Watson Bra for A Teenage Niece

I have loved the look of Cloth Habit‘s Watson bra but hesitant to purchase the pattern. A potential customer loved the look of it but she had found the bra style she wanted sold in a shopping complex. Most likely she does not want me to make one.

Knowing that my 15 year old niece prefer this style, I made one for her. She is a size 32B and it fit her perfectly.

For the first bra, I used Spotlight cotton jersey knit.

Since I finally got the blades for the rotary cutter, I now use the cutter for cutting all the pieces.

This is my second bra for her. I got this fabric from an online seller, Ulatkain.

The stopping block to make more for her is that she wants anything with black print. And my stash only have these two prints that meet her requirement.

Time to go shopping.

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Bramaking – my new venture

Late 2017, a local online lingerie shop owner approached me to make custom bralette. A lot of Googling was made and I saw that it was ‘easy’ to make one. In addition, here in Malaysia it is not common to sew our own brassieres.

After purchasing the most basic Craftsy online classes, patterns, and the hardware required I had a trial class on Dec 23 at Spotlight Mytown. 

After tweaking the approach and methods to conduct the classes, a second class was held at the same venue yesterday. It was successful. Here are some of the handiwork of the students. 

In addition, I have received a few queries for custom made brassieres. Some are from those who are well endowed and have difficulty finding the right size here. A few came during the workshop to try out the forms I have made in their sizes.

Contact me (zarina.craft@gmail.com) for more information on

• upcoming bra making workshops
• online bra making workshops
• requesting for custom order brassieres.

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Selangor International Expo 2016

I have been blessed to be invited to share a booth for the upcoming Selangor Expo 2016. Among the products that I will be bringing are my baby quilt, my own published quilting book, telekung or prayergown, and songket gift products.

These make ideal gifts or souvenirs from Malaysian songkets. The products I’ll be bringing are bookmarks, covered notebook, and stuffed elephant.

My quilting book which was published last year, showcasing The Batik Boutique’s Malaysian batiks.

And finally, my telekung or prayer gown that has the quilted look that I love so much. It falls just above the knees and the lining is covering the chest area.

If you are interested to carry my products, please come and meet me there. WA me at 60162222004 for appointments or where to find me.

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Update of basic baby quilt classes

I have been fortunate to have several places to run my patchwork classes beside the Spotlight branches.

The venues include Shah Alam, Bandar Baru Bangi, and Seri Kembangan. Hopefully, I am able to reach out to a wider audience.

However, outside of Klang Valley the only hope is online classes. I will send the materials via registered mail. The classes will be conducted via email zarina.craft at gmail dot com (remove the spaces, replace at with @ and the word dot with .), FaceBook PM (Zarina Craft) or Whatsapps (+60 16 222 2004). There will be ample photos and short videos on the steps.

Below are posters for the upcoming classes in October and November 2016. Hope to see you all.

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Quilting class in May 2016

Don’t miss out on this!!

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Custom Order: Handkerchief with Simple Embroidery

This request was made for a customer that I was referred to.​ She wanted ten handkerchieves for her husband with his initials, JR. I recommended to add the edging all around.

The simple embroidery was done using a variegated #30 weight Sulky thread.

I am not keen on marking fabric with any erasable marker, no matter how trusted the brand is. Especially on these white handkerchieves.

Meet my favourite sewing buddy, the masking tape. For all the ten pieces, I used only four long strips the length of the handkerchief. 

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Batik Greeting Cards

There are many bloggers who give good posts on color. How the choice of color combinations work for your product. My favourite has removed her posts for her book.

And I was fortunate to attend a fiber course with this topic by ACG a few years ago.

Finally, I am able to peruse this knowledge to my heart content in this custom order for The Batik Boutique. For more information on these batik greeting cards, please contact The Batik Boutique directly.

 

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New product for Zarina Craft – cushion covers!

After making a pair for The Batik Boutique, I decided to make my own.

This pieced cover is 18″ square.

These others covers are 16″ square. All of these comes in pairs. You have an option to purchase with or without the cushion inserts.

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Snack packs – getting quite popular

with The Batik Boutique.

I started using Velcro but it was not working. There were some tearing of the inner vinyl side.

So now, we are using zippers … after facing my fears of zippers head on. After over 100 snack packs made with zippers, we are on a roll.

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NNC’s hexagon exchange

For the past few years, I have limited myself to the number of exchanges that has been organised by the great NEEDLESnCRAFT, NNC group. However, due to some prompting I have joined the latest  exchange.

The exchange requires us to make two (2) flowers out of seven (7) hexagon petals. Some of the participants have stated how they want the flowers to be.

It is nothing new for me. I have made a queen size quilt out of hexagons for my parents eons ago (it is now very thin since I used polyester batting).

I have fabric for the petals so I just pull out from my stash or leftover from my previous projects.

There are also a lot of paper hexagon templates I have made for a mobile project. That will have to be put at the back burner since my hands do ache if I do too much hand crafting.

These blue prints (as requested by my partner) are from previous quilts.

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