FaceBook giveaway

My Dearest Readers

To celebrate Mother’s Day, I am having a giveaway on my FaceBook fan page.

Hop on over to join the fun.

Taking a break

from all those batiks. Sometimes a girl just need to work on other fabric than batiks, with a whole lot of more colours.

I am on a roll of making baby quilts (and lap quilts) to be put up for sale in my online store. All are local cotton and measuring approximately 35 x 45 inches.

If you are interested in any of the quilts, you can email me at zarina.craft@gmail.com.

My first big order

for The Batik Boutique. It consists of lap quilts and baby quilts. I am now quite proficient in machine sewing the bindings.

Table runners – both whole cloth and pieced.

Reusable snack packs. Its my first time sewing with non-fabric material (shower curtains) and Velcro. I adapted this pattern to fit a sandwich made of standard white bread.

And others such as bookmarks, coasters, and embellishing tea towels with what else, batiks.

My first cushion cover

During my first meeting with the owner of The Batik Boutique, she mentioned that her customers are interested in cushion covers. I have never made one (actually two in my school days but mum did the finishing) and I am scared of zippers (sewing zippers).

In addition, Nik of NNC group is joining beautiful small hexagons. To cut the story short, I made a sample by piecing the top with hexagons. Using this tutorial, I find that it is easy to do and I can make more of them.

Note: I was away from home that weekend and did not have a pillow form for photos.

The next time I want to use hexagon, I will make them double the size. Even though I love the process but I doubt I can make a few of these.

The penyu baby quilt

Hello there dear readers!

This may be a start to a long life of crafting (as it never was). Hopefully it will also pays my bills.

If everything goes well, I may continue quilting into the future. I have contacted the owner of The Batik Boutique to offer my service. She mentioned that she has requests for baby quilts but there was no one with the skills.

To start off, she gave me this beautiful batik which is ideal for a baby. In order to show off the penyu (turtles), I cut the pieces for a 5-inch pieces.

The top of the quilt.

This is my first time where I did not hand sew the binding down.

The back is using the same batik as the front.

The label of the boutique.

You can find out more about The Batik Boutique from their website and FaceBook.

Dearest Blog Readers

Life is still uncertain, but I have been ‘cheating’ on you.

I have been actively on FaceBook during my absence to help me get my crafting business going. There are several new local groups that discusses on this.

In addition, I have been posting a bit of my crafting on my new FaceBook page: Zarina Craft. And a bazaar outing.

If you still love me, kindly like my Facebook page so that you won’t miss a thing.

I hope to get back to blogging soon since I miss you all so much.

Love

Zarina

An announcement

I have tried my best to find things to post regularly here. Unfortunately, my life needs some straightening up before I can do that.

So, I am announcing that I will be taking a break from blogging – hopefully just a few months.

Wish me the best and I love you all. Keep me in your thoughts.

And yes, no post should go without photos. Yesterday morning, a group of Malaysian tatters and crafters met up at McDonald. And I was please to find that one of them is one of my blog readers that went back few years back.