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Wrap dress (vintage Simplicity 7705)

October 17, 2011womenswear

I always love the idea of wearing a wrap dress. It is so easy, no zipper and buttons, yet the whole look is so feminine. I looked around at ebay and got myself surprised at the price of the original vintage Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress patterns, especially Vogue 1548 and 1549. Apparently they are [...]

Tagged as: dress, sewing, simplicity, simplicity 7705, vintage pattern

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Cotton knit lingerie set

October 13, 2011womenswear

Another new set of bra and panties that I made yesterday. Nothing really special, no frills nor lace as I wanted something simple this time. The fabric is cotton knit by Liberty of London. I need about half yard to make the whole set. The bra pattern is Pin-up Girls Classic Bra #1230, size 30C. This [...]

Tagged as: lingerie, Merckwaerdigh, Pin-up Girls, sewing, underwear

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Weekend, October

October 11, 2011life

Not much sewing/crafting done lately, but here’s a bunch of silliness that can be usually spotted in any Madame Tussauds exhibition. Madame Tussauds temporary exhibition at Decks Tokyo Beach Mall in Odaiba, run until January 4, 2012.

Tagged as: weekend

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Two Pendrells and One Kasia

September 30, 2011womenswear

Lately I’ve been expanding my wardrobe with more skirts and tops. I have lots of dresses already, and I feel that I need to introduce something different to my wardrobe. My style always changes subtly from time to time, otherwise I will get bored of myself! I bought Pendrell blouse pattern by Tasia from [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, sewaholic, sewing, skirt, top

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Corduroy skirt

September 24, 2011womenswear

I still have leftover corduroy fabric from Sidra’s Henry shirt, which is just enough for a little skirt for myself. Although it looks purple in the pictures, the fabric actually has more blue in real life. The pattern is 10/2010 Wool Skirt #115A by Burdastyle. The smallest size is still too big for me, so I [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, sewing, skirt

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Sewing for Boys book giveaway winner!

September 16, 2011review/giveaway

I have two winners of the Sewing for Boys book giveaway!

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Button-up skirt

September 15, 2011womenswear

A quick project that I did yesterday. The fabric is called ‘lurik’, a traditional handloom from Central Java, Indonesia, that I bought in our summer vacation. Lurik usually has bold stripes pattern and mostly used for a certain type of male clothing called ‘surjan’ like the one Sidra wore in this picture. The one [...]

Tagged as: burdastyle, sewing, skirt

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Indigo blue corduroy shirt

September 13, 2011kidswear

I bought the corduroy fabric with the thought of making a pair of pants for Sidra. But when I showed the fabric to him, Sidra said that he wanted a shirt from this fabric. His reason? He said, “Everyone would say that this fabric is better as a pair of pants, so I want to be [...]

Tagged as: sewing, sewing for boys, shirt

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Sewing for Boys blog tour and giveaway!

September 13, 2011kidswear

Everybody know how hard it is to find nice clothes for boys. Now you think that you can always make them yourself, but where’s the sewing patterns?! It seems that nice sewing pattern for boys are even harder to find. So I was very excited when I heard about Sewing for Boys by Shelly Figueroa and Karen LePage from Patterns by [...]

Tagged as: book, review, sewing for boys

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Baby blue bodysuit

September 2, 2011womenswear

I sewed something today! No, not a dress, but a lingerie bodysuit. I was always curious with this type of lingerie, but couldn’t bring myself to buy something so expensive that I wouldn’t wear often. The pattern is Merckwaerdigh PBH30 that I won sometime ago at Merckwaerdigh ebay auction. The pattern is for push-up underwired bra, bustier, [...]