Japanese Sewing Books

I'm so excited right now because I will have my first sewing machine delivered on June and my husband is going to Japan in May. Well, actually for the last part I'm not quite excited because I can't go with him to Japan since it is a business trip, as you know fellow crafters, Japan has a lot of cute thing such as fabrics, craft stuff and many more but his promise for bringing me some Japanese sewing books kinda makes me cheerful. And here are the preview of the books I want.

The books I really really want the most are books about wallet and bag. Those two things are kinda universal.  Who doesn't love bag and wallet, right? If I could, I do want to have a full closet of bag.

 ハンドメイドのお財布 translated as 'Handmade wallet" (ISBN 978-4-529-05006-7) 

My Little Queenie learning to sew

When I was finishing my kid's new felt wallet, out of blue, my youngest said that she wanted to stitch. I was so excited that my 6 yo daughter wanted to stitch. So, I gave her my leftover felt and taught her the simplest stitch.

Queenie in action

I really love how she insisted to draw and cut the pattern by herself. The first pattern she drew was the star (as the picture below)

She said the red one is a hand fan and the pink one is a star

She brought her crafts to school and showed them to her friends and came home with some felt craft requests from her school friends.

2 Patricks

She made another star shaped felt and 2 love shaped felts for her friends, unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of those love shaped felts before she gave those to her friends. :( 

After her brother and sister said that the star looked like Patrick Star in Spongebob, she glued some buttons on it to make it really look like Patrick.

Playing with scraps

Her last unfinished project is, as what she calls it, a little cushion. She cut the scraps, arranged and glued them. I can't wait for it to finish. Will post the picture later.

Reversible Top

After being neglected for 4 months, I finally finished this reversible top for my youngest daughter. I was worried that I wouldn't manage to finish it as I didn't have much time and have lost my desire to continue sewing it.
Well. it's not perfect but I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome. Perhaps it would have been better if I'd used sewing machine.

Please don't ask me how I made this. I totally forget how to make this reversible top but if you are curious, you can follow this link, here, or here


Happy Sewing!

So many, so little

Gosh, there are so many things going on in my mind. So many ideas that are dying to get out but so little time I have right now. Busy, busy, busy.

Meanwhile, keep crafting, guys! I'll catch up as soon as possible.