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Five Lovely Things

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Happy Friday! I am so ready for the weekend. This is the first weekend in a while that I don’t have anything planned. I’m looking forward to spending the day with my family, relaxing.  What are your weekend plans?

1. Vintage high waist trousers that I scored for $6. Look at the belt loop details! I love it. I have to incorporate this into my sewing.
2. Experimenting with unusual color combinations, like mint + purple. I also love navy + lilac and pink + red.
3. Spring nails! Don’t they remind you of Easter eggs?
4.  Do you remember friendship bracelets? When I was little, the were  called “promise rings” in Japan…only in Japan. I remember learning to knot the embroidery flosses in different ways to make bracelets. I recently saw some friendship bracelets in the instagram pictures (search #armswag, and you’ll find a ton of inspiration!) and decided to make them again. Oh I love it. I’m  making them for no specific purpose, but just knotting the flosses for hours is amazingly relaxing. :p I used the tutorials from this site (Japanese).
5. New heels with metal caps from ASOS. I love them but they hurt!

Mommy’s Diary 47: Letter K

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I’ve been wanting a cute letter object for a nursery for a while, something like this shop has. But these are quite expensive. So I was thrilled when I came across this tutorial of the yarn wrapped letter.

Basically, you use a cardboard to create a base shape, and wrap the yarn around to hide the cardboard. I used fabric scraps instead since I figured it would take less time. I didn’t have a patience of wrapping the yard around for a million times!

It was a fun project. I made this on the same day as I made the pig pinata. Plus, Kiko got to play with some pieces of cardboard 🙂

Lace and Neon

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I clearly remember my first encounter with the neon trend. I kept seeing these bright neon satchels from the Cambridge Satchel Company all over on fashion blogs and sites. I first thought they looked terrible. It hurt my eyes they were so bright. I complained to Andy about this trend being so ugly. He responded, “babe, give it a time”. I said, “Why?” Andy: “Because you like anything that’s trendy”. “…”.

After a few months, I started liking the neon! It’s crazy. Although, I’d like to incorporate in in a more subtle way. So here is my attempt to incorporate neon into my garment:)

I added the neon piping to the seamlines. I initially had a different plan for this lace fabric. I was planning on making an I line dress with cut out back, but I saw a cute skater inspired dress in Japanese magazine, so I decided to go for that style.

The bodice is simple and fitted with princess seams. The skirt part is based on my Scallop Waist Skirt (free pattern download here). I added side in-seam pockets. The dress is fully lined. Since the lace had some stretch, I ironed on the fusible interface strips on curved seam lines to prevent it from stretching out.

I’ve already worn this dress five times – I love it! The bodice fits me like gloves. What makes this dress even more special is that it matches with Kiko’s dress.

Do you like the neon trend? How would you wear it?