A bag for my daily use

I used to bring a recycle bag to office, which is a bit bigger for putting my water bottle, and ears are too long and I always got the bag touched to floor when I carried it with my hands straight.

There for I decided to make a well fitted bag for my daily use, so that I could feel more comfortable to use a bag.

Here it is, I got it sewn, I like to use it, and bring it to office everyday.

Sewing zipper

I think sewing zipper is quite a challenging part for a trousers, so that searching some informations in youtube, sharing them to keep a record for my future reference.

Part 1


Part 2

A cloth for my thermos

I always think to make a bag for my thermos to carry it easier, so I finally make it. This is the first bag I ever made this year.

It is really convenience to have this bag, I always carry my thermos here and there happily :) 

Honey sponge cake

That day, I was in mood for doing some baking, so I decided to bake a honey sponge cake, I got cake flour this time, so that it tastes softer this time.

Materials:

6 eggs

150g fine sugar

2 tablespoons milk

60g honey

150g cake flour

Size:

1 20cm x 20cm x 8cm square mould (make by thick cardboard, covered with aluminium foil)

Direction:

1. Place mixing bowl in 50C heated water, mixed the egg on that.

2. Mix fine sugar with egg at highest speed.

3. Distach egg mixture when it reach 40C.

4. Continue mixing egg mixture with high speed until it grows and clear drop from mixer (about 6~7 minutes).

5. Heated milk until 40C and mix in honey.

6. Mix the milk and honey mixture 2~3 times into egg mixture, until the mixture fully grows.

7. Mix in stiffed flour into egg mixture for 2 times, mix it with low speed for about 30 second until flour is fully mix.

8. Pour the mixture into mould from higher position.

9. Stir mixture with a chopstick to balance bubbles in mixture.

10. Bake the mixture in oven at 170C for 10 minutes, then lower temperature to 150C for another 45~50 minutes.

11. After cake is baked, wrap it with wrapping plastic immediately.

12. Put the cake upside down and remove the mould.

13. Remove aluminium foil until cake is fully cold.

14. Store the cake in a plastic back to avoid dehydration for a night for better taste.

Here is my honey sponge cake

sewing front pocket

Though teacher taught me how to sew this front pocket, but I still searched for instruction from youtube to refresh my memory, this two clips are good material to start with, I used it for sewing front pocket of SL's trousers.

I plan to sew a side pocket for SL's trousers next time :)

SL's trousers

Finally, I completed my project for sewing a pair of trousers for SL as I damaged his pant last time.

I read from book on how to draw a sewing pattern for pant, then sew it as what I learnt from teacher and instruction from some pattern company.

Besides, I needed to make a back pocket for the pant but it was not taught from teacher, so I searched every detail from youtube for steps.

Well, the finished product isn't prefect and a bit tight, but I still feel proud of it and I will improve it next time.

Somehow, I really found happy on sewing and I always wish to improve my skill to make a better garment.

sewing back pocket

Finally, I decided to make a pant for my hubby, but teacher only taught how to sew front pocket last time and I want to sew a back pocket for his pant as well, so I searched around from youtube for the method to sew back pocket, here are some useful link for it.

In English version


In non English version

buying long ruler

That day, I was thinking to buy a long ruler (100 centimetres one) as I needed it for drawing pant pattern, well... it was convenience to have a long ruler.

When I went to sewing material shop and asked for it, I only know that I need to register with government for buying long ruler =.=" and price even different between home usage and public usage. Then, boss even told me I cannot bring this ruler on road as police can catch me for that.

Ok, this is the first time I know owning a ruler actually own a weapon, is that mean all tailors are armed?

Now, I wonder if other countries are doing the same? I will see it when I visit to other countries.

fabric for pant

As my mother is a tailor and she got much experience on fabric, so I always find her when I need to buy a fabric and measurement.

Last time, I asked her how much fabric I needed for a shirt and she told me 1.5 metre for short sleeve and 2 metres for long sleeve and it was correct.

And now, I was thinking to make a pant for SL but am not sure how much fabric to buy, so did I ask my mother and she told me quite some information, now I know a little bit about fabric types.

Normally, we better choose 60 inches width fabric for pant as it is thicker than 45 inches width fabric and we only need 1.25 yards for our size, people might need 2 yards if they fall in big size or 2.5 yards for bigger size.

Besides, mother also advised that we better buy fabric brands of 8888 and Haisofi for pant.

Somehow, I feel regret that I didn't learn some tailoring knowledge from my mum as I thought I never interested on tailoring, sometime thing really will back to our original memory in childhood.