Hot Sandwich Maker

I've wanted this for a looong time! This comes with waffle plates, sandwich plates and taiyaki, which is a traditional Japanese cake, plates. I'm not interested in taiyaki, but I couldn't change it to others. The reason I've wanted is I can "bake" doughnuts instead of deep frying. I'm sure fried doughnuts should taste better but it's oily for me, and also my husband is on diet!(really? yes. I've controlled his calories as much as possible.) It's good for my child to eat lots. Anyway, although I didn't want taiyaki plates I had to get the doughnuts plates too.

But now I think the taiyaki plates aren't waste. Probably I can make something instead of real taiyaki! Real ones have lots of sweet bean paste inside but I'm not big fun of the paste. It's a little too sweet for me, so I just can eat only a bit at one time.

Last month I was looking at the catalog to decide which plates to buy, I was thinkng about getting the panini plates as well. However, I gave up because I need to see how often I'd make panini, so I'll wait and see.

Anyway, I need to find good recipes now! What can I make for my family?

Thanks for reading!

Attaching the Collar on the Kimono

This is the most time-consuming and difficult part of sewing kimono. Oh, well, at least for me. Kimono consists of two parts of collars if it's an hitoe, which is a single layered kimono or yukata that is made of cotton and worn in summer, but formal kimono consists of three parts of them!

For now, I'm making hitoe. I've finished the first part of collar sewing. This part of collar is called "hon-eri," and the other part, which I've got to work on it soon, is called "tomo-eri."

Even pinning took a while because it didn't seem well. And finally, I finished sewing! But wait, I need to go through more hard parts to be finish the collars... Oops! I'll upload more photos later.

Playing with Needles

It's fun to make something without thinking anything serious. Do I use my brain or not? It doesn't always succeed but sometimes it turns out right! This time I played with fukuro-obi fabric, and it turned out like this.

I made a necklace!

Fun Fun Fun! Thanks for reading!