The DSTY is the German School in Tokyo Yokohama and for the 4th year I have been teaching a fashion and sewing course for girls now! It was great fun again and the girls have proven real talent on the machines. The theme for this year’s Summerschool was “Circus” and everyone created a bag for…
Category: Miscellaneous
A Golden Vest
Do you remember this: Belle’s Golden Dress And now I have finished the order for the vest of her husband. A golden vest, made of shiny velvet and satin. There is a hidden buttonline and two piped pockets as special gimmicks.
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.
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…
Silk Screen Workshop
I am planning a long time already on offering Silk Screen Workshops. If you are interested, please contact me
Puppets
Last year already, I made these puppets for the company World Family K.K. They have Schools and they produce shows, videos, an internet TV program and more to teach English to  Kids in Japan and other Asian countries. I was really blessed and happy to create 11 puppets that they wanted to use for their…
Show Costumes
Last Winter (sorry this post is late 🙂 I made several costumes for the company World Family K.K. For their Christmas Show I made the Tree and the Snowman. Look how cute they are! The artdirection of the director was great!
TIS Sewing Club
We just had another nice Sewing Club lesson at the Tokyo International School! Once a week I am teaching kids of 3rd and 4th grade to sew. Either with the machine or per hand. I’ll upload some of their cute projects soon!! If you are interested to book sewing classes for kids, please CONTACT me….
Beauty and the Beast – Belle’s Golden Dress
One month ago I was asked to make Bell’s Golden Robe from the musical Beauty and the Beast. Please view the formation of all the parts, layers and decorations until the whole piece was completed. There was a great tutorial online from a woman, who has specialized in copying movie dresses. I’d like to…
Birds and Dancers at DAAD Tokyo
These are costumes that I created for a dance performance called “Birds at DAAD Tokyo”. The data flow was a little slow, so this is the only picture that I can post. More details at Tokyo.DAAD.de
Melanie Uematsu 