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

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!

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!