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Hand-worked Buttonhole

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For the Butterick 4610 white jacket, I made a handworked buttonhole. I have a home sewing machine that does buttonhole (Thread Banger) but I didn’t feel like taking the sewing machine out of closet for just one buttonhole, so I decided to finish it by hand. I usually use my Juki industrial sewing machine and Juki home serger. My Thread Banger, that has been used to death is neatly been stored in the back of my closet.

Tutorials for handworked buttonholes are out there online already, so I won’t write a step-by-step process here. This one from by gum, by golly and this from A Fashionable Stitch are great. They are easy to follow and there are tons of pictures for graphic learners like me. I also made a reference to my Japanese sewing book, “Atarashii Bubunnui (新しい部分縫い）by Yutaka Shimanaka (嶋中豊）, pictured below. I love this book! The book goes over every sewing techniques you can think of for casual clothes sewing, going over different type of zipper opening to pockets. I find myself referencing this book over and over again while I made a tuxedo. I happened to find this book along with other sewing text books from Bunka Publishing at a local library for sale for 100 yen (1USD) each! I got so lucky.

I think handworked buttonholes are very durable, but I prefer the look of bound buttonholes. I used the latter for my first and second Butterick jacket/coat. Of machine sewn buttonholes, bound buttonholes and handworked buttonholes, which finish do you like the most?Japanese Sewing Book on Handworked Buttonhole Handworked Buttonhole on Jacket via vivatveritas3Handworked Buttonhole on Jacket via vivatveritas4 Handworked Buttonhole on Jacket via vivatveritas2

こちらの白ジャケットは１つボタンなのですが、ボタンホールを手縫いで穴かがりしました。
１個しかボタンホールがないので、家庭用ミシンを取り出して始末するのが面倒くさかったのもあるのですが。
手縫いの穴かがりのいいところは持ちがいいところ。
市販のファストファッションのボタンホールみたいに穴がぼろぼろになったりしません。
が、ちょっと手作り感が強いかも。

少しこういった細かいところで差をつけられるのが手作りの醍醐味ですね。
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Me Made May 15 | Most Worn Item

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Sometimes when I am in the midst of sewing, I doubt that I will love what I’m making or actually wear it. There is a gap between the ideal creation you are aiming for and what you end up making. I spent a few nights making this jacket and at the end, I totally hated the experience. The fabric was given to me by a friend, and it feels like men’s shirting fabric. As soon as I cut the fabric for this jacket I thought the fabric and patterns didn’t match. I finished making this in mid March or so and it sat in my closet without being worn until recently.
I was presently surprised by how much I like this number, now the weather is warmed up enough for me to wear it. I still think the fabric was not best suited for the pattern, but I love anything white and the light weight jacket is so useful during this season when it’s still a bit chilly outside with just a t-shirt at night and early morning. This turned out to be the most worn item for Me Made May 15!
Speaking of MMM15, I pledged, and have been incorporating at least one handmade clothes a day so far. I’m so proud of myself for making my own wardrobe! In the past seven years of my sewing life, I’ve accumulated enough clothes for myself to wear something every day.
The hardest part of MMM I found was to take pictures of my outfit daily. Most of the time I’m not in the mood for being photographed or I don’t take enough selfies… I have a big mirror in my sewing room, but if I take a selfie in front of that mirror, you will end up seeing all the mess I’m working on in the background, so the photos are not going to be pretty… I admire those of you who post MMM photos on instagram everyday.

Butterick 4610 White Summer Jacket1Outfit details: Jacket – Selfmade, T-shirt – T by Alexander Wang (best white T!), Earring – gu, Jeans – bought on Rakuten for cheap and destroy them myself.

I used Butterick 4610 for this jacket. You can see my first and second tries. I’m modifying the pattern each time and hopefully, I can use the edited pattern to make a pants suit soon! I’ve been collecting images for my ideal suits quite a while.
Check out the inside of the jacket! Isn’t it neat (bias finish)?
What’s your most worn garment so far for this year’s MMM?

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海外のソーイングコミュニティの中では、毎年Me Made Mayというイベント（？）をやります。
詳しくはこちらに記載されている通りなのですが（英語のみです）、
毎年5月は1か月間、自分の作ったものを毎日着て、写真をとってシェアする企画です。
私は毎日は余裕がなく写真を撮れないのですが、毎日１つは自分で作ったものを取り入れています！

お客様とミーティングするときなど、「これも作ったんですよ」とか言えると、ちょっとうれしいです（自己満）。
この白いジャケットは5月に一番良く着ているもの。
作ってる最中は、あーこれだめだと思いつつ作ったのですが、
なぜか毎日手に取ってしまう笑
生地など、改善点は満載なのですが、白だし、丈もちょうど良くて。
パターンはButterickの4610番を使いました。


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Four Years Old

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Kiko turned four last month. Although we threw her birthday parties every year up until now (first, second and third), we decided not to do it this year and enjoy a quiet birthday by ourselves. I made her mini cupcakes and Andy got her Belle and Rapunzel dolls. She loved them and played with them for an hour. I loved playing with my dolls as a child, so I enjoy seeing Kiko plays with them too.

On her birthday, she had  daycare in the morning. At the end of the daycare, a caretaker usually gives me a slip of paper describing what she ate, whether she pooped and one paragraph journal of how she was for the day. On that day, it said something like this in Japanese: “Today was Kiko’s birthday. She was excited to tell everyone about her birthday. I (the caretaker) asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she wanted to be like mommy”.
Parenting has ups and downs. There are some days that I feel I’m doing an alright job as a mother and there are some days that I get haunted by the thought that I might be screwing up or completely ruining Kiko’s life because of what I’m doing or not doing. It was one of those days that made me happy because she said she wanted to be like me! It was such an honor. I know you might think that every little girl says that, but it made me happy nonetheless.
娘が4歳になりました。
これまでは毎年お誕生日会をやっていたのですが、今年はお休み。
家族でゆっくり過ごすことにしました。
カップケーキを作って、一緒に飾りつけ。
保育園の先生に、大きくなったらマミーみたいになりたいってこっそり言っていたと教えてもらって、
なんかほっこり。
嬉しかったです。

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