This was written by Ute for nani IRO month. I’m so excited that Ute is visiting here today! She often sews with nani IRO and she really knows how to highlight the beauty of the prints. Please visit her on instagram or flickr to see more of her gorgeous handmade garments and beautiful nature shots.

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Thank you so much Frances, for inviting me to join in with nani IRO month!

To be honest, ever since discovering nani IRO – and Miss Matatabi (it was through An´s wonderful blog!), quite a few months have been nani IRO month for me! One of my first sewing projects was a dress from Naomi Ito´s pattern book in Peaceful Cooing.

I almost always cut into my nani IRO fabric immediately, as I usually know what I want to make with it. And when Frances generously offered that I could sew whatever I wished with one of the prints from the new collection, I knew I wanted to use Clear Heart for a Tessuti Tokyo Jacket. The simple cut with the magyar sleeves doesn´t interrupt the bold brush strokes of this print and I am especially in love with the back of the jacket.

I paired the double gauze with khaki green linen, which corresponds well with the print and I made matching linen pants from another Tessuti pattern, the Suzy Pant. Together it looks nice and dressy but I will also wear the jacket more casually with jeans.

I sewed the jacket together at one of my favorite places, the Uckermark, a region in Germany about two hours away from Berlin, where a dear friend of mine has a little holiday cottage. The village where the house is located is called “Herzfelde”, which could be translated as “Heartfield”. What better place to sew a fabric named Clear Heart? The rapeseed was in full bloom that weekend and the weather… capricious… It was close to raining when I took these pictures. Quite dramatic and I had to be very quick!

Still, bringing together my favorite fabric and my favorite place brought me a lot of joy.

“Let’s wander slowly through the fields, Slowly slowly through the fields, I touch the leaves that touch the sky, Just you and I through fields of joy, All trouble slowly fades away, Slowly slowly fades away…..”

(Lenny Kravitz, Fields Of Joy)

Beautiful fabric can do that to you, and nani IRO does that for me every time.

I hope I did this special print justice! I am so happy I was given the opportunity to join so many wonderful and talented seamstresses to declare my love for nani IRO and the artist behind it.

Thank you, Naomi Ito, for creating wearable art!

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Thank you so much, Ute!

We’ll be back again tomorrow to continue the nani IRO sewing goodness. Have you entered the giveaway yet? It’s a good one! 🙂 #ilovenaniiro