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February 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Bee Factory

How many bags does a girl need? How many bags does a girl want? How many bags have I made? Not enough 😉 Today’s free pattern link is from Bee Factory. There are lots of free patterns out there for little items like bags…

February 27, 2012

Book Review – Kurai muki no kodomofuku : Simple+one

It’s Wednesday and time for another book review 🙂 Today’s book is called Kurai Muki no Kodomofuku : Simple+one. (クライ・ムキの子供服 Simple+one) The author is 倉井美由紀 but she is known as クライ・ムキ Kurai Muki. She has written lots of books on sewing! I first came across this…

February 22, 2012

Free Japanese sewing Patterns – Handmade Kokoro

Today’s free pattern site is by a mother of two young children. Which explains why the patterns are mainly for babies. Very cute and useful things to make! Comfortable shirts, pants, onesies, dresses, even a diaper cover and toys! For mothers, there is even…

February 20, 2012

Book Review – Fashionable clothes for girls

This week’s book review is about pure eye candy 🙂 The book title is 女の子のおしゃれ服, by 荒木由紀。Google tells me it means Fashionable clothes for girls. I love the pictures in this book. The little girl is so cute! When I flip through books to decide…

February 16, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – Studio Clip

Studio Clip is a company selling zakka and clothings. They have both an online store as well as physical stores in Japan. Today I discovered one of their blogs – which is a huge library of “how to make” patterns for zakka goods! To…

February 13, 2012

Book Review – Sewing Recipe

  Today’s book is the adult version of one of my previous reviews – Sewing recipe for Girl’s It’s by the same author, but with designs, lessons and techniques catered to adult wear. This book covers 6 basic styles (as shown above and below)…

February 8, 2012

Free Japanese Sewing Patterns – fil e-book

Today’s link is a really amazing find. I stumbled upon this website from a list of links on a Japanese site, so it was really a by-chance thing and not directly from any search engine. This website is by the company Fujix Ltd which…

February 6, 2012