My Website is UP Giveaway!

Yes Folks!  My new Website is up and running:

Jokamamo Textiles

Here you can find:

 beautiful Hand dyes, Shirbori Dyes, Tie Dyes,Ice Dyes, Distressed, Rusted and Discharged Fabrics

Leave me a message telling me what you think of my site

 and I will send the first 2 people to reply a fat quarter of 

one of these ice dyed fabrics!

A Huge Big Thank you to Seth from Plectrum Communications for all his hard work - It looks great!

p.s There is also a link on the side bar

More fabric Landscapes

Yesterday I found a matt and frame for my landscape picture:

Island Bay Beach, Wellington, New Zealand

These are photos printed onto fabric then machine embroidered

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Today I started on another one - also a scene from New Zealand:

Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand (original pic)

I have started embroidering the snow and am now working on the tussocks in the front of the picture.
 (Check out that BEAUTIFUL BLUE Sky!!!!)

More photos of progress later

I have been looking for something more "Singapore" but its hard to find a picture that doesn't have buildings.  Maybe a nice orchid??

Oh and here are the two traditional  blocks I made for a friends birthday and a friend leaving:

Alisons Birthday Block
(made with my hand dyed fabrics)

Mels Block

Yesterday I also cut up one of my hand dyed fabrics and had a "play".

Not sure if I like this yet........

Happy Quilting!

Tie dyeing

I have still got dye left over from the last couple of days dyeing and so this morning I googled how to do regular tie dyeing.

There are two Kelly green/golden yellow spirals and one fushia/grape spiral.

 And one pleated and folded piece in fushia/grape and golden yellow

The pieces are now washing and I cant wait to show them to you!!!!

Still no success  in finding soda ash,washing soda or sodium carbonate whatever you wish to call it.  I have tried the pool supplies place but they only have 25kg bags.  It seemed a little overkill!

I even went to Mustafa - the shop that has everything.... which it does..... just not washing soda.

Maybe I will just have to go and order it from Dharma.

Happy Quilting!

Loving the Shibori Dyeing!

Yes Folks there is more Shibori dyeing....

Blue fabric with Grape dye

White fabric with grape dye and red/purple dye

Blue fabric with Golden Yellow dye

Green fabric with Golden Yellow dye

 Then it's on to the rusted fabric that was prepared two weeks ago and dyed today....

Fushia, Grape, Kelly Green and Golden Yellow

Fushia, Grape, Kelly Green and Golden Yellow 

Detail of rust on fabric

Fushia, Grape, Kelly Green and Golden Yellow 

Now I just need to find somewhere to buy Soda Ash in Singapore....

Time for some more rusting again.....

Happy Quilting

Shibori Dyeing

After a week long family holiday in beautiful Vietnam, it was great to get back into dyeing some fabrics.  I had been given a plastic pvc pipe from the maintenance man at school and was ready to do some shibori dyeing.  (I think he must have thought I was a little mad asking for pvc pipe and rusty things!)

Wrap fabric around pipe together with  twine and scrunch to the end

Soak in Soda ash then paint on purple dye

Finished orange/purple

Finished white/purple

There is still more purple dye left so today I will be doing another batch.  Absolutely LOVE this technique and the results!

I was delighted at getting a pvc pipe from school and then yesterday I noticed the words on it.....

"Sewer Pipe"  Hmmmm.......

Celebrating Mothers!

With Mothers Day just around the corner, I have been busy making Mothers Day Cards:

All cards available at My Etsy shop:
www.mariannebos.etsy.com

Jam packed day

Today was jam packed with lots of "playing" with fabric and dyes

I made another of the "dogs in sneakers" postcards and also a "party on the beach" postcard:

I also dyed 60 fat quarters but they are still washing so a photo will follow tomorrow!

Time to catch up on the Free Motion Quilting challenge tomorrow!!

Happy Quilting!

Exhibition and Wine evening

Hi everyone,

Here is the info for the exhibition and wine evening on Saturday 25 February at The Loft (1st floor)  in Chinatown.

Here is a map on how to get there:

Please drop me an email if you are coming.

Thanks

Marianne

Woven quilt

Its been a while since I have been doing any sewing as we have been busy looking for a new place to live.
Yesterday and today I worked on a new quilt.  Here is the result:

Woven colour purple/red

detail

 Not quite finished yet......

Yesterday it was great to meet up with the ladies from the ANZA Quilt group again and  on Monday and Tuesday I am doing two classes at the British Club with Dijanne Cevaal.

I am really looking forward to that!

Happy Quilting!

Autumn leaves

I have had some autumn leaf fabric for some time and thought that this would make an interesting card.  I added some skeleton leaves as well. 

Note to self:  remove the fusible web from the backing paper before ironing to leaves (between layers of baking paper) so that  the leaves dont rip when removing the backing paper!

Autumn Leaves Fabric Postcard 4 x 6 inches

I had made some christmas tree tags with little asian dolls and had handwritten "Singapore 2011" on it, but I wasn't happy with my handwriting so these one's were done by printing directly onto the fabric .  I made 3 of each colour.  Much better!

I'm hoping these will sell like hot cakes at the school fair in two weeks time!

Tonight my hubby and I are off to the Affordable Art show which is on this weekend at the F1 Pit building (next to the Singapore Flyer)

One of the ladies from the ANZA Quilt group has some of her art quilts/fiber art in there. I'm  so happy to see Quilt/ Fiber art being recognised as art at last!

The last of the postcards....(I think)

Today was ANZA Quilt Group day and I was thrilled when I arrived that one of the ladies was working on a new quilt with some of my  hand dyed fabrics that she bought from me!

 After quilt group was some time to finish off the (hopefully) last of the fabric postcards that will go in the school fair next week

I even made the newspaper fabric myself!

Last Friday I went and checked out the MAAD (Market of artists and designers ) which is held once a month at the Red Dot Gallery here in Singapore.This is a craft market and has a variety of craft items all made by local artists.  Check out their website! http://www.maad.sg/

Also coming up in Singapore is the Affordable Art Fair from 18-20 November at the F1 Pit Building (by the Singapore Flyer).  I even hear a rumour that they will be having art quilts/fiber art there!

From 24 November to 26 December there is also a quilt show held at the Botonical Gardens and I have entered a couple of quilts.

Happy Quilting!

7 sleeps to go!

It's hard to believe that the British Club Quilt Challenge is only a week away and I still have so many things to do before I have everything ready!

Today I concentrated on landscape cards and managed to do three.  This was a pretty good effort seeing I also went out to buy foam and reupholstered my sons computer chair!

Moonlight

River Mouth

Winterscape

Till next time!

Happy Quilting!

Back in Chinatown

Yesterday I was invited to come and help in Chinatown with the "Aunties" (and 1 uncle) from Granny Quilts (see older posts 2008-9).  They were making art pieces for the Singapore International Foundation.

The finished product

They were given black canvas's and embroidered them with thread and beads. 

It was lovely catching up with them again (I got to practice some of my mandarin)  and after we had finished working we were treated to a "high tea".  (my first high tea).  These aunties are so much fun to work with.

A big thank you to Terence, Richard, the Singapore International Foundation and all those that support these elderly in Chinatown.

Today I am off to the ANZA Quilt group and we are meeting at our new venue at the Hollandse club.  What a great place to meet and the food is great!

Hopefully tomorrow I will get back into the sewing room......

Dyeing (to have cool air)

I havent been able to work in the sewing room as 5 of our airconditioners broke down last week so yesterday seemed like a great day to do the dyeing that I have been meaning to do since July.

I dyed a set of 12 muted dark rainbow colours as well as 12 muted light rainbow colours.  While preparing the light colours they seemed very disappointing but once they had cured and dried the colours were very nice.

Muted colours light & dark

Also overdyed the two fabrics that Gina and I used the bleach pen on.  One we overdyed red and the other yellow.  The colours really came out well.

Discharged fabric overdyed with red

I also tried a shibori technique on a pale yellow fabric that I had dyed a while back but never really liked the colour of.  The 1/2 meter fabric was folded double lengthwise and a seam sewed down one side to make a tube.  It was then pushed onto a tennis ball container scrunching the fabric up and securing with rubberbands. Purple  dye was added and left to dry.

Shibori (not yet washed and ironed)

It was great experimenting with the colours and different techniques.  I definately think I will do the shibori and the discharge again.

The aircon guys have been and we have cool air again!  Yippee!

Christmas is coming!

I heard that there are only 116 sleeps until Christmas so today I spent the day in the sewing room making Christmas postcards as well as a few others.
Here are todays postcards:

Fashion Chic

Postcards from Home

Sanddunes 2

Xmas Trees

Snowflakes
(still needs some "bling"!)

The last card is still a work in progress.  I think it is in need of some "bling" to make it nice and sparkly!

p.s I have also listed some of my cards on the website "Felt" which is a Handcrafting website based in New Zealand.

Check out my shop at:

www.mariannebos.felt.co.nz 

Happy Quilting