Dress -White and Navy

 

The othe day, I went to Nippori, the biggest fabric market town you know, and got some nice fabrics at very cheap price there!

Can you believe that this adorable fabric is only 100yen a meter?

I used the bi-colored dress pattern that I had provided until the end of last month. 

I really love this dress, and I'm going to wear this with vivid colored tights. :)

knit dress & cardigan

I made this dress from wool knit fabric.

 

and this cardigan from the rest fabric piece.

The front part is wet with water to erase marks...

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I made this cookie house using MUJI kit. 

It was a little difficult ,but a big fun!

Shirt Dress, My 3rd Version

This is my 3rd version from the pleated tunic dress pattern.

very adorable scalloped cotton

I added a belt, because it looked a maternity or something when I wore with nothing....

I prefer to wear it in this way to be a light jacket with a belt tied backside !

I'm really satisfied with this pattern! :)

BUT  I'm wondering if it looks like a nighty...
If so, I'm thinking about dying to change the color.... What do you think???

Remade Dress

I tried to remake clothes for the first time! I have forgotton to take a before photo...what a silly!
This was a dress with boat neck and baloon sleeves that I made 3 or 4 years ago, which looked no longer out of date!
I removed the sleeves and cut neck line to make it wider, and made a bias tape from the sleeves.
I binded neck line and arm holes with the bias tape, and sewed my waist line with an elastic
thread.
I'm going to wear this dress as casual with a pair of leggins and a parka. :-)

can you see this elastic waist?

also goes well with this dressy cardigan

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the last black berries.. see you on next summer!

Cozy Nighties

A month has already passed after the last post... I'm alive...My interests have been changing day by day, and gone so far from sewing so long...thus I didn't intend to sit in front of my sewing machines.....

After a long time, I made 2 nighties. Here in Japan, because of a rainy season, temperature and humidity are tooooo high even at night. Cannot sleep!! :( So I absoluterly needed some cozy and cool nighties!

The first one. 

  And the second. I used double-gause fabric.

I made it longer.

Neck details were changed a little.

I prefer the second one.

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I started 'BIOTOPE'!!

Water-lily, which is one of my favorite flowers!, and some water plants are planted together in the bowl. Small fish, which is called Medaka in Japanese, is also swimming happily in the water.

Crinkled Dress

 I used the same pattern as a tiered long dress I made before.

This time fabric was short a bit, so I made it a knee-length dress.

 

I added this frill on the top of front, and I like it so much. :-)

Can you see this crinkle? I made it by myself!

At first, it was TOO voluminous just like the pregnant or a baloon !

(OH, I should take a before photo... what a stupid.. )

That was just because the fabric was stiff a bit.

I was thinking how to do with it, and I remembered a wonderful idea!!

  I got a dress wet in the water, made it twisted,

and left it under the sun one day.

 Just did this.

 

I got a good fit!!

I was satisfied with the result so much.

I highly recommend this way, but please note it can be only for cotton.

And do the same when you wash it.

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LOVELY ZIPPERS

I listed some new zippers!
They are the perfect addition to your pouches and bags!  ;-)

Tiered Long Dress

This fabric is wool gauze, which was only \500(about $5-6)! Yeah!

It is needed only one simple pattern, front and back are the same!

I used elastic band and hook-and-loop fastener for the waist belt. 

And I sewed with elastic thread as the same way to make shirring 

on waist line to avoid to be a maternity dress without the belt...