gift for my princess...

well...my little princess Zahra gonna celebrate her 1st, birthday this coming May...just two days before my love hubby's birthday...i decided to make her another quilt...actually i make this quilt months ago just after i finish making the red quilt for my Adik's friend baby quilt...

i decided to make Zahra the same pattern..but in blue....for all you know...the quilt was given to Zahra already...just can't wait for her birthday...hehehe !!

lesson I ... purple patchwork bag

firstly...let me express my honour and greatful feelings to those that put an interest in learning how to make this bag....thank you all

CUT FABRICS

- 3 1/2 in. squares ( 32 pieces)
- 3 1/2 x 12 1/2 in rectangle ( base - 1 piece )
- 12 1/2 x 27 1/2in. ( lining )
- 3 x 28in. ( binding )

ASSEMBLE BAG

1 - sew together all the squares and join to the base...to make 12 1/2 x 27 1/2
rectangle..(shown diagram)...
- do the basting and quilt as desire
- once finished..trim edges

2 - fold the bag rectangle in half on seam line, sew together sides edges
- repeat step on lining

3 - to shape flat bottom for bag...at one corner match bottom seam line to side seam line, creating a flattened triangle...sew on drawline 3in..trim excess fabric (shown diagram)

- repeat step on remaining corners and lining

ADD HANDLES

- center the bag and mark
- pin ends of one handle to one side of the bag body, placing each end 1 1/2in from top edge
- place handles 2 1/2in. from marked centering point...(shown diagram)
- sew second handle to the other side to complete bag

ADD LINING

- insert bag lining into the outer bag..wrong sides together..
- sew both piece together
- lastly sew binding around top edge ..and hand-stitch the inside folded binding

....walla...the bag is done....!!!

p/s : really hope that my instructions are easy enough to follow....please try and happy sewing

down memory lane...

wedding day 19th.march 1989.......20years ago...

i'm happy to share..the greatest moments of my life...i'll celebrating my 20th.anniversary tomorrow..19th.March...may it lasts forever....besides all the tears and sorrow ..i do have a Great and Wonderful life...thank you , sayang.. happy anniversary...!

do mind me..i don't really write and don't know how to...but really feel like writing today...just feel like sharing the moments of my life with all of you out there....

i have known my love hubby...years before we got married...we were actually course-mate..(ITM at that time..)...i fell in love with my course-mate...we started dating towards the end of our studies...and i fell in love with him since..and everyday of my life!...hard to describe 'him' but whenever i look at my boys...there's him inside of each of them....especially his smiles...all my boys have his smiles...

we got married in a very simple ceremony... we were still studying at that time...preparing ourselves before we went to Japan..(Look East Policy programme...thumbs up to Tun Mahathir for such a brilliant ideas)....consist of 2 parts...6 months in Malaysia to learn Japanese language and 6 months in Japan for on-job training...

we came back in nov 89...and i was a pregnant lady...5 months...yup! Aliff was made in Japan....i thanked Allah for giving me... a mild morning sickness...i even climbed Mount Fuji during my first month....of course he didn't know..sshhhh!..did told him....when we reached down....or else..i'm sure he will stop me from climbing...!

when i was there..i ate raw fish ..'daaaa..like i have a choice'.... and fruits everyday...i love apples and pineapples....everytime i passed the fruit stall...and believe me... the smells just like Famous Amos....just can't help it...the pineapples were soooooooo sweet and juicy...as a result for consuming alot of apples and pineapples...Aliff has a beautiful skin...no skin problems at all...
when he was 15...he started to worry...friends start calling him name just because he got nice skin and no pimples....but now he's 19...he is glad that finally got pimples..!!!

"..moral of the story.....eat alot of fruits during pregnancy..ok ladies..!!!"

well....i quit working in 1995..when i have the third son Azeem...life was hectic at that time...travelled from Klang to KL everyday...after sending me to the bus stop..he will travel back to Banting....sending my boys to his parents' house...every working day...6 am from home and reached home after 8 pm.....purghhh it was tiring!!!!

i do have maid before but decided to send them home...having a good maid is a bonus but surrounding will spoil them.....when they start demanding and show faces...send them home...

being a fulltime housewife was not an easy task...i was lost at first...then as time goes by..everything starts falling into a right place....then i started .....quilting, patchwork, smocking, making boxes and so on and on....until today.....

my special thanks to my love hubby for supporting me all the way...to MakOnem (my sifu)
for giving me a chance and believing in me...eventho' she knew that i've never hold a needle before....sometime i wonder...why she always has a confidence in me....to Aunty Ani for bringing back the patchwork fever from US...she went for classes there....and for all we know...we have a small group of quilters......A.Ani, A.Bardot, A.Noy, my two sister in-laws Liza and Dona, cousin Ila..(prof. to be), Yan, Hajarul and Datin Azlin, a friend Linda and last but not least..my mother in-law (finishing her hand-quilting..queen size xegon quilt) and no to forget my neighbouring friends..Oli Tuang..(N.Zealander), Fatimah..(dr. to be), Puspa..(to bad she shifted to Puchong), Shiela and Zayana..(Aliff's friend..)... well ladies....thank you for the great moments that we have and still sharing.....

and to all uncles..especially to Uncle Om..who always said..."aida..u took a wrong course.."..i take it as a compliment .. thanks....i'm proud to tell...Uncle Om was one of the interior designer that involved and designed the royal rooms' renovations...in Istana Negara..( Almarhum Sultan of Selangor as Agung)

and my sons Aliff,Aiqal,Azeem & Adam for being a great supporters..all the way boys!!!

and to my sisters and sister in-law (Long, Ngah, De-bea, Adik, Kak Kay) my brothers, nephews ,nieces and my lil'princess Zahra...thank you so very much...for the surpports and always being there for me....love u all..!

and now i have all of u ..my bloggers friend...million of thanks for sharing..! i'm praying ...may all of us... have a wonderful..beautiful..great life ahead of us..

shopping spree...continuation...

well...let me continue my shopping spree stories....actually these are the reasons why my love hubby being dragged to Jln TAR last sat...my sister in-law the one that staying in Rompin gave a BIG project to do...she wants me to do bag set (+ mini praying mat & yasin pouch)...as a gifts to her fellow friends (60sets)...so i decided to make her the bag from japanese cottons..american cottons are too expensive...purghh...hope i'll be able to complete my task...by dateline!!


the stacks of fabric.....25meters ...

the bags only...will post the complete set..later....

..the male model.....??

and...this is what happen when i asked my son to model the bag for me...hahahahaha...i don't really expect him to come out this way...but he really makes my day...my love hubby and me have a good laughs...so beware gals ..if u ask a male model to model your bag..this might happen to you too....!!!!

shopping spree...

well...first of all...let me thank my love hubby for allocating a day for me to go for...shopping spree...actually...i have few projects that require me to get some...

...firstly..a friend of mine from singapore called up and asked me to make her..a baby quilt..a pink baby quilt????well...i don't really go for sweet pink ..but she insisted that the quilt should be all pink...so where else??? go to SS19 lah...it took me quite sometimes to make my choice... and i decided on these fabrics.....from block to backing all in pink..

...pink....pink....

secondly...i promised my son Azeem that i'm gonna make him some bag..no no not for him ...
he has been selling my bags to his friends...for his extra pocketmoney ... businessman in making...hehehe
i don't really get i want but have to settle with these.....



actually i have few other fabrics which unable to show....kamera battery habis lah pulak...oops sorry.....

a small gift ...

when i was asked by my sister Adik to make a quilt for her colleague...baby girl...there's nothing else i love best except sunbonnet sue..but... ideas keep on changing and changing... until i don't really know how many times i keep on changing my mind...finally i decided to do this pattern and stick to it...sugar and spice quilt (APQ magazine)...actually the pattern consist of a boy and a girl...but since i'm making this quilt for a girl.....so i choose one...a girl..!

i was lucky Adik wants a baby cot size quilt..! the quilt was finished right on time...it was given to the mother a day before she went on maternity leave....and the new born baby arrived 3days later..!! i'm glad that the quilt finished right on time..

my princess...

i came from a big family..with seven of us (37 members) just imagine how havoc the situations were when all of us get-together...and now let me introduce the latest edition to family...

on 14th.may 2008...Daania Zahra our little princess was born...well it was really the greatest news...after 8years (my youngest son Adam) we didn't receive any delivery from stork !!!
...our little Zahra was named after my mother... Zaharah

i got new title now...Zahra will be calling me "nek mbah"...wonder why and how my sisters got that???? well...my love hubby is part javanese ...so in order to keep it in the family they decided to add "mbah" to my title....so now we were known as tok mbah and nek mbah....it sound catchy...isn't it?? well...with six of us...i think Zahra gonna have a hard times to remember all the names...poor Zahra...! but and as for me...no matter what Zahra gonna call me....i'm glad and proud of it..!

p/s ...she is wearing the smocking dress (posted earlier)

weekend project - patchwork "japanese" bag IV

i guess..i'm gonna talk about another weekend project...(the last one..for now!)...with the japanese quilt book...which was brought back by my love hubby from Japan... as a reference...we started the project...this time we decided with blue tones... i love blue.!!

the bag pattern consist of 2 sections...the top part were 2 x 2 in.square...which were placed slanting and the bottom part was a 12 x 5in rectangular... which was cut according to the pattern given...this measurement were changed from centimetre into inches....

the fun part of making this bag was...putting the squares...since that we are making two bags at a time...(64 squares for one bag)... to keep all the squares in place from blown away...we pinned it onto 4 cushions ..one for each side..!!! with pins all over the room ..we keep on
shouting everytime they try to sit on it...lucky there's no butt got the pins..purghh!! but i'm glad we managed to finish the bags on one weekend...












...the book... the pattern....