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Novita!

August 19, 2010womenswear

You might wonder why I would go around screaming my own name like that, but actually it is the name of the pattern that I use for my new top. The fabric is Kokka cotton that I bought in Swany, Kamakura, it was on sale and only 1.3 m left. The bias-cut top pattern is [...]

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

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Kamakura

August 12, 2010life

We just got back from Kamakura, a beautiful city about 2 hours away from Tokyo. Sidra had really wanted to go to the beach, that was why we went there so we could go to Yuigahama beach nearby. I really love Kamakura, the city is small yet so beautiful. The streets are clean with lots [...]

Tagged as: holiday

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Blue waves shirts

August 7, 2010kidswear

I bought this cotton fabric in IKEA, it comes ready cut, 150 cm by 3 m. The pattern is called IKEA PS batik, and it is designed by Kazuyo Nomura, a textile designer. So I actually bought a piece of Japanese designer fabric in a Swedish home products retailer in its Tokyo chainstore. The fabric [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, Japanese pattern, sewing, shirt

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Blue bloomers

August 6, 2010womenswear

I have just finished making shirts for my husband and son, but haven’t taken pictures of them being worn yet as I have to wait until this weekend. Anyway, just after I cut all the pieces for both shirts, I found that there are still little fabrics left, just enough for a pair of shorts [...]

Tagged as: bloomers, burdastyle, shorts

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Chou-chou

July 30, 2010making other stuff

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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the world from a kid’s point of view

July 29, 2010life

We went out for dinner in Shinjuku with friends a couple of nights ago. Sidra took these pictures.

Tagged as: friends

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Burdastyle Book Project: finished (ugh, finally)

July 26, 2010life

After days of postponing and slacking around, I’ve finally finished my blouse for Burdastyle Book! Actually I planned to work on it just after the Yokohama Artist Market, which was, errr, 3 weeks ago, but lots of things happened between then and now. Suddenly I found the need to make a couch cover, which by [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, Burdastyle Sewing Handbook

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Soil change for our larva!

July 24, 2010life

Warning: wriggly thing pictures ahead! This morning, the three of us woke up in excitement because today was the soil change day for our larva! It can only be done every 3-4 months, so this occasion is something that we are always waiting for. It has been almost a year since we bought the larva, [...]

Tagged as: beetle

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Red stripes bags

July 22, 2010bags and purses

Summer holiday has officially started since yesterday! It’s also getting hotter and hotter now. Strangely, I never sweat that much. Most of the time there’s only a layer of ‘glow’ over my face while my husband and other people are literally drenched in sweat. Not that it’s a good news. While my powder stay in [...]

Tagged as: messenger bag, sewing, tote bag

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One shoulder dress

July 16, 2010life

So I’ve said that I won’t make any floral for sometime, but it turned out that I still have 1.35 m of this floral fabric in my stash, so I made a one shoulder dress for myself. Initially it was cut for a ruffled collar dress, but then I got kinda bored of making it [...]