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Stylish Skirts - A Pattern Book Review & Make
One of the more interesting and unusual Japanese Pattern books, which I have seen, is written by Sato Watanabe a popular Japanese designer & author. This pattern book - Stylish Skirts, published...
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Fun Sewing for A Toy Wedding
Not having much time for big sewing projects over the school holidays, there are still ways and means of getting some sewing in.... When my 3 year old niece wanted two of her toys to have a wedding...
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Basic Black - A Japanese Pattern Book Review
Basic Black is a book of sewing patterns by a Japanese designer Sato Watanabe. This is one of the more interesting and exciting Japanese Pattern Books that I have used, particularly because it includes...
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Fabric Search for Elsa's Coronation Dress
If it's Elsa, it must be Frozen! We were late to the Frozen party in this house, and finally bought the film during the summer holidays. It was watched on the few wet afternoons we had this summer, my...
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Free Tickets to Knitting & Stitching Show Dublin & Harrogate
22/10/2014 10.30pmEdited to add: 8 names from comments/emails were entered and put into the very technological hat! The 3 winners of a pair of tickets each are: Fionnuala, Maeve and Jennibean.Your...
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Details on Queen Elsa's Coronation Dress
In the film Frozen there is a lot of detailed Scandanavian, and in particular Norwegian, artwork known as rosemaling. This is most evident on Elsa's Coronation dress.(The previous post looked at...
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A Girl's Winter Coat and a Craftsy Class Review
Most years, I sew a winters coat for my daughter. When Vogue pattern V9043 was released by the McCalls Pattern Company this year, I knew it was 'the one' for this winter. Then, a little serendipity...
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Sleeping Beauty - A Costume for the Panto.
As Christmas (aka pantomime season) and my daughters birthday are close together, her godmother takes her to a pantomime in Cork, our nearest city. As part of this treat, my daughter likes to wear the...
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Handmade Bags - A Pattern Book Review
Having sewn small bags from Japanese Pattern books previously, I was delighted when this new English translation of a book of bag patterns from Tuttle Publishing arrived. Emiko Takahashi's book,...
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Handmade Clothes for Girls: A Sewing Pattern Book Review
One of my favourite Japanese Sewing Book authors/pattern designers is Yuki Araki. I have 3 of her books in Japanese (one which was translated into French) and previously sewed from 2 of her pattern...
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Burda knit dress & using tiny ribbon pieces
All parents of school-going children should be prepared for the 'colour' days that happen in schools which are often for fundraising. There are red days to support county teams, blue days for autisim...
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She Wears The Pants - A Sewing Pattern Book Review
A more unusual Japanese pattern book has just been translated into English and published by Tuttle Books. 'She Wears the Pants' is a take on what has been called boyfriend style clothes. It was...
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Sewing Swimwear, without clear elastic
This orange Lycra fabric was a remnant that my daughter picked when we visited Dublin last October. As she has just started swimming classes in school, it was the perfect time to sew a new swimsuit....
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A Girl's Dress with Ribbon Sailor Collar
Sailor dress patterns have been on my 'to sew' list for my daughter for quite a while. Mostly I've been hoping that they would become a fashion trend. After waiting years for this trend to happen and...
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How-to Sew a Zip in Faux-fur Fabric
Sewing a zip in long pile faux fur fabric is not difficult. However, figuring out how to prevent the pile (long hairs) of the fabric getting stuck in the zipper teeth, took a little longer. My solution...
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A Japanese Pattern Book for Beginners - Sewing For Your Girls
Sewing For Your Girls by Yoshiko Tsukiori is much more suitable for beginners than most other Japanese books that I've sewn from. It was originally published in 2011 and is one of the recent English...
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From Refashioned Men's Shirts to Children's Clothes
Sewing during summer holidays needs to be in short bursts, so refashioning fits in with what little sewing time I have. Previous shirt refashions that I've blogged are a dress & waistcoat, a...
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How to Add Ribbon Bookmarks to Any Hardback Book
Coeliac diagnoses for most of the family last Sept/Oct has meant a lot less sewing and much more cooking and baking. Of course blogging also took a backseat. Information on the Internet about Coeliac...
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How to Sew a Notebook Cover with Ribbon Bookmarks
Notebook covers are one of the most useful and easily personalised gift ideas. I have sewn them before for teachers gifts. Fabric can be chosen depending on a recipients hobbies, work & interests....
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A 'Drapey' Japanese Bubble Dress
When I read about Japanese Pattern Sewalongs there is often a related increase in my sewing, and it was no different when Celina from petitapetitfamily.com and Mie from sewinglikemad.com wrote about...
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