Nani Iro Sewing ISBN 9784579111831
Adult Couture Stylish Dress Book ISBN 978-4-579-11185-5
This is the question - does anyone have any experience with these books. I am not a svelte New Zealand size 10, I am a tall and more of a size 14 and I am not sure whether this will be off the scale for a Japanese pattern book. Are the patterns more suited to petite people?
Are the patterns easy to follow? I have done a bit of research but would like to know whether anyone has had any expereince with these patterns.
I am ordering some Nani Iro double gauze in my next shipment and would like to make something for myself from one of the designs.
Any comments would be appreciated!
4 comments:
Try Melissa at Tiny Happy?
She did a post on that dress a couple of weeks ago I think!
Hi Lyndy, I don't have any experience with adult clothes but I have used a japanese childrens wear book for kids clothes and it was fine. I did have to size up a couple of sizes but understanding the construction was pretty simple because there are lots of illustrations. I've heard only good things about these books in blogland :) A great blog for checking out other peoples creations from Japanese pattern books is http://japancouture.canalblog.com/ It's in French but you just have to click on the picture of the book you want to look at and the creations will pop up.
:) Melinda
Hi Jennie and Melinda thank you. I have had a good look through the French website and tried to decipher some of it (come School Cert French). I have also sent an email to Melissa. Thanks again
I haven't had experience with either of those two books but I did have another Japanese dress book that I ended up giving away as the sizing only went up to probably like a size 12? The styles also really only suited more petite, slimmer builds. Well that's personal preference I know, but a tunic on a full-busted woman just doesn't look as good! It just wasn't a goer. Having said that, the patterns would probably be very easy to scale up a size or even two if you wanted. I've seen some lovely dresses from the Stylish Dress book.
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