Made these beauties for my photobud, Nor Shila Mustapa. Love the striking and bold contrast of the red polkadots on the small flowers handles. Making the resized Cosmo Bag is a challenge of it’s own though. The smaller the bag, the tedious it became. I’d stick to the original size. Hmmm... I’ve said this before. Dejavu. Thank you Shila for supporting my handmade :). I hope you like them :)

More pictures on Baju Raya Arwen #1. I like the colours of buttons that Arwen selected personally :)

Arwen’s Baju Raya #1

Marrying the two things I like, knitting and cute designer cotton. This is Arwen’s baju raya #1. The pattern for the bodice is somewhat my creation. I need to fine-tune the pattern before I upload it for future reference. I love the knitted bodice, don’t you? This is still a WIP. The skirt is only pinned to the bodice. I fell in love with it and couldn’t wait to take a picture and share :)

A Resized Cosmo Bag and A Key Keeper Coin Purse

This is hot from the oven. Or should I say, hot from the sewing machine. I can’t believe I’m working on a snail pace. This bag took me 3 days to complete! Fact #1: Smaller bags are tedious to make. No wonder Amy Butler made this bag as big as she can. This resized version is about 30% reduction from the original size. My original bag is hanging on clothes line so can’t put them side by side. Visually, it looks a lot smaller, although mathematically it’s correct (measurement wise). It looks cute though but for the time being, I’m much more comfortable with the original version. This bag is for a friend. I’m working on the second one, before I can start on my hari raya clothes sewing. In the background you can see the magazine box organizers where I keep all my patterns. This table is next to the window. I wanted to take a quick photo so instead of moving them away, I used them as part of the props.

This is a Key Keeper Coin Purse, one of the designs in the Amy Butler’s book. It looks cute but going back to Fact #1, the tedious level just made this something I will not pursue in the near future.

I edited the picture with some artistic effect called ‘fresco’ in my Photoshop Elements 9.0 to make it interesting. It was rather flat.

 This is another view of the purse. Oh, I almost forgot. It’s already the 4th day of fasting month (Ramadhan) and I would like to wish all my Muslim friends a blessed Ramadhan. Selamat menjalankan ibadah puasa. Semoga semua amalan kita diterima dan diberkatiNya selalu.

Wall of CD Toter

I’m still dabbling with Picasa :) Here’s another Wall: Wall of CD Toter. I might have missed some. I have duplicates of some too in this wall but I did make a lot of them since 2009. 

Wall of Bibs

I'm organizing my pictures and wanted to archive the things I've done since last year. I wanted to make a collage and making it was a lot easier with Picasa. Here's one collage I've created on baby bibs I've made last year.

My Knitted Socks and a Break

I’ve finally casted off these pretty socks this morning and had to get hubby to help with taking the picture after several attempts with the self timer failed miserably.  I love the colour and it feels nice. 

I’m here to announce that I’ll be taking a break from taking orders for the whole fasting month this year. I’ll be doing my own sewing for the family but I’m going to finish all the orders that has been firmed. Learning from last year’s experience, I felt I’m going to take it easy this year. I almost end up not having time to sew my own baju kurung last year, and not to mention the stress of not meeting the deadline. 

Oh, and by the way, Lil Arwen is having it’s first anniversary sale. Sale of fabric would still continue throughout Ramadhan. Do check it out.

Having said that, here’s wishing everybody ‘Eid Mubarak’. Selamat berpuasa from me and my family. Here’s a picture of my son light-painting an anak bulan (crescent) with the help of his daddy.