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Men’s shirt: Finally!

March 5, 2011menswear

Earlier this year, I made a resolution to learn not to rush when working on my projects. Apparently I took the resolution too far because it took me more than a month to finish my husband’s shirt! I guess the reason why I always rush my projects was because I need to finish them before [...]

Tagged as: Colette, Negroni, sew-along, sewing, shirt

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Men’s shirt: second (and wearable) muslin!

February 25, 2011menswear

This is the second muslin with pattern adjustment as described in the previous post. My husband doesn’t like to wear plaid fabric, so there are no plaid patterns in his wardrobe, all solid colors with occasional stripes. I always think that he would look good in plaids though. So I used this opportunity to make [...]

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Men’s shirt: adjusting the muslin

February 20, 2011menswear

Maybe you still remember the muslin shirt for my husband, it has been sitting beside my sewing machine the whole time begging me to do something about it. After Peter published his last post for the Men’s shirt sew-along several days ago, I finally picked up the muslin shirt and continue from that point. In the [...]

Tagged as: Colette, Negroni, sew-along, sewing, shirt

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High-waisted pants

February 18, 2011womenswear

The fabric may look like denim, but in fact it is quite lightweight. It’s cheap polyester, initially bought to make a muslin for my husband’s shirt when I changed my mind and used it for my pants instead. I’m sorry! I rarely wear nor make pants for myself, but I ‘d been wanting to try [...]

Tagged as: McCall's, McCall's 4822, pants, sewing, vintage pattern

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Men’s shirt: first muslin

February 11, 2011menswear

I started late for the Men’s shirt sew-along because I couldn’t find any cheap fabric for the muslin. That was a lie. It’s just that I always have trouble working with deadlines or going along with the others. This sew-along is not only a sewing challenge, but also a challenge to this tendency of mine. [...]

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“Don’t make anyone your everything…”

February 9, 2011life

Ikebukuro, October 2007 - photo taken by WM

“…because when they leave you’ll have nothing.” I don’t believe that. I’ve chosen to give all my heart and trust completely, and let someone becomes the sun that my life revolves around. And what if it turned out that he was unfaithful? What if he fell out of love? What if he decided to leave? [...]

Tagged as: anniversary

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Spring dress

February 3, 2011womenswear

I’ve finished tracing the pattern pieces for the MPB Men’s Shirt sew along and washed the fashion fabric. But before moving on to the next day, I still need to find some cheap fabric for the muslin. In the meantime, I finished my dress! It’s the floral printed cotton that I bought in Nippori, made with [...]

Tagged as: dress, McCall's, McCall's 9746, sewing, vintage pattern

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Findings

January 31, 2011life

I want to open this post today by telling you that I won another prize from Burdastyle! Isn’t that incredible? It’s the ‘Clean House with Krrb Corner Contest’ and I won first prize, winning a SINGER® Fashion Mate 7256 plus $200 USD. Unfortunately sending a package as big as a sewing machine all the way to Japan [...]

Tagged as: Colette, in progress, Negroni, sew-along, sewing, vintage pattern

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What the delivery man brought today

January 24, 2011life

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In my mail today

January 19, 2011life

Look at this picture! Isn’t he sooo adorable? You can immediately imagine him running around happily in the cape, pretending he could fly. His name is Diego and he lives in London. Diego just gave another chance of life to Sidra’s winter cape that has become too small. It is one of several Sidra’s clothes [...]