 I’ve finally consumed all my floral fabrics! I put all the fabrics in a big cardboard box and the box is finally empty now. I’ve never made so many stuff within such a short time, and actually enjoyed this whole month making all of them. It felt strangely sad to look into that empty box. But of course now all the fabrics have transformed into these clothes that are now covering my wall. I guess I have enough of florals now! This grey and white floral are swiss dot cotton fabrics with nice dotted texture all over it. I made them into a pair of camisoles and shorts. The camisoles have tie straps and elasticized neckline, I also put a row of elastic shirring on the waist. I use Jane pattern from Burdastyle for the shorts and added side seam pockets and ruffled hem. I cut the ruffles on bias so they don’t fray. Since the fabrics are a bit transparent, I lined the shorts with thin white knit fabric. These floral fabrics are cotton in soft and sweet colors. My husband said they remind him of Vivian girls drawings by Henry [...] June 22nd, 2010 | womenswear These are some stuff that I made last week. All fabrics are cotton in various floral pattern. I made another ruffled collar dress. The last one I made is one size bigger than my usual size, so this time I made another one in smaller size. This pants are actually quite similar with the pants I often made for Sidra, so they were pretty easy to make. I only put elastic on the back waist band because I want a flat appearance on the front waist. They are very comfy! With so many floral fabrics, naturally I’ve acquired quite a bunch of fabric leftovers. I cut some into bias strips and use them to bind this simple denim vest. I’ve made several of these vests with different bindings. After a couple of days, I began to run out of ideas. So I browsed around my old stuff and decided to recreate this dress with hood, sans sleeves this time. And this is a bolero with embroidered sleeves. The neckline has a casing for drawstring, creating a gathered effect. [...] May 21st, 2010 | kidswear I miss my blog! It has been too long since I post about sewing and you might (or, uhm, you might not) wonder where I’ve been. Well, it’s just that real life sometimes got in the way of blogging life, that’s a sad fact. Or maybe I just didn’t try hard enough. So the last two weeks I had been busy with my little things, and now that they are finished, I can go back making stuff! I need something fast to sew that can make me happy again. And usually that thing is Sidra’s pants. Really, it’s my instant gratification. I’ve made a lot of pants for Sidra and he grew out of them before they had a chance to even look worn. So I had a lot of practice there and sewing a new pair of pants is like an automatic process, I don’t have to think about what to do next because my hands already know where to go. But enough rambling about the complicated thinking behind the making a boy’s pants. This is the pants that I made for Sidra yesterday. The fabric is linen in checks pattern. I bought it too long time [...] February 11th, 2010 | kidswear S: Mama, I want a gold pants. M: A gold pants? Why?? S: Because Maikeru Jakuson wears one. M: But where will you wear the gold pants to? S: I’ll wear it anywhere, to supermarket, to school…. Since I couldn’t bear the thought of him walking to school in gold pants, I tried to offer several alternatives. How about a pair of black pants? No? But Michael Jackson had one too. A blue pants? No? A grey one? No? And so on. At last we saw Michael Jackson in the ‘This is It’ DVD wearing a pair of red pants. I offered him a similar pants and Sidra excitedly agreed. So, a pair of red pants was on the way. The fabric is the brightest red corduroy I could find in a local fabric store. I use pieces of stripes fabric for pocket lining and waistband lining. The pants has narrow pipes, but I hope it’s still comfortable to wear because the fabric is a bit stretchy. To add a ‘golden’ touch, I put a little golden button on one of the pocket. Not an MJ button though, it’s a flying Ultraman. It was a very quick project as I’ve [...] August 24th, 2009 | kidswear Actually it’s been more than a week ago since I got back from summer vacation in Indonesia. In ten days, the three of us went from Tokyo to Jakarta, then to Bandung, and Jogjakarta. Yes, the families are scattered around several cities. In Jogjakarta, the big family from my mother’s side went to our family cemetery to visit my father’s grave and put some petals of roses on the tombs. There lies my father, grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents and so on. It was the first time for Sidra to visit the family cemetery (or any cemetery), so there were a lot of questions about dead people. Ten days to go to three cities, with several hours of international flight, few hours of car trips, and at least 3 hours of domestic flights prove to be too exhausting for me and my husband, However, Sidra really enjoyed the vacation and meeting so many cousins, all pampering him since he’s the youngest of them all. I think I’m still in vacation mode after we flew back home, hence no sewing projects are done during the whole time. I even couldn’t bring myself to take pictures of some dresses that [...]  | DisclaimerThis is my personal site, therefore all views expressed here represent my own and shouldn't be taken as expert opinions.
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