• Cloth (AKA TBD),  Sewing Projects

    Don’t Judge Me

    Yes, I know. I didn’t even start any of the projects discussed in my previous cloth post. I swear there was a legitimate reason for me to hop over to nippori tomato on my day off a couple weeks ago, but for the life of me I cannot recall it. What I do recall is the beautiful, and relatively inexpensive, linen in royal blue and striped red and blue that I picked up. Or the luscious silver silk I decided I needed in order to maintain ordinary respiration. I mean look at it. **Sighs dreamily** Ahem. So I do, in…

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  • DIY,  Sewing Projects

    Velvet Swing Dress

    Compulsive cloth-buyer that I am, over a year ago when velvet dresses were popping up on Pinterest and Instagram and nine months pregnant I became obsessed with the idea of owning a velvet dress. Never mind that I lacked the…

  • DIY,  Sewing Projects

    Tiered Linen Dress

    This summer was relatively cool for Tokyo, but by the time July came around the familiar sweltering, humid days and nights made a reappearance, and I was back to sweating through work clothes and dreaming of linen and cotton. By…

  • DIY,  Sewing Projects

    The Dress Form

    Even before I really knew anything about proper clothes-making or pattern drafting, I wanted a dress form. Most patterns or sewing projects require some basic fitting, and most of my early sewing failures as a girl came from my ignorance…

  • Cloth (AKA TBD),  Sewing Projects

    Indulging my Cloth Problem

    I have a well documented cloth problem. By which I mean, not actually well documented, just really a chaotic pile of cloth and receipts only recently placed into former amazon shipping boxes that frequently tests the stability of my marriage.But…

  • Introduction

    A Blog is Born

    The internet is populated with a multitude of social media accounts and blogs (at least for the “older” crowd of internet denizens), which would make the poor contributions of an adequate sewer unremarkable at best and superfluous at worst. Nonetheless,…