Ideas for Summer 2014 Vol.4

The top is a crushed polyester, but very light and airy. As an extra accent I finished the V-neck collar with a black lace and a golden bias tape, some feathers and a golden button. I loved the mosaic pattern and made a skirt in the same color arrangement: blue, red, white, gold, purple and lavender. I…

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Ideas for Summer 2014, Vol 1

I’m just posting some of my ideas for the upcoming heat***   Please also view the previous post A Simple Pattern T-Shirt and  A Pink T-Shirt

Make a Bag in 2 Hours

This nice lady came all the way from India to join my Sewing Classes 🙂 Not quite… Madhjuri is visiting her daughter, granddaughter and son in law here in Tokyo and needs a nice activity for 5 weeks. She is sewing amazingly fast and very good! Everytime she comes and asks: “I have to see,…

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Tokyo International School- Sewing with Kids, Project One

Since May this year I am teaching an After School Activity at TIS (Tokyo International School), called “The Sewing Club”. Much fun, 8 energetic girls participate and we jus finished our first mixed media project: sewing by hand, sewing with the machine and printing. The outcome were these really cute bags.

For Great Adventures

Little girls need the perfect clothing for great adventures. Luckily we have a sewing granny! She made the two blue seaters and the red-blue striped one. I made the first sample from the blue-white fabric. We used a heavy weight knit and for the collars and hems a jersey or silk-wool. Those pull-overs are really practical…

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Jimbei from Yukata Fabric

If your boy were about 5000km (3000Miles) away, what present would you send him? My student decided to sew a Summer Jimbee from Yukata fabric and the outcome is super cute!! Please view also the previous post: A Jimbei for the Japanese Summer

If You Love Your Sofa… Part 2

Last year already I got one request to fix sofa cussions. It seems that once a sofa textile starts to rip apart, there is no way to stop it …pheeew. But if you love your sofa and you don’t want to make another trip to the interior shops and look for a long time until…

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A Backpack for Spring

This is such a beautiful picture!! This lady came from Indonesia to learn sewing at the machine and brought a project to start with. It is a pretty simple backpack that we finished in 3,5 hours. To make the straps stronger, we inserted an extra sturdy interface (viseline). The rose cotton print is matching her…

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