My first project using the Nani Iro fabrics is a pleated elastic skirt. It’s my seventh sewing project this year but I am taking a long time to finish it mainly because halfway of making it, I started working again after three months of maternity leave. In between working, cooking, taking care of my baby Inayah, and other things, I can only squeeze some limited time for sewing.
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Welcome 2022! I don’t have a list of significant resolutions this year, just like last year haha. But on sewing/creativity front, I definitely have a few in mind. One of them is of course, sewing plans! At the end of last year, I made a huge (at least for me, it’s huge) fabric purchase from Nekoneko Fabric online store, and they arrived early this year yay!
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Hi all! So my batik fabric hunting in Kelantan did not stop with Kartika Kiara Batik. After that, we went to Wisma Songket Hjh Cik Bidah bt Cik Yin (Cik Bidah for short)…. which turned out to be my favourite of all!
They have a lot of block-printed batik fabrics. Well actually, when I think carefully about it, I would say all of the batik fabrics in the shop are block-printed. I found some hand-painted fabrics, but those are already made into finished products.
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After our trip to Nordin Batik, we went to another batik shop, Kartika Kiara Batik. It’s along Jalan Pantai Cahaya Bulan so if you plan to go to Pantai Cahaya Bulan beach, you can drop by at this shop.
The shop has a lot of batik fabrics: hand-painted crepe silks, hand-painted cottons, hand-painted jacquards, and if I recall correctly, they also have block-printed batik fabrics. They also have a lot of ready-made garments: shirts, baju kurung, jubah.
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For the Chinese New Year break, I came back to my family’s village in Kelantan with one important mission in mind: I wanted to explore batik shops there 😛 . I don’t know why, but I never knew about the existence of batik manufacturers in Kelantan before hahaha. Previously, I often thought of batik arts as being a specialty of Terengganu (another state in Malaysia). It was through one of my Instagram searches that I found out about batiks in Kelantan.
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So from my previous post, I did mentioned about my trip to Fah Num. Right after Fah Num, I went to People Textile, which is just across the street. I have a feeling that this shop has been here for ages, considering how old the building is. The first interesting thing that I noticed: you cannot simply enter the shop… you need to press the bell first and wait for them to open the door for you.
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Hi guys! Today I went to two fabric stores in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and I feel like writing about them here on the blog. Since last year actually I have this idea of blogging about where to buy fabrics and craft supplies during my travels: be them here in my beloved country Malaysia, or in any other countries for that matter. I am reminded by how thankful I am to a lot of bloggers and their posts which helped me to decide where to go in Japan back in August, and informed me a lot of important tips that I wouldn’t get elsewhere. So I figure out that I need to do the same!
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Back in August, my husband and I went to Japan for our honeymoon trip. Obviously I went there with a long list of fabric/craft shops that I wanted to go… and Nomura Tailor Shop was one of the I-must-go-or-I’ll-die shops in my list.
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