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A guest post and A Best Top!

May 24, 2011life
Scallop hat

It is raining outside and the sky is a bit dark, but there are sunshine in my house because I have two wonderful news today! By now, you must have been following the Free Pattern Month over at Grosgrain blog. If you haven’t, you should check it out! It is a whole month devoted for [...]

Tagged as: featured, hats, sew-along, sewing, top

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Cockroach plush tutorial

March 26, 2011making other stuff
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A cockroach plushie? Who needs cute bear or cat plushies? I’m sure every boy would love a huggable cockroach! This is Sidra’s favorite toy at the moment, he calls it Gokiburi-kun (gokiburi means… well, cockroach). The cockroach is basically  just an oval shape pillow with legs. The wings and head are made with leftover dupioni silk [...]

Tagged as: doll, sewing, toys

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Pointed hood tutorial

March 26, 2011kidswear
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These hoodies were inspired by a children book, みんなのこびと (Minna no Kobito) by Toshitaka Nabata, or loosely translated as ‘Everyone’s Kobito’. I made them for the Once Upon a Thread event at No Big Dill. Check out my story and pictures over there! The fabric is cotton knit, very soft and comfortable. The hoodies will be good [...]

Tagged as: knit fabric, sewing, t-shirt

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Featured in Sew News!

October 29, 2010bags and purses
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I’m in a magazine cover! Well, at least my handmade organizers are ^_^ If you can get your hands on the newest (December 2010/January 2011) issue of Sew News magazine, you would see five organizer wallets featured in the cover. They were handmade by me! You can see the cover in the Sew News facebook page here. [...]

Tagged as: featured

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Tutorial: Side slant pocket

September 22, 2010kidswear
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A reader commented on my post ‘Three meters of black linen’ , asking about how I made the side slant pockets for my son’s pants. So this is a tutorial on how I made them. You can also use this method for adult’s clothing by simply changing the dimensions. Making the pockets pattern Trace the [...]

Tagged as: pants, sewing

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Chou-chou

July 30, 2010making other stuff
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Not a very spectacular project, but this thing proves to be very useful in summer. I think it is also called scrunchie, but it is called chou-chou here and I like the name better. I found several tutorials for making chou-chou, but they always involve hand-stitching, which I’m too lazy to do for such a [...]

Tagged as: chou-chou, sewing

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Fabric button necklaces

April 26, 2010making other stuff
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I always love colourful and big necklaces. So I got an idea of a simple necklace with big fabric-covered button as the pendant. It’s not a new idea actually, there’s already a lot of button accessories everywhere, but I love making them. I think it’s a good way of using fabric scraps that are too [...]

Tagged as: necklace

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Reversible bag pattern

April 19, 2010bags and purses
A reversible bag!

Just a quick post to tell you that I’ve made a PDF pattern of my reversible bag. It has rounded bottom with a couple of darts on the side. Link for download is at the end of this post. The instruction for making the bag is also available in PDF file, or go to this post [...]

Tagged as: sewing

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Making reversible bag

April 16, 2010bags and purses
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I was cutting fabrics to make a reversible bag when I read the newest comment in last post where Juliet asked me about sewing reversible Charlie bag. Yes, I cut fabrics in front of my computer, and everytime it blinks, I’ll stop what I’m doing to look at my inbox, twitter, facebook, etc. Bad habit. [...]

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Tissue case tutorial

February 23, 2010tutorials
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I’ve used my new sewing machine to make these very simple tissue cases from scrap of linen fabrics. They are basically a lined fabric rectangle folded to meet at the center. I make the outer fabric longer than the lining fabric so it automatically folded inside, because I don’t like the lining fabric showing at [...]

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