Thailand Great Quilt Festival 2014

Quilt Show in Bangkok
Workshops
Sewing and quilting products

July 30th – Aug 3rd, 2014
Fashion Hall & Fashion Gallery 1st floor
Lifestyle Hall 2nd floor

at Siam Paragon mall

Don’t miss The Asian Showcase, the biggest quilt event in Thailand. It’s a wonderful opportunity to meet world famous quilters and see their latest quilts:

• Shizuko Kuroha
• Yoko Saito
• Noriko Nozawa
• Akano Sakamoto
• Yonoko Maruya

Fabulous winning quilts from the Soul Siam Quilt Contest will be on display. View the quilt show then shop for imported fabric and accessories at the Market Zone. Look for craft kits, quilt fabric, and quilting equipment and accessories from Thailand and Japan. Also good deals on Elna and Janome sewing machines. Sign up for workshops featuring the latest quilting techniques.

See you at Siam Paragon – the mall is open from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm.

Janome Thailand

Sewing Lovers’ Club Facebook

Siam Paragon Shopping Mall

Pretty Quilt Shop

“Pretty Quilt” is the first quilt shop in the expat community of Nichada Thani, a suburb north of Bangkok. Nicole Park, one of our local quilters, owns this creative and fun shop. There are fabrics from Korea, Japan and Indonesia, kits, fat quarters, thread and cotton batting (240 baht per yard, 100 cm wide). The store is located on the 2nd floor of Oasis shopping center, next to the entrance for the Nichada Thani neighborhood on Samakee Road in Nonthaburi. It’s about a 30 minute drive from downtown.
Open Monday through Friday from 09:00 to 18:00
Saturday 9:00 – 16:00
closed Sundays and the first Saturday of the month
There are two quilting teachers and you can take classes in hand quilting. For 2500 baht, you get lessons once a week and you provide the fabric and accessories. You will get homework and once a week you can go in and learn to hand quilt.
They have Kaffe Fassett fabric (600 baht per yard, a small selection), homespun fabric, and quilting and bag accessories.

Doris, Bonnie, Nicole and Linda at Pretty Quilt

quilt classes are available

black and white assorted prints

Kaffe Fassett fabric and more

Doris found a cute pattern for a doll

Pretty Quilt shop at Oasis

Nicole the owner

Maison Blanche

No longer open.

Maison Blanche –  closed.

Maison Blanche is a cute new quilt shop located in Pakkred, Nonthaburi, Thailand

We went to the house warming party “MAISON BLANCHE” on 24 January 2009 at Sports City Lobby

knowledgeable staff

Fat quarters in a range of solids and prints

Chef Sainisa from Lenotre

 

Rosie Chan teaches in Bangkok

Hobby Club, 4th Floor Siam Paragon, sometimes has quilt classes.
Rosie Chan taught a quilting class here in Bangkok on Monday October 27, 2008 at Siam Paragon’s Passage Zone. If you are interested in sewing and crafts, the Passage Zone is located on the 4th floor of Paragon. You can go there to buy supplies and learn about knitting, sewing and other crafts. The class here was sponsored by Bernina. There were nine students and we each had a sewing machine, either our own or one supplied by Bernina. Rosie taught us to make four quilt blocks. She is a great teacher. I highly recommend her classes. The Bernina shop/quilt shop where Rosie works is located in Singapore:

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First we learned to piece curves in a new way. We used folded fabric pieces which we sewed into the seam line of a pieced unit or block. Then we turned the bias edge of the folded square back and stitched it down. A curve appears! There is a book with patterns like this called Peeled-back Patchwork Curves Without Piecing

And then on to a One Square Cathedral Window block. Cut a square of fabric 8 inches by 8 inches. This will fold down to a smaller square measuring 4 1/2 inches by 4 1/2 inches, which includes the seam allowances of 1/2 inch (not the usual quilters seam allowance of 1/4 inch). The finished size of the block is 3 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches.

Rosie Chan teaches quilting

1) With right side up, mark on each side 1/2 inch from the left hand edge B, and also the mid-point A.

2) Bring point A over to lie on point B, keeping the edges of the fabric level. Pin the edges and the left hand pleat.

3) Repeat this on each side of the fabric. Keep the center area puffed up as you pin each side.

4) Bring point A over to lie on point B.

5) Bring point A over to lie on point B.

6) Carefully stroke the center area, turning it around while you stroke until a square appears in the center. Stitch down the four corners of the center square with a few stitches through all layers.

7) Remove the pins. Fold back each pleat of fabric and machine stitch through all layers. The machine stitching should fall within the 1/2 inch seam allowance. Cut a piece of fabric 2 1/4 inches by 2 1/4 inches.

8) Pin 2 1/4 inch square onto the center square of the folded block and trim the 2 1/4 inch square so there is about 1/8 inch of the folded block showing on all sides.

9) Roll down the folded edges and stitch them down to make a curve.

10) You can use a thread that matches, or a contrasting one. Here I used metallic silver thread.

11) Start at one corner by pinching the two edges together and tacking them down through all layers.

12) It’s 3-D!

When joining one block to another, stitch a 1/2 inch seam and match the corners of the blocks carefully.

The table runner pattern comes from Free Foldy Stuff.