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Hi!  Long time no posts.  Back, for now, to share some photos.  Sunset somewhere in Iowa.

Great Blue Heron

Japan - second week favorite photos (5)

Heading home

Japan - Sewing Stuffs 4

As I have needle related hobbies other than sewing, I purchased several needlework books.  The are (clockwise from the upper left corner):

Bird Embroidery (no English on this book), Applique (again, no English), Oya Lace ( also known as Turkish or Albanian Needle Lace and again, no English), El Nanduti del Paraguay, and Dorset Button weaving (and again, no English)

Detail from the Bird Embroidery book:

Detail from the Applique book:

I felt the line drawings would make good embroidery patterns.

Detail from Oya Lace:

Detail from Dorset Buttons:

I missed taking pictures of three other books - one on sewing, two on needlework.  Those will be done in a future post.

Japan - second week favorite photos (4)

Kyoto

Japan - Sewing Stuffs 3

No sewist's trip to Japan would be complete without purchasing some sewing and needlework books. 

Starting at the upper left is Everyday Clothes Simple and easy to mix-and-match, Kimono Remake, Men's Clothes for all Seasons, and Fu-Ko basics from the Heartwarming Life Series.

Garments included in Everyday Clothes Simple and easy to mix-and-match:

Garments included in  Fu-Ko basics:

Contents page with examples of garments from Men's Clothes for all Seasons:

And a couple pictures from Kimono Remake:

Two of the three women's pattern books have sizing that goes up to a LL (probably equal to a US L), the men's goes up to a 3L), I'm not sure what the size range is for the third book, and that doesn't worry me too much, the drafting instrutions are included - in pictures with metric measures. I have picked out several pieces from each book to have on my short list of future makes.