My intention early of the year was to write about what I made every month regularly, but I totally forgot to find time to do that. Here’s an attempt to continue that intention.
Welcome 2022 with Nani Iro
Welcome 2022! I don’t have a list of significant resolutions this year, just like last year haha. But on sewing/creativity front, I definitely have a few in mind. One of them is of course, sewing plans! At the end of last year, I made a huge (at least for me, it’s huge) fabric purchase from Nekoneko Fabric online store, and they arrived early this year yay!
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Inayah’s take-me-home gown
It has been nearly a year since I last updated this blog. I have been active on my Instagram stories but didn’t manage to take some time off for blogging, mainly because I was tired pretty much throughout 2021 amidst pregnancy and work.
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I made Breeze Shirt(s) from Twig+Tale
This is a blog post for my old projects haha. Back in May, I purchased Breeze shirt pdf pattern from Twig+Tale. My husband is a no-nonsense guy, he cannot accept interesting/creative shirt designs, so he only liked the ones he was familiar with: formal simple plain-looking shirts. I wanted to make a nice shirt for him… so after thorough online searches + discussions with him, he liked the design of the Breeze shirt and so I made it for him.
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Simplicity 8427 Review (again)
Hello hello hello everyone, I have left my blog untouched for a long time (9 months??!!) because I was a bit busy with other things. I still sew but very slowly, and I update my progress mainly on Instagram stories and posts.
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Simplicity 8427 review
Hi everyone! It has been a long time since I have updated my blog. The sudden Movement Control Order (MCO) in Malaysia due to COVID-19 outbreak caught us all by surprise. The sudden need to work from home, the cancellation of my exam and the surprisingly scary thought of having a lot of spare time made me forgot to do a lot of routine things like updating my blog 😛 .
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Simplicity 8736 silk satin blouse Part 2
I finished making the Simplicity 8736 vintage blouse on Friday and I love it so so much that I wore it the next day! This is the first time that I see darts on the bottom section of the bodice. They help to reduce the bulk of the fabric when you wear it with a skirt or a pants outside. The blouse was so comfortable and I am glad that I made zero alteration to the pattern.
I plan to make a burnt orange linen skirt to pair with it, so stay tune!
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Simplicity 8736 silk satin blouse Part 1
Hi everyone. Amidst my chaotic life right now (office work amid mounting COVID-19 worries which led us to actually took the test and gladly found that we all have tested negative, my halted CFA studies which led me to believe that I am going to fail this Jun’20, and continued lack of motivation at work and work environment too!), I manage to take another sewing project: Simplicity 8736.
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Batik shopping in Kelantan, Malaysia (Part 3)
Hi all! So my batik fabric hunting in Kelantan did not stop with Kartika Kiara Batik. After that, we went to Wisma Songket Hjh Cik Bidah bt Cik Yin (Cik Bidah for short)…. which turned out to be my favourite of all!
They have a lot of block-printed batik fabrics. Well actually, when I think carefully about it, I would say all of the batik fabrics in the shop are block-printed. I found some hand-painted fabrics, but those are already made into finished products.
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Batik shopping in Kelantan, Malaysia (Part 2)
After our trip to Nordin Batik, we went to another batik shop, Kartika Kiara Batik. It’s along Jalan Pantai Cahaya Bulan so if you plan to go to Pantai Cahaya Bulan beach, you can drop by at this shop.
The shop has a lot of batik fabrics: hand-painted crepe silks, hand-painted cottons, hand-painted jacquards, and if I recall correctly, they also have block-printed batik fabrics. They also have a lot of ready-made garments: shirts, baju kurung, jubah.
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Yoko Saito pouch finished!
Remember my last pouch project? I finally finished it last weekend. The pattern called for a zipper, but it was a pain to work with a zipper with such a small pouch + the techniques showed in the book required zipper tools, which I don’t have. So I improvised by making a button pouch instead. This was going to be the house for my laptop mouse so having a button closure would not be a major problem.
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