Jokamamo Textiles - Hot News!

Jokamamo Textiles will be at the following Christmas fairs.

Artisan UpMarket @ 22 Dempsey Road
15 & 16 November 2013

The American Club Christmas Fair 
26 & 27 November 2013

Raffles Club Christmas Fair
5 & 6 December 2013

Jesse and I have been working hard to produce some cute items for your little ones as well as hand crafted modern quilts, Quilting fabrics, camera straps and beautiful lace ornaments to adorn your tree this Christmas!

All items designed and hand made by us right here in Singapore!

Please mark these dates in your calender and we would love to see you there!

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Shibori Techniques

This week my kids FINALLY went back to school!!!  I love my kids but 10 weeks of school holidays puts a bit of a damper on any kind of creative expression.....Anyway back to it!!!

This week I am trying out some other shibori techniques, I have been watching you tube videos of how the masters do it in Japan.  If only my fingers were that nimble and quick!

Here a 1/4 metre was folded in half then machine sewn with large basting stitches.  The stitches were then pulled tight.

 This is a fat quarter which has been pleated then machine basted.

 This fat quarter was folded in four and hand basting in a wavy pattern.  The stitches were then gathered.  I have attached a chopstick to one side so that the threads wouldn't come undone and it gave me tension to pull the fabric tight. (sadly one of the rows came undone when the thread broke)  Its not a mistake - just a redesign!

With this piece I have marked two inch by two inch dots, add a bead under each dot and secure with thread.  I am sure the Japanese masters could have this finished in a matter of minutes but I have to be patient and it will take me a while.  I do find it relaxing though.

I hope to do some with clamps as well before I do the dyeing next week. I will post the results next week.

This week I also met the sister of one of my quilting friends and she has just been on a course on natural dyeing.  This is something I have been thinking about as I wonder how environmentally friendly the procion dyes are on the environment.  I would love to hear your thoughts about this.....

Happy Quilting!

Dyeing Frenzy!

I have been busy doing more dyeing this week and it's been lot of fun!

Shibori Folding technique

Shibori pole technique

Shibori folding/sewing technique

Shibori pole technique

Shibori pole technique

 These next four pieces are part of a meter that I dyed and then divided into 4.  Isn't it interesting how different they all are?!

Ice Dyed Onesie with police car 9-12 months

Ice dyed Onesie 24-36 months

All these items are available for sale in my etsy shop:

http://www.jokamamotextiles.etsy.com

I have dyed some more of the scarves as well but will post photos of these later
p.s a big thanks to my husband for taking the photos!

Happy Quilting!

My busy Dyeing day! Batik

Today I have a really busy day - dyeing 25+ metres of fabric.

I started with 12 meter lengths in Light Muted Colours

Then 12 meter lengths in Clear bright colours

Then,  it was time to play!  I had been thinking about doing some batik for a while and yesterday I borrowed a large crock pot full of wax from the school art teacher.

With my very hi tech "stamps"

First I used some fabrics that I had marbled a while back and wasn't sure what to do with them. I stamped them with my really hi tech stamps e.g a potatoe and a carrot!

Marbled fabric

Green fabric stamped with potatoes and carrots

The marbled fabric I put into a red dye bath and the green fabric in a dye bath of red and blue.  These are batching and I will wash these out tomorrow.  Can't wait to see how these turn out!

I will have to make some more ice dyes and tie dyes as well as these are selling like hotcakes!

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Happy Quilting!

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

Friends to Dye with! - Ice Dyes

My friend Jesse came over today to do some fabric dyeing:

First we did 12 clear colour fat quarters.  These ones were given lots of "massaging" in the bag so as to get a more even colour and less mottling.

Next we did the "ice" dyeing - I have always loved what quilters in snowy climates could do with snow dyes but as there is no snow in Singapore, ice cubes would have to do:

Fabric on cake rack with ice on top

Sprinkle dye powder on top and wait for ice to melt (it was 38 deg today)

Love the texture on these

Next we did the "shibori" dyeing on the pvc pipe:

Fushia, orange, yellow and black

And lastly some green/black gradiants and a fushia/black piece:

What a great day - we gots lots done and it was great fun but boy was it hot in the kitchen!

I think next time we will close the outside doors and crank the aircon in the lounge up and hope some of the cool wafts into the kitchen.

Happy quilting!