Open House - Everyone Welcome!

Jokamamo Textiles will be at the Open House (61 Grange Road, Singapore) on Wednesday 9th October from 9am to 4pm

Come in and say hi and check out all the goodies for our little ones!!

See you there

Marianne and Jesse

Baby clothes with ATTITUDE!

After finishing a baby quilt last week, I must have had babies on the brain!  I thought how much fun it would be to tie dye  some baby clothes.

So I bought some "onesies", looked up how to tie dye a heart on the internet, mixed up some dye and off I went:

The colours are a little bright so I might do some with slightly more muted colours.

It will need a baby with real attitude to pull this outfit off!!

Happy Quilting!

Quilting Marathon

Yesterday was a 6 hours quilting marathon to sew a baby quilt for a friend.  The label will go on today and then it is finished.

On Mothers Day (last Sunday)  my darling husband and children bought me two great books.
Skydyes by Mickey Lawler
Traydyeing by Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan

so....earlier this week I also tried my hand at painting some fabrics.

Some of the colours are a little light and I have to watch that my horizon is straight and doesn't follow the curve of my hand!!!

Happy Quilting!!!

A Busy Christmas

The last few days have been very busy.....

Last Wednesday we had a Christmas lunch with the elderly from Chinatown.  We had a yummy lunch of turkey and ham and salads.  My kids came along to help serve and hand out presents.  There were games as well...a form of pass the balloon and when the music stopped whoever was holding the balloon had to come and dance for us.  Boy do these ladies know how to boogey and to Rihanna no less!

Everyone had a wonderful time!  Thank you to Terence and his sponsors for hosting this.

Christmas day was spent at home with our friends Jan and Hilly Boer and my mum in law (she arrived that morning from Holland).  We had a lovely lunch where everyone ate far too much.  My hubby and I had made a pavlova (a traditional NZ Dessert) and it was REALLY Yummy!  Sorry we ate it before I got a chance to take a photo of it!  The kids  opened all the presents after arriving back from the airport and were preoccupied for the rest of the day.  Of course DAD had to help (play) with some of them too.

Today it was time for more work in Chinatown and the ladies were busy finishing up some of the baby quilts that they had been working on. Our quilts seem to be getting brighter and more colourful as we go.

Its great to see how proud they are of their work.  We have a couple of art quilts in progress too so watch this space!  One of the aunties has bought her own sewing  machine now and two of them have been busy making their own bags at home.  They are such a wonderful group of ladies to work with!

Happy new year to everyone and Happy quilting!