Another Black

I drafted a pattern for this blouse as I referred to ' Lady Boutique'. It's a Japanese monthly sewing magazine, which gives me a lot of ideas and hints for making patterns. Very helpful for me! 

This blouse looks very classic, and also goes well with jeans or casual pairs of pants.

Top of fly makes V-line.

 I put white buttons with pink thread.
It adds colors on it. I love pink ;-)

And I made shirrings on the hem. This is one of my favorite techniques.

I used elastic thread for bobbin.
I would I had black one...but I like it because it's easy to make shirrings with it!

I had a lot of rain, and cold a bit today...
I can't wait for spring to wear this blouse!!:-)

Black Hood Jacket

I made my hood jakcet from black linen.

 Pattern is my own original. :-)

 

I made a big mistake on the pattern as I posted on the other day.

I had to repair it , but fabric was left not so enough...

Sleeves became slightly shorter...

So I made it to be able to be rolled up.

I like it so much as a result!

 These buttons are from Overspill's shop.

They look like goid coins, and very cool, 

 I love them so much!

At first, I made all the buttuns on front these gold buttons,
but I felt it seemed too much.
So I put it on the top only, and used big black snaps for the others.

Strings are 'Edo-himo' , which is a kind of Japanese style code.

They are very smooth and shiny, and very strong!

Very useful!

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I went to see Sakura this weekend.
There are a lot of Sakura trees along the river.

What a beautiful arcade!

My dog also enjoyed Sakura. :-)

from Finland

I purchased some cute fabrics pieces from maili's shop.

This is one of them.

I sewed the edges to make it a table runner.

 How cute, isn't it??

It goes well with my alder dinning table!

Something is wrong......

I could buy a good Linen fabric piece cheaply ,

so now  I have been making my drawstring parker jacket.

All I have to do is... just to buy buttons and strings.

BUT

I wonder something is wrong with their sleeves.....

They are curving toward back.

Are the front side and back side opposite? 

No..

Now I remembered that I felt something was wrong when I drafted the sleeve pattern.

This is the pattern. You noticed the big mistake?

Back arm lenght must be longer than front one.

Of course I knew, but I paid no attention about that at that time.

I don't know why I did such like that!　Too poor!

Today I'm going to cut stiches,

and draft a correct pattern again,

cut fabric again,

and sew again...

Girl's balloon dress

This is my first article about my creations.

I have been learning dressmaking and pattern making.

They're so difficult, but also so much fun for me!!

Now I'm trying to draft some girls' clothes patterns.

I made this girl's camisole dress from dotted lavender fabric. 

How does it look?

 

It has balloon style skirts.

I used double-gauze as a lining, and it would be comfortable for kids.

I also love these shoulder strings.

They can be useful to be changed the length as the growth, I suppose.

Next project will be a raglan sleeve dress.

Now in Japan, it's the most beautiful season to enjoy watching many kinds of flowers!!

This is Kobushi, Magnolia kobus in English.

So beautiful!

UME -a Japanese apricot

I went to a park  named 'Kairakuen' that is famous for its big Ume garden.
Click HERE if you want to know about it.

Ume is full of blossom now, and so many people were enjoying seeing them.
Most Japanese people really love to see flowers and natures.

We have Ume this season, Sakura(Cherry blossoms) next month and autumn leaves in October and so on....

There were many people who were eating while watching.
So we also bought box lunches( we call it Bento in Japanese) ;)
Eating under the sun was so enjoyable! And Bento was very good :)

We had a very goood time...
I cannot wait for Sakura season!!

SUSHI~~~!

 

I went to  a fish market with my husband this Sunday.

It was about 1 and a half hours driving from my town... far a little.

Many people are making  a line to have raw oysters.

 

A big mountain of oyster shells!!

Most of Japanese people love them, but I don't like so much.

I prefer fried or boiled rather than raw ones....

Our purpose on this day was to eat flesh and delicious SUSHI! 

SUSHI is a kind of  famous Japanese foods, you know.

 We went Sushi bar near the market where we can eat them cheap...

We call this type of Sushi bar  "Revolving Sushi Bar".

 

Sushi comes automatically on the revolving velt covyer,

and I can select my own food..

 Very unique system!

 

 

I had a happy Sunday :)