Yes, I'm pretending a punk. 5 days ago, I bought this red denim in Tokyo. As I had been wanting a bold and bright red pair of slim jeans, (I'm not sure if I was sober when the idea hit my brain though,) I was looking for some nice red-red denim in the Nippori fabric district. Despite my frantic search of it, I couldn't find any of red denim other than this dark punk glittery smelly fabric.

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Long cardigan pattern: Amy S. #6028 from BurdaStyle (PDF) size 34(1-2 smaller size than my measurement size), lengthened, added a front opening and plackets, one hidden hook & eye for closure fabric: cotton lace jersey, white beige, light, very stretchy because of the lacy texture I stole an idea of making cardigan from Amy pullover pattern from my dear friend Kapo. I was almost successful

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Day 31. Me-made white shirt, pattern TAO from Tamanegi-kobo Me-made leggings/pants, pattern Blackspinel from Tamanegi-kobo Regrettably I have a huge gap of days in my MMM project album. But I know that I'm quite a self-stitcher and I can prove it next time. (*^_^*) ===== White shirt pattern: TAO from TAMANEGI-KOBO (PDF) size 9, front short placket, stand collar, lengthened by 10cm, bias grain

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Thank you very much for your help, and for your response to the last blog post. Please check what I wrote in it if you haven't read it, as there are still some days before the ruffle is closed. I am greatly thankful, not only for your donation, but also for all your kind attitude. It is helping us in every sort of ways to recover, I hope you understand what I mean. To know that we have your

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*This article is translated by my friend, Hiro, who always supports me. I hope my message will reach your heart million times more clear than usual. Dear my friends, Thank you very much all your kind comments and encouragement. I apologize that I was not able to reply each of your comments. After the quake, Japan is facing a lot of difficulties. In order for people to maintain a peaceful

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Thank you for those who sent me a message and comment after the earthquake in Japan. I just want to let you know I'm OK and safely staying with my family at home. I appreciate your concern very much. Take care. yoshimi

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Hi everyone! I'm very silently starting my Me-Made-March 2011 project. I'm not going to put my photographs for the project here, but you may visit Me-Made-March '11 Flickr group if you would like to have a look at the participants' achievements including mine. I sewed a skirt. It's a mermaid skirt with 6 panels. Yes, we call this type of skirts "mermaid skirts" in Japan, but I'm not sure how

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Thank you joujouka. Recently I received an e-mail from a lady whose name is joujouka. I have kind of known her because she is a delightful and skillful knitter and a lovely seamstress, so it was not difficult for me to find her at BurdaStyle and at Ravelry before introducing ourselves to each other properly. She wrote me that she made a PDF file pattern for my bag, which I've posted here, for

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It's getting warmer and warmer day by day, but spring seems staying far away from us. I wanted a new spring coat to cheer me up, and sewed two copies in a row. I mean, I sewed two coats from one pattern, and the first one turned out to be a failure and second one successfully became my spring coat. The first I sensed that it was going to be very unsuccessful from the beginning. It sounds very

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Hello everybody! * 'I, yoshimi of yoshimi the flying squirrel, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-March '11. I endeavour to wear at least one self-stitched garment each day for the duration of March 2011' Yes I'll have a go. To confess, it seems difficult for me to take a picture of my outfit everyday, but I've decided to do my best. Visit Zoe's blog if you aren't familiar with her marvelous

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Thank you very much for your responses, I've had some comments and messages about the pattern for my ultrasuede bucket bag. I have no PDF pattern which is ready to cut, but here I post drawings(one in inch and the other in cm) today, for your reference. They show the raw dimensions of my bag, so please note that YOU'LL NEED TO ADD SEAM ALLOWANCES that your fabric demands. click to enlarge (inch

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I got a new bag. It's a simple bucket type bag made in orange synthetic leather, which was probably Ultrasuede. I bought this synthetic fabric a week ago when I visited Nippori to accompany Carolyn and Novita for a fabric shopping. It was a very lovely day and we had a great fun with our hunting out. Because Carolyn brought her beautiful daughter with her, and my friend Miho joined us after

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Hello! Why do I look this grumpy in the photo? Because the place wasn't bright enough for the photographs and I needed more sunshine. And because I also knew I was carrying numberless creases on my tummy. But in my heart, I had a grin because I like my latest result secretly. One day I was sitting at home and looking at ELLE online Japan, and saw a off-duty runway model wearing a black

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*** I'm having a giveaway for celebrating this blog's 2nd anniversary. Please visit the post if you would like to enter the raffle. It will be closed on 14/January/2011. *** I was wishing to have a warm pullover for fighting with the shivering winter, and I found a pretty fabric. The problem was that, I needed to choose its color. The shop had four colors (white, lavender, pink and mustard) in

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Hello! I sewed two pieces of garments lately. Probably these are to be the last two sewing projects in this year. They are nothing special but they seem quite "me", to my eyes. (1) I used a pullover pattern for the cardigan. As I mentioned in this post, it's quite easy to make fitted cardigans from a pullover/jersey top pattern. I have one favorite pattern that fits me, and have been

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I started to sew a dress called Quitterie because I liked the skirt of it very much, but eventually I had to find that I chose the wrong fabric for the bodice part. The impression of the ongoing dress looked too juvenile and I started to feel insecure. I used a yellow-ish ecru jersey for the bodice, and the dress was getting too "dolly" which I wouldn't be happy with. Then, of course, I chopped

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I've been looking for the knitting patterns for turban-type slouchy cap for some time. Yep, you can see that I found one which I'm really happy with. I love it, my whole family love it too (they seem that they're quite amused to see me in it at home, yeah, I wear it at home, because it's fun to act peculiarly and see everybody giggling at me). Believe me, this is so cute. ===== pattern :

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A shrug type jacket called Sarah, pattern from BurdaStyle. On the other day, my lovely friend Kapo bought this fabric on her holiday trip. She found it at the local fabric store and took it home with her, just because it was "SO YOSHIMI". Yes, she bought it for me. Sounds weird but I totally know how it can happen to us... Our consensus is that fabrics rule how we look (in our self-made garments

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Ta-da! I had a go on another vogue dress. To be completely honest with you, I feel like dressing very casual recently... So, I don't know how much wear I'd get from the dress (guilty!), even though I think the dress itself turned quite pretty. However, I have a certain occasion to dress neatly and properly (than usual) in December. I may attend the meeting in this dress, so that it can bring the

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These two of jersey tops are my latest creations. They were no big sewing, and they don't look too sassy either, but I'm so happy and excited to bring them into my wardrobe. I love those colors and they really brighten up my days!   Hope you are doing great! Talk to you later, yoshimi ===== Blue high neck top pattern: Fujiko top from TAMANEGI-KOBO (PDF) fabric: Tencel65/cotton35 rib jersey,

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Hello everybody, I guess I'm on stream of pants-making!  I made another pair of jeans in a grey stretch denim, mimicking the famous "Skinny cargo pants". Though I've never liked (sorry...if the words are too strong) the traditional and wide cargo pants on me, I was very curious to see if I liked them when they were not so authentic. I imagined that those stretch skinny pairs could look better

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I made an interesting jacket on its pattern-release day. For making it, I used a synthetic fluffy white fabric, which was quite resembles to faux-fur ("fake faux-fur"??). Although the pattern recommended thinner and softer fabrics for better drapes in the front neckline, because I wanted to make the jacket look more cloak-y and very warm, I used a thick and hairy fabric which was probably

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We have fall everywhere. I don't remember if I've mentioned my this year's resolution here. It's that I allow myself to sew as much as I would love to, unlimitedly. Sounds funny? Yes, I think so too. Before telling my this year's resolution, I think I should have explained that my new-year resolutions were always "I sew as less as possible." I start sewing my clothes some 6 years ago and I

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Hello! I made a jersey top with a button closure (opening?) in the back. I wanted the rear neckline of the top V-shaped, so I used the pattern Balloon from TAMANEGI-KOBO and added an opening like we normally do for cardigans at the front center. It seems that the rear view made the top interesting. I also omitted the cuffs, to make this garment "funnier", and I love the result. I also made a

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First of all, I'd love to thank you everybody, for wishing our survival and for kicking out Japanese late departing summer. It's gone, it's gone now, phew. As I feel like longer and slightly fuller skirts for the coming seasons this year, I sewed this tweed skirt to fill in my list for wardrobe. It is a tuck skirt in a cotton/acrylic/polyester fancy tweed with glittering silver and gold threads

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I sewed a shirt for my sister, using a Liberty fabric called Philippa ( I call it 'Bicycles' though). Unlike me, she is such a shirt wearer. I hope she will like it and get much use of it. By the way, because she is so much petit-ter than the average and I know it is difficult to get pretty shirts that fit her rightly at stores, I occasionally sew her blouses or shirts in her personal size when

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Hi! I'm sewing for autumn, although it's still sweating hot everywhere. Our Summer 2010 hasn't been over yet at all, but I am pretending that it's getting cooler day by day. Actually, we are having the hottest and longest summer in the last hundred years here in Japan, and it's kinda surprising (maybe I should say "it's funny" instead) that I am able to feel like autumn sewing, in this heat.

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They were packed and sent yesterday. It took me quite a few nights to knit. My knitting is very slow, and that my stitches are so irregular. There is no wonder why they became looking funny. Whatever. They are made from much love. Probably that's all I was going to say. I made those three gangs for my friend who's been sharing wonderful experiences with her very young son. I hope they like

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Hello! I sewed a top in a white beige linen jersey for the coming season using Vogue 8581. I have been thinking of making some pullovers in such style for my sister for some time, and it was a muslin kind of sewing to check the possibility of the pattern. I used a small piece of very soft and slightly slack-ish linen jersey for this test. In the process, I needed to reduce the amount of

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Though I already had enough dresses for summer, I sewed another one. It was my wish that I sew a little white summery dress for myself for this summer. I had no particular idea or wish for the style of it, but I wanted it very plain and very comfortable. I have been saving an enormous number of images of white dresses from everywhere on my desktop screen to make myself ready for the project

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You might know that I sewed a vogue 2900 dress the other day. I found it very charming, especially on a human, and the dress inspired me a lot in sewing-wise. Actually, it has brought me two pieces of new garments that I'd post here today and soon. the fabric The fabric I used for the dress was an African wax printed plain woven pure cotton fabric. For dresses, I generally prefer thin, soft

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I made Novita's Reversible Bag, again. This time I recycled the fabric for the bag, using cotton lace that was once sewn to make a tunic in May. I was hoping to sew a casual tunic using this lace, but I just found the fact that I was generally not so keen on this kind of garments after having my first tunic. I looked odd. It was just not right, but I didn't know how to describe other than that.

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A dress that was previously mentioned about the pattern. I sewed the Vogue dress, 2900 in a very stiff fabric. I fell in love with this print instantly when I saw it for the first time on the dark corner of a small shop which was filled with many mysterious and miscellaneous goods and clutters from all over the world. I didn't know what to do with this African wax printed fabric, but I had to

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I've made a jersey dress and a cardigan in a short time. You can imagine how much I am bored and longing for my Bernina by this. (To confess that, I start loving the loaned sewing machine too, maybe because I am taking care of it so much, so often.) I sewed an easy jersey dress from a tank top pattern. The pattern for this dress was actually my favorite tank top pattern. I extended the length

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My Bernina virtuosa153 has been away for nearly a week, because it was something wrong with electrical connection at the plug socket (of the machine). At first I thought there was a disconnection in the cable and it would be OK if I bought a new cable, but it was not the case. I didn't expect that I was going to leave my machine in the shop for fixing right then, at all, but I had no choice.

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Hello! I have some bits and pieces of sewing that I'd like to record, so I'm going to show you some photographs of my recent miscellaneous regardless of your interest! hahaha (1) Thai pants yoshimi's interpretation *click the photographs to enlarge I've made four pairs of those pants in different fabrics as my gifts for four of my friends. I already owned a pair of store-bought short Thai

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This is a response to the enquiries from Rebecca and Shams in the last post. -How the supporting tape look? This is what I called "the supporting tape". It is called "woolly spin tape" in Japan. It's a elastic soft tape that is actually braided bundle of "woolly" fine elastic threads, I guess. I overlocked the edge of the neckline, inserting the tape under the stitches on the wrong side of

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Hello! I decided to sew cardigans for myself. You might remember that I can't live without them. Though I used to avoid sewing jerseys, I've been happily playing with my serger for some time and now I feel that finally it's the time for my essential, Cardigans. I'd love to own my handmade half- or shorter-sleeved cardigans in different colors. I also hope them simple, clean-cut, compact, and

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I once used a pattern for tank top with rows of ruffles, with a blue light woven rayon, probably last summer. The result was no good on me. It was OK because the garment was made for my acquaintance but not mine. Technically, the tank top and those ruffles were pretty itself, and same as on the real owner. They weren't OK on me (I was allowed to put it on as I had to check my sewing). They

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Brigitte is the name of my favorite pattern for dress. I think I've mentioned it before. And, I made a Brigitte dress again! I like sewing my garments from my favorite patterns. Of course it sounds nothing but reasonable, because there wouldn't be anybody who loves using the patterns that she/he hates! However, what I'd love to bring here is that I am very comfortable with using particular

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I have each photo in my Flickr album, with brief description for me-made garment. My outfit recording May, which was inspired by Zoe 's Me-Made-May project, is over. Though I can say that I tried very hard for a satisfying achievement, here I have some blank spaces in the picture, which means that I failed in recording my outfit due to an overflowing work and my ill time-managing. I had a

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Day28! A new dress has been done. I sewed this very casual pretty dress, in polyester georgette and contrasting cotton/silk blend, using a pattern called "Leia" from TAMANEGI-KOBO. It was an easy sewing, except the front yoke. The seam above chest is winding as you can see in the technical drawing below, and it needed a bit of help with glues and hemming tapes to get it done neatly. Basically,

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Hello! With some encouraging comments, I decided to explore my borders to the stripy world. I mean, after posting this T shirt I received some comments that I should not be hesitating but could be happier with wearing more of bolder/brighter stripes. I took their words very reasonable, and I've been feeling to try ever since. Recently, I happened to get (this is a funny expression though, we all

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Zoe is organizing the fabulous Me-Made-May project, in which you pledge to construct your outfits with your Me-Made garments all through the month, May. I witnessed her own successful Me-Made-March project on her blog, and then was excited to read that she was going to organize the similar project in May as well, asking anybody to join with her. I thought it was very nice idea for every sewist

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I made another bag (photo below) today and applied an white rose on it. It was sunny and I felt great when I started, but the weather was getting darker and actually stormy outside at the end of my photo session of a petty tutorial. Sigh. Please allow me to use those pics that were taken on a dark afternoon. I made an album for step by step tutorial for the fabric roses, if I could call it so.

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I used a silver printed (silver color coated) linen, as a main body of the bag. Because the silver print was certainly heat sensitive, I couldn't use my irons at all but had to use my fingers and nails to make all seams open this time. It was so funny to see myself seriously trying seams flat and open with my own organs and body temperature. I was funnily believing that I could make it look fine

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I made my second balloon skirt. I really love the first one, but my size has changed since and it doesn't sit well on my waist any more. I still keep it because I love it too much, but I decided to make another and here we see a brand new spring balloon skirt. The color of this silk chiffon is very difficult to describe. The base color is pale opaque gray, somewhat pink. It is also very sheer,

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Ta-da! Another outfit for exercise. I sewed Lydia again, making it a short sleeved. I put a flowery contrasting fabric on the front body, and as you can see I sewed a pair of culottes in the same print jersey too. The pattern I used for these culottes was JJ's Knit Culottes from BurdaStyle, I cut the pants short as well as made them slightly flared to give a skirt-y look. Though it was the

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 Hello everyone! I really love staying in front of my sewing machine, but recently I have also realized that I need some exercise in regular basis and I'd be better to give up some of my sewing time for exercising a bit. Hopefully I'll be healthier and slightly toned after some time. Actually, just thinking positive about it is already working very well on me, I feel myself very active and

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Yes, you're totally right, it is funny. Of course this skirt should have been posted on April Fool day! I bought this feathery synthetic apparel fabric in January, thinking I could make a warm cropped jacket for the late winter. However, soon after it reached me I found the fabric that I purchased via internet seemed definitely not right for the colder weather. It didn't feel warm at all,

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This is another experimental project, and I love the result! I've been always intimidated by plaids and stripes ever since I found that neat plaids and narrow constant stripes in colors of deep contrast, which were very popular and lovely on many people, were quite difficult because they were too crisp and too cute on me. I've looked for horizontal-striped things with irregular pitch in vague

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Thank you for your great feedback on my sheer Kylie! I've had some enquiries here as well as via e-mails, it kinda surprised me and also made me happy to know that some of you'd love to try yours in similar fabrics. I took some photographs to upload here for those who are interested in its construction (I mean seams and executions), they are.. errrr not so cute or artistic, though. Actually it's

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Currently I'm in love with my serger! I am working on my stretch fabrics and jerseys, and it's been so much fun zipping them up with my babylock to get new pretty clothes. I know it's nothing spectacular in sewing-wise, but you can't live without your Ts, I'm sure you'd agree with me about it. I made two of long sleeved T shirts. The first is a very close fitted one in sheer fabric. The

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Having been inspired by a beautiful pair of designers jean pants, which was a clever patchwork of various jean pieces, I sewed my new pair by upcycling my family's worn-out pairs. The whole process of making them was so much fun! I drafted my first ever pattern for *real* clothes too. I feel like writing about my latest creation simple and short today, probably because I've had too much fun

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My best friend Chigu is a professional illustrator and of course she sews (that's why we came to know each other, needless to say). She loved the idea of the accessory carrying sachets, and immediately after finding them in my first giveaway project, she said she made THREE of them for herself. Let's check out pictures she sent to me. Hmmm, looks pretty, aren't they. Well, it's basically the

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In my last fabric shopping, I bought a flowerly rayon georgette and some other fabrics. The rayon fabric was (and still is) 140cm wide and 120cm long. I could make a blouse or a skirt from it but I..... made it a scarf. Technically, I didn't have any stitch on it nor did anything, but it was called fabric yesterday, and is now a scarf today, because I made it so. Don't you think it's lovely on

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I finally sewed this dress!! I have a long story for this dress. As I'm not good at explaining things short&clear, I try to focus on making it clear today. I saw this beautiful dress made by Ms Erica Bunker some time ago. Since then I've longed to sew my one from the same pattern. I asked my lovely friend Lindsay to get me KWIK SEW 3489 on our sewing goodies swapping last year and she was so

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There is about a day left until the giveaway entry closed, please have a look at this blog post if you haven't checked it! I am consuming the fabrics that I bought on the meeting trip, one by one, from top to bottom of the pile. I made a skirt in this peppermint blue fabric which probably consisted of wool/something synthetic blend. I thought this was an ideal fabric for a skirt when I bought

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I got some scraps of fabric, as I had an weekend trip which ended up dropping by my favorite fabric shop. ** When I saw the pretty Usherwoodc's Earring Travel Case at BurdaStyle quite some time ago, I knew I'd love to have one for me too. I always carry my favorite necklaces with me in my bag, so that I can swap one for another whenever I feel a BAD-NECKLACE-DAY. I rarely do swapping because

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I've got this mohair wool jersey in the color of cocoa powder and made a cardigan from it. I love the texture of the fabric, it's so so so soft and fluffy. I look like a teddy bear in it, but I don't care! I'm a very special teddy bear that speaks like a human. By the way, I'm not working in a tailored suit or in an uniform in the daytime. I have to say that I don't often have chances to dress

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Thanks so much, EmilyKate, for awarding me with this Kreativ Blogger Award. I normally write only about sewing and my thoughts of sewing, but today I'd like to share seven things about myself which you might not know. 1. I'm allergic to mushrooms. I was taking the tablets which contained very concentrated extract from Agaricales Grifola (a kind of mushroom) as a dietary supplement when I was

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(this is my sewing den) It's been awhile since my last post. I've been busy with catching cold for some weeks, I know it sounds not funny. I think I need some outdoor-ish hobby other than sewing, to make myself tougher against those flu bugs. Actually, when my friend M told me her idea about our "extreme sewing" (refer "extreme ironing" for understanding it) in this summer at some desolated

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I sewed my hubby a shirt. I usually sew nothing but my own clothes. I don't feel like sewing, especially when I am asked (oh well... I'm selfish). On the other hand, I have to confess that I enjoy looking at people who look happy with the clothes that I make too. So, when the energy that is needed for my rate-determining step is lower than usual, I happen to sew for others (for making myself

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A Happy New Year! It took just one day to knit this easy and pretty cowl, and took another day for a pair of wrist warmers in the same yarn. It was a quick knitting and the result was very satisfying. I usually have a problem with wearing cowls, no matter how big or small they are, I find it difficult to wear cowls rightly. I hope you know what I mean. Most cowls are simply tubular, and it

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I have decided NOT to sew any new coat for this winter in September to make my life simpler. I love to sew coats, but at the same time, I also hate to sew them very much! I have this mixed strange feeling in it. Making coats is very exciting & fruitful, and the results always make me feel accomplished and so great. However, I am also very nervous throughout its whole process of both cutting and

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I am just telling you that I love them and need them everyday! (in winter of course, but they can be protecting our arms from the sunshine in summer as well) Get a free pattern from BurdaStyle if you feel the same. yoshimi hand warmer material notes one white thin woolen turtle neck that made my neck itchy to death (deep corner in my closet) one very tired cardigan which is made of colorful

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I knitted a purple skirt. I'm so proud of myself being able to finish this knitting project with a satisfying result. I'd say I'm getting used to knitting! (I'm still just a seasonal and occasional knitter though.) The pattern is from my favorite old knitting book "A/T creation-knit" from NIHON VOGUE-SHA Co., Ltd. (Unfortunately, the book has been out of print for ages...AND written in

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 I've made two pairs of 3 tuck pants.  I made two pairs (I said it twice) in the same fabric in different sizes, using a pattern. It may sound that I start mass production, but it's not the case! It was kinda an experiment.  After finishing the one pair of these, I noticed that I could squeeze myself into a size smaller, and also that I couldn't resist to see how I look in different-sized same

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 I made a cape.  I knew the fabric had been sitting in my stash for too long, but I didn't know what to do. I knew the reason why though.  It was supposed to make a pretty poncho (cape) which had cute fringes on the edge when I bought it. I thought what I bought was a tweed, but the fabric was actually a knitted fabric. (a great mistake!) aw..  It took me more than 2 months to get over my

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I was about to sew another pair of jeans with this pale blue denim. However, that night, the idea of blue denim dress with big buttons hit my sleeping brain and I managed to remember it until the next morning. The idea seemed extraordinarily good in THAT dream, but I forgot what was that nice about it or why I thought so, without any trace. The dream left one convinced seamstress without any

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It's getting cooler and cooler day by day in my area. I've made two garments for the season. a satin shirt A shirt was made of slightly shiny satin, silk/cotton blend. I bought this fabric to make an under dress, but it was so pretty and I couldn't use it for hiding under my dress in the end. So I made this shirt. As I'm not a good shirt wearer, I tried to make it like blouse as much as

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I was a bit out of my mind on the other day (the technique that I am most bad at is gathering), and I decided to sew this blouse with much gathering work simply because it looked very pretty and also comfortable. I imagined with stars in my eyes that I could be relaxing myself in it on a cozy weekend's afternoon having a cuppa on the sofa (or something similar). However, after attaching one of

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Now it's fall in Japan, which is my favorite season! I'm delighted with that I could survive another summer, as I'm quite sensitive to the sunshine and the heat. Yay for longer sleeves!I'm activated!I made a dress and a top out of one pattern from my friend's shop.a Balloon dressOne of my dearest friends, Miho, has recently launched her online shop for sewing patterns. She is a good hobby

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I have started writing reviews!Just once, I'd like to put my review here instead of writing why I sew it, how I failed, or what happened while sewing. Maybe it makes me more informative, or maybe it's just redundant (This review is pretty much copy&paste).Anyways, I sewed this blue top and love it very much. Thank you Lindsay, who kindly sent this pattern to me on our sewing-goodies swapping!

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I usually prefer clothes which are sewn in three‐dimensional shape to those sewn in cut&paste-and-stay-flat style, just because flat clothes hardly fit me or fit me wrong more than half the time. However, I've been interested in the fact that the very flat clothes can be occasionally charming by their characteristic silhouette and style. Simple flat garments cause cramped fabric here, and excess

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I've got this gorgeous denim a month ago, and since then I couldn't stop thinking about sewing a pair of nice, dark, narrow and well-fitted jeans as one of my autumn outfits. For me, sewing pants is always a big challenge, I'm not meaning it technically, I mean that, it rarely happens to me that my home-sewn pants fit me perfect AND look nice. There's been something good in my home-sewn pants,

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I made Fatina dress from BurdaStyle.I love this ivory white cotton which has fine embroideries and stripy wrinkles on it. After making the black dress (the knock-off), I was so stimulated in color-wise, and I wanted to sew something in very opposite color. I pulled out this fabric from the pile of my treasures straight away, and so I sewed it.Because I realized that the muslin in my regular size

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Hello! In this past two months, I have sewed a lot, despite of my new-year resolution that is "sew as less as possible and think much before getting started". Well I failed! OK, I'll save it to next year and I don't need to consider another resolution as I have already one, hehe. I've been in a mood of sewing and I enjoyed sitting in front of my lovely sewing machine so much. Sewing therapy? I

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It's been a long time since I posted last time. I've been so busy! I'm happily working hard, but you know, all kinds of other issues in the life definitely love to come to you only when you are really busy! I even had to think which one to do first and which ones need to be forgotten! I lost so much weight in this hectic month, which is no good! ...Oh there are so many things to tell other than

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Now I'm wrapping a parasol which is made in pretty marimekko fabric. It's a birthday gift to my sister. The idea has been in my mind for some time, as she is quite sensitive to the sunshine (so am I) and would love a pretty parasol as a gift. I did a pilot production with making mine, and then made my sister's parasol. I bought the DIY parasol kits which contained the frames and the instructions

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First of all, I really want to thank you all for your comments on my past posts! I'm quite sorry for being so lazy and incapable to reply to all your comments, but every single comment always makes me very happy. Thank you so much! (^_^) I made this pink top for this coming summer. It has got raglan sleeves with subtle puffy ends. I love these sleeves and am very satisfied with how it turned

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I made a blouse in silk crepe.The pattern I used was Burda7834, a summery blouse with a deep V-neck and dolman sleeves.It was a very quick project, as the silk crepe was easy to handle and I had no alteration to the pattern this time. Before I got the result, I was expecting the blouse baggier and also wishing the bottom of the V-neck a bit higher from the picture on the envelope . Although the

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