My Dream of A New Portable Sewing Machine

Welcome Tuesday, and it's time for Tuesday Tag Along blog hop !
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In my previous post, I mentioned that I don't have any sewing machine at all. It's a disaster to have no sewing machine ^_^ I practically handsew all of my projects, and it's really tiring. But I plan to buy one next month, I hope I can find a great machine at a great bargain. Yup, today I just want to inspire myself by posting this Brother PC-420 picture : (Reading its reviews on many websites, I'm quite sure that this is really worth to buy)

Btw, Is there any suggestion what kind of sewing machine that I need to buy?
There are a lot of singer here, but it's hard to recognize fake singer from the original one. Brother has many fans too, despite its high price for new item. There are many brands from China too, but I guess I shouldn't buy them

A Too Late Monday Favourite 29/6

It's a too late post for my Monday Favourite and guess what? I didn't post about something that I made at all for about a week or so and I'm really sad about it T_T LOL

But the good news (for me) is I'm working on another dress for my girl and planning about a moslem girl dress for Eid complete with hijab for my little darling and a moslem wear (we call it "koko" suit) for my older boy. But they would be hard without a sewing machine (did I mention that I don't have any sewing machine?) My hands are tired for handsew T_T

Finish about that sad story, here are my favourite for this week :
(I try to grab them around the world) so enjoy them :


Patterns from Jane Mosse
You won't see the patterns in her site, unless you are her client. I found them via print&pattern

Home Decorator File from Ktwo

Lentebloem brooch from Little Z Handmade



Set of Postcard, Stickers & Magnet from Pyhai



Diamond-shaped sweater by Fruitful Fusion

Sisterswhoblog Network for Muslim Sisters

From Tiananda's blog, I began to know there is a blog network for muslim sisters all around the world. So I began to join and I'm glad that I have many sisters that share the same interest.
I put the badge on my sidebar. You also can click the banner below to join


It also holds an annual blog competition :

It has 12 categories listed for the 2010 Best Blog Award, here they are :

1. Best Educational Blog
2. Best Fashion Blog
3. Best Food Blog
4. Best General Blog
5. Best Islamic Blog
6. Best Motherhood Blog
7. Best Motivational Blog
8. Best New Blog
9. Best Photo Blog
10. Best Political Blog
11. Best Teen Blog

Please vote & spread the words

Pewarna Tekstil Alami / Natural Dye for Textile

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After talking about natural colour for food, now I'm gonna talking about natural dye for textile. Colouring process by natural dyes consumes more times than synthetic colouring process. It usually takes 30 - 50 soak. Instead of it long process, natural colouring is still the best method to give our fabric a pop of colours. It wastes no hazardous chemicals, unlike the synthetics one. And the best part is, we can use natural waste as a natural dye, for example : mangosteen. Here are some of natural dyes that are used by batik crafters in Indonesia :

Soga Tinggi	Teh	Kayu Tegeran
Secang	Avocado Leaf	Nangka
Mangosteen/Manggis	Mango Leaf	Bixa Orelana
Jambal	Indigo/Nila	Jalawe
Hibiscus	Papaya Leaves	Guava Leaves
Curcuma	Cashew Leaves	Akar Mengkudu

I wish I could give you a tutorial to dye a fabric with natural dye as soon as possible. Now I give you their list with more complete colour results :

No.	Name of the Dye	Biological Name	Colour Results
1	Morinda Roots	Morinda citrifelia	Brown
2	Curcuma	Curcuma domestica	Yellow
3	Guava Leaves	Psidium guajava	Green or reddish
4	Kapok Tree Leaves	Bombax malabaricum	Grey
5	Secang Woods	Caesalpia sappan	Red, Orange
6	Mango seed/leaves	Mangifera casturi	Green
7	Annato Flower seeds	Bixa Orelana	Bright red
8	Soga Jambal Woods	Peltophorum ferruginum	Brownish red
9	Jackfruit Woods	Artocarpus heterophyllus	Yellow
10	Teak Tree Leaves	Tectona grandis	Maroon
11	Indigo leaves	Indigofera tictoria	Blue and black
12	Tea	Tea	Brown
13	Clay	-	Pale Brown
14	Tegeran Woods	Cudraina javanensis	Yellow
15	Mangosteen Rind	Garcinia mangostana	Purple
16	Haricot Bean	Vigna umbellata	Red

I'm on 10marifet.org

I've been featured on a Turkish site : http://www.10marifet.org/

I don't know how they reach me but I would say many thanks for them

It's great to see my bandana on Turkish language :)

Here is my page if you want to see it

Happy Monday everyone !!

Cheers

Citra

Pewarna Alami Untuk Makanan / Food Shades from Nature

• CAROTEN - is name for orange, ex : carrots, papaya,
  

• BIKSIN - for buttery yellow (ex : annato)
  

• CARAMEL, for reddish brown, ex : caramel, brown sugar
  

• CHLOROPHYL, for green
  

• ANTOSIANIN, for red, blue & purple

Event : Pekan Raya Jakarta / Jakarta Fair 2010 (Part 2)

As my promise, here are some photographs from Pekan Raya Jakarta (PRJ) / Jakarta Fair 2010


Dolly in kebaya & batik from Sun-Indo (Doll Manufacturers & Exporter - Hall B3)

Light Craft (Hall B1-B2)

Dayak Crafts (Hall B2)

Another beautiful Dayak craft

Night crowds

Main Stage

Lights are everywhere