A Girl's Handbag

Mrs. K and family have been our regular customers. They just loved to have different bags and totes made with matching coin purses. This handbag here is a special order for her grand daughter. The girl picked the body fabric. It was a bit tough to decide on the fabrics for the applique but after going through our statsh, we settled with this combination.



The inside view - pink checks lining with 1 zippered pocket and 2 simple pockets.

The side view - two separate body bags joined together - a design which the girl chose herself. Not bad for a 7 year old!

Cushion Covers for A Friend's MIL

A friend who now lives in Oslo is back in Malaysia for the holidays. She is married to a Norwegian. After 2.5 years there, she can now speak Norwegian fluently. She loves patchwork and wanted to get her MIL a patchwork gift. She came over to the shop and said that she did not want something bulky to bring back to Oslo. So I suggested that a cushion cover would be practical and nice. She asked me to make two pieces in green - her MIL's favourite colour. Here they are (50cm x 50cm).




I hope her MIL likes the covers.

Quilts for Two Little Princess

These two quilts are for two little princess who lived in Norway! Their mommy, who is an old colleague, is in town for the fasting month and hari raya celebration. Before she return, we sort of exchange views on the designs of the quilts she wants me to make for her two pricess. And finally we decided on a pattern for both quilts. By the time she is back in KL in end July, me and my team have made 50% progress on both quilts. The centre pieces were ready but I needed her to sort of approve the borders that I had selected for both. Since the centre piece is already busy, we decided to pick a single fabric with small flowers, instead of a patchwork border.


Here are the quilts - Hannah is the elder sister.





And here is Lynnea's - the baby sister.


Both quilts were assembled using double layers of cotton batting and flannel as the backing. They were thick, quilting was a bit harder (esp. the border, using FMQ). They are really warm and we hope that the quilts will keep the two little princess warm in their home.

I will be seeing them this weekend. Hope to be able to get them to post with the quilt.

Pillow Covers for Tihani

Hello again. Today's post is about pillow covers (again). Well, one of my customers who was expecting came to the shop with her elder sister (since she is about to deliver anytime, someone needs to be with her in case of emergency!). Her sister ended up requesting us to make four pillow cases for her little princess, Hani. She chose the borders and the background fabrics. The rest, she said, I leave them to you to decide.

So we matched the applique fabrics against the borders. We used different fonts for the name as she wanted. And here they are. Three of the four were machine quilted (FMQ using different patterns). The last one was hand quilted.

We will be conducting classes on free motion quilting soon. Please get in touch with us for the details. Trust me, if i can do it, you also can do it. Now Everyone Can FMQ!

Quilts for Two Sisters

Pn. I first requested me to make 3 cushion covers for Mother's Day.

Then later she wanted me to make two quilts for both her daughters. I love applique very much especially hand applique. So for Pn. I's two daughters, I proposed that we make 2 similar quilts for the girls. The applique motifs and the designs are exactly the same except the size for baby sister Afifah is slightly smaller.

Pink and purple were chosen as the main colours. One quilt was machine appliqued, the other was hand appliqued. We combined both hand and machine quilting for both quilts.

It was really fun to see how the quilts developed as we appliqued the motifs and later quilted the quilts.


A close up of one of the blocks - hand appliqued and hand quilted.


These are the matching cushions for the quilts using the same colour scheme.

Afifah's quilt - hand appliqued and hand quilted blocks, free motion quilting for the border.

And here is Akilah's quilt - machine appliqued, hand quilted blocks and free motion quilting for the border as well.

The hand quilting of the blocks were really slow - however, my team and I managed to complete them beautifully, finally. Pn. I was very happy, so do we. It was the first time that we created something big (quilt) which are almost 100% identical.

It was a priceless experience. Thank you Pn. I for your support and trust.

Cushion Covers for Dr. Alia

It's cushion covers again! These three lovely covers are requested by Dr. Alia. They will be decorating her office in Putrajaya. All three are hand appliqued and hand quilted. Fabrics are selected based on her favourite colour scheme. Thank you so much Dr. Alia.

Alphabets Cushion Cover

It's school holiday again! And it's time for some of us to take a break and go for a holiday. My friend, Mrs. D flew off to Melbourne last night, visiting her sisters. She would normally buy some gifts for her sisters' mother-in-laws. This time, she decided to come up with something personal. So I sketched to her this 14 inches cushion cover. We then chose the colours for each cover and the design.

and finally, these two covers were completed, machine and hand applique.


Enjoy the gift Ms. M and Ms. N. See you in two weeks time Mrs. D.