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Nice weekend

September 21, 2010life

Yesterday was a national holiday, so we had three days weekend! Sidra was very happy about it, seeing him so happy reminds me of the school days when a one day off was very appreciated because it meant one day without homeworks and one more night of sleeping late. We went to Kayo‘s place on [...]

Tagged as: friends, weekend

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Three meters of black linen

September 13, 2010kidswear

I found this black linen in Yuzawaya sale last week, it was discounted pretty big so I bought 3 meters of it. I planned to make two pairs of shorts for my husband since the one he’s been using has already ripped at the seams. Actually he doesn’t mind the (big) rip, but it wasn’t [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, pants, self-drafted, sewing, shorts, skirt

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More embroideries!

September 12, 2010life

My husband continues his journey in embroidery! He began to ask me and Sidra for things to embroider, and Sidra, as a Mario Bros game big fan, immediately asked for an embroidery of Luigi. My husband made a quick sketch on the T-shirt and began to embroider the T-shirt, still using backstitches. He finished it [...]

Tagged as: embroidery

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Bag for Sensei

September 12, 2010bags and purses

Since about three months ago, I’ve been seeing a chiropractor for my back pain, caused by scoliosis. In Japan, teacher, doctor, therapist are called ‘sensei‘, so that is what we called her. Her office is on the second floor of her house, not very far from our house. My husband, Sidra, and I usually come [...]

Tagged as: health, sewing, shopping bag

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Men’s cropped pants

September 9, 2010menswear

This is the first time I made a pair of men’s pants! The fabric is delicious black linen that I bought in Swany, Kamakura. The width of the fabric is 145 cm, but there was only 1.1 m left, not enough for a full length pants. Fortunately, my husband is all into cropped pants now, [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, pants, sewing

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Dotty Leia dress

September 1, 2010womenswear

I finished the dress! The dress pattern is called Leia, and it is another pattern from Tamanegi Kobo, a Japanese pattern shop. The dress is pretty simple, but sewing the curved lines was quite challenging, so I guess this is not really a project for a beginner. Although the instruction is in Japanese, the diagrams [...]

Tagged as: dress, Japanese pattern, sewing, tamanegi-kobo

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What I did today

August 31, 2010womenswear

Sidra had some friends coming today. Since being in the same room with jumping and screaming little boys is not my idea of fun, I retreated to my sewing room upstairs and looked for things to do. These curves are so challenging and fun at the same time! Loving it so far! Both fabrics are [...]

Tagged as: in progress, sewing

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Learning to embroider

August 31, 2010life

I taught my husband to embroider last weekend, and he really loves it! For his first project, he made a sketch based on his own illustration, ‘Space Cow’ (whatever it is), and drew it on a tote bag. I made the tote bag sometime ago and it has become my daily grocery bag. It was [...]

Tagged as: embroidery

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Surprise package!

August 30, 2010life

The postman brought me a surprise package a couple of days ago, it’s from Kayo! The package contained many pretty things, one of them is Kayo’s handmade floral camisole for me! Now I have an original creation by Kayo, I’m so happy (^_^)v Kayo also put some pretty candies for Sidra (the butter candies are [...]

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Novita dress

August 26, 2010womenswear

I made Novita again! But I didn’t want to make the same thing and changed it into a dress by simply sewing a wide gathered strip of fabric on the hem. The strip of fabric follow the curved hem, so the front part of my dress is shorter than the back. The fabric is Indonesian [...]