Moleskine Fish Log

I started fishing about 5 years ago now.
Been logging my fishing trips in my planner but I thought maybe it's time to have its own official fishing logbook!

It's one of those thing I'm hoping to log my entire fishing life recorded in this notebook.

Scroll down to see the tutorial!






Materials:
- Moleskine Soft Cover Ruled Notebook: 192 lined pages, 13x21cm - 5x81/4''
- 1 Sewing Needle
- 1 colors Embroidery Threads
- Sewing Awl or Ice Pick
- Pencil and Eraser


1: Design a cover. 







2: With piece of paper following the dimension of the notebook, draw out the design.

You are using this as transferring paper, so use a pencil to color in the entire design.





3. Open the notebook and place the transfer behind the cover(front side facing down). Use any paper clip to secure the transfer if needed.

Redraw the design backward to transfer the design.





4. Use sewing awl to prick holes with desired length. This will be your stitch length.




This is how it looks like from the back cover(image left) and the front cover(image right).





5. With embroidery thread, unthread the strings(it's usually 6-ply thread). I used 3-ply thread for stitching.





6. Now follow the holes to stitch.




Example result:

Outfit Inspiration 17

Summer outfit!

Target : white tank-top / Orbs : skirt / Garage Clothing : flip-flops / Urban Outfitter : canvas bag / Coolibar : wicker hat

Sketches in 2016 Part 4

More archives of sketches I've done.

Sketches in 2016 Part 1
Sketches in 2016 Part 2
Sketches in 2016 Part 3

Canada 150

I was born and raised here, and plan to grow old with this country!

Happy Canada Day!

PINK

PINK PINK PINK!

Went for punchy hot pink with my favorite monochrome painting approach!
What color should I do next?

Scroll down to see close up and a mini tutorial of this illustration.

Oyster Sauce Soboro Don

Soboro donburi is Japanese dish that uses ground chicken with soy base sauce mixed in and put on top of bowl of rice.

This one is slightly difference where you use oyster sauce as part of it and egg tartar sauce. It gives a creamy texture when you mix between these two!

If you don't have Oyster sauce you can replace it with soy sauce and it will still goes well with egg tartar. Another thing you can replace is use mustard sauce instead of mayo.





Oyster Sauce Soboro Don 
- 350g~400g ground chicken
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 bowls of cooked rice
- green onion, chopped for garnish

Oyster Sauce:
- 1.5 tbsp rice vinegar
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 4 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce (OR replace with soy sauce)
- pinch spice
- 1/2 tbsp potato starch(with 1 tbsp water mixed in)

Tartar Sauce:
- 2 half boiled eggs
- 3-4 tbsp mayo OR 1-2 tsp mustard
- 1/2 tsp rice vinegar
- 1 tsp sugar
- pinch of salt and ground pepper


1. Lightly mash eggs into chunks with fork and add all tartar sauce in a bowl, mix and set aside.

2. Heat med. size skillet and satay onion until brown. Meanwhile in a separate bowl make the oyster sauce.

3. Add ground chicken with the onion.

4. When chicken is fully cooked, add oyster sauce to mix well, then add potato starch.

5. In the bowl follow this in order: rice ► chicken ► tartar sauce ► green onion 

Bow Tie

Made bow tie for Tim to attend a wedding.

This bow tie is made with simple construction compare to traditional bow tie. It's using elastic band as strap so it's easy to put over through your head and go under the collar.

With this simple bow tie you can use it as a bow tie, hair clip or pins!




Originally I was going to make fabric strap but made last minute change that using elastic band. It is a lot easy alternative to wear it around the collar.

Materials:
- Denim fabric
- Elastic band

Supply:
- Fabric scissors
- Sewing needle
- Thread
- Ruler/tape measure
- Piece of paper
- Sewing machine
- Iron

Bow tie measurement:
Bow: 3cm x 25cm
Bow knot: 1.5cm x 8cm





Step1: 
Use any piece of paper to decide the on bow size and use it as pattern tracer.
For bow, you need two of 3cm x 25cm
Bow knot one of 1.5cm x 8cm

Trace your pattern on fabric with chalk and decide how much excess fabric you need to stitch. (I left mine with 3/8).





Step 2:
With 2 pieces of 3cm x 25cm, put the front-side face together and use needles to pin together to secure for sewing.





Step 3:
When sewing, have about 5-7cm unstitched so you can flip it inside-out. Leave a mark so you don't accidentally stitch all the way.





Step 4:
After stitching around with a gap in the middle, cut the 4 corners and any excess fabric around it. This will help get cleaner fold when you flip it inside-out.





Step 5:
Flip the bow inside-out.





Step 6:
Use iron to get to get cleaner fold.





Step 7:
Stitch the gap to close.





Step 8:
Optional: Hem across the edge for decoration.





Step 9:
This is how bow will fold in final form. The ends of the bow should align with the loop of the bow.





Step 10:
Stitch across the fold to secure the shape.





Step 11:
The bow knot is folded twice. Use needle to secure the fold and hem the edges on both side.





Step 12:
When two pieces are ready to put together, wrap the knot around the bow and decide how tight you want the knot to wrap around the bow.





Step 13:
I went for looser wrap, just enough to see the bow folds. After that stitch the knot together.





For final finish, you can thread elastic band through the knot and decide how much elastic you need to wrap around the collar.