japanese pattern books

Pattern Book Review – Dress Style Book

Also new in store, are the latest arrivals of Japanese Pattern books, including Dress Style Book. An ideal dress pattern book to suit everyone. This pattern book offers patterns in Basic Shift, A-line, Low-Waisted, High-Waisted, Shirt, Smock and Peasant styles,…

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Happy Homemade and Simple Sewing For Kids.

Cindy sent me more lovely images of her children wearing Tessuti creations made up from Japanese pattern books. For Imogen, Liberty Lantana cotton/wool Junya Shirako Pink was chosen to make up a pretty smock dress – Pattern E from Happy…

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Stylish Dress Book 2 – Pattern F

Pamela loves Liberty. Pamela also loves Japanese pattern books. Good job we can help her out with both. This sweet, simple dress is Pattern F from Stylish Dress Book 2. The only change Pamela made was to the belt. Instead…

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Seam Allowance Guide by Hollie

Have you seen this? No longer do you have to measure and trace around each individual pattern piece. Hollie has invented a great solution, the Seam Allowance Guide, which will do it for you while you cut out your fabric!!!…

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A to Z Simple Clothes – Patterns T and K

I’ve had this post sitting on the backburner while waiting for this book to come back in stock – A to Z Simple Clothes. Merrilyn came into our Melbourne store back in January wearing this gorgeous linen ensemble made up…

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More wonderful Tessuti creations…

Received another wonderful email from one of our customers, this time from Helen who sent me these photos of her latest sewing projects in Tessuti Fabrics. Helen says: “…I made an outfit for my 6 week old granddaughter, Scarlett. Here…

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