japanese pattern books

Pattern Review – Girl’s Style Book (X)

  Happy New Year folks! We hope you and yours enjoyed good times over the Christmas break. You’ll have noticed, not unusually for this time of the year, that our blog has copped a bit of neglect over the last…

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Cape. Cute.

Here’s some cute for you. A little cape that Melbourne regular Helen made for her granddaughter Scarlett (my how she’s grown!). The pattern is ‘M’, from this Japanese book:   The outer fabric, a navy self-patterned wool, is unfortunately sold…

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Drape Drapin’ with Water Snake

Emma and her Mum popped into our Melbourne store during the week. She was wearing this gorgeous dress – Pattern 3 – from the perennially popular Drape Drape. Judging by Emma’s blog, she looks to be sewing her way right…

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Girls Style Book (NOW IN ENGLISH) and a giveaway!

This popular girl’s pattern book GIRLS STYLE BOOK is now available in English. The book includes 24 designs for pretty blouses, tunics, dresses, bolero etc with full-scaled pattern sheets for sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. RRP is $29.95….

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Happy Homemade Vol.2 – Pattern R

Cute Imogen was happy to pose for me, this dress made by her mummy. Liberty Of London tana lawn Wiltshire Cranberry and Pattern R from Japanese pattern book Happy Homemade Vol.2 was used along with sweet details like these flower…

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Have dress, will dance.

A sweet, simple frock for E. To say that she loves this dress is an understatement. The pattern – M – is from this book… …and the fabric is our linen/viscose White Check (also available in black at our Melbourne…

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Stylish Dress Book 2 (again)

Following on from my last post, here’s another simple top modified from a dress pattern in Stylish Dress Book 2. The pattern is ‘D’… …and the fabric is our Japanese cotton Unfocused Dream.

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Chopstick Bloom(ing lovely…)

As a panacea to the agony challenge that is the midway (read: hard) part of this pattern, I decided Vogue 1175 and I needed time apart and some instant sewing gratification was in order. Cue the kind of fabric that…

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