Melanie Uematsu

The Perfect Bicycle Bag

There are definetely more stylish ways to bring your groceries home than in a dozen fissling plastic bags! This nice idea to wrap it all up in the most practical way and make it fit just perfectly in the bicycle basket, comes from my student Julie. She took the meassurements of her bike basket…

Just know what to do….

Marlene Dietrich was celebrated for her legs and for drawing attention to them, but one of her famous quotes was: Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them. Voila! Here we go!! It’s not the question of HAVING beautiful legs, it’s the question of HOW to MAKE them LOOK…

Step Color

Last Saturday one of my students wanted to do an emroidery on the body suit of her baby and brought this “Step Color” yarn with her… I haven’t seen it before, but you can purchase it from Yuzawaya. It is a yarn that changes its color approximately all 15cm. Really cute, if you…

Time to smock…

I went to Nippori last week and again I found soo many (too many) nice textiles. I couldn’t leave this one behind. It is a Japanese cotton in black with a print of white stripes and golden dots. It happened that I changed the whole style of the pattern that I had in mind and…

Invited to attend a Wedding

We got invited to aWedding this weekend and I made a very simple, but pretty dress with a jacket for my girl. The dress is an A- line cut of taffeta with a buttonline at the front, three braids on every side and an underlayer from white cotton with a lace on the hem. The…

Hello Spring! A Liberty Skirt

My new student just finished her first circle skirt from Liberty Fabric. Liberty is a textile company from the UK and famous for their very fine cottons with prints in amazingly high quality. The skirt is cut in a half circle with a beltband and a consealer zipper on the back.

The New “Day Ticket”

Ok, you have had Hanami, took off your jackets and have put the down jackets in the oshi-ire for next year! Time to think about your Spring collection! I thought about giving all students the chance to work as much as possible on it and am offering you now… the brand new “Day Ticket”!! 4…

Macha Latte and Chiffoncake

Do you like macha latte and chiffoncake? If yes, then you might need a perfect outfit to enjoy your tea party? My Vietnamese student An just finished her tunic… in the colors of macha latte and from the light an delicate textile called chiffon. A beautiful and delicious match…

Cars…

Boys love this movie And my little client hopefully loves his new bag set for his first class at elementary school!

Preparing for Summer

My students already preparing for Summer A beachdress, cotton, supermini, taken on the beach of Miyanmar and a pair of skirt shorts (taken in my cold atelier….)