Sydney Craft and Quilt Show: Mariko Ikeda is coming from Japan

Hi everyone,

We are very excited about upcoming Craft and Quilt Fair in Sydney, from 22nd -26th of June at Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour.
This year, our stand is located in I42, apparently closer to the entrance.
We hope that will make everyone's life easier find our stands easily among a lot of stands..

We are looking forward to seeing many enthusiastic quilters and craft artists in Sydney.

Updated news: Mariko Ikeda is visiting again from Japan for the show!!!
She is very excited to see you all again. She will visit to Australia only for the show!

Mariko is going to join us and teach in our Craft Circle Workshop!!
Starting from 11:30 every day at Craft Circle 4!!



We make this little Japanese Kimono Wallet. Mariko is going to teach how to make this lovely wallet within an hour!! Yes you can do it. Book at our stand I42 as quick as possible!

Very nifty Japanese sprint clip is used for this wallet. The below is how to open this wallet.

Learn how to use this nifty clip at our workshop!


In our last Melbourne and Perth shows, the workshop was booked out within 10 minutes sometimes (!!!).
That makes us really happy but we are not taking bookings in advance (only taking a booking for the day) so please come early on the day, straight to our stand and book!

Also, our popular Tatami-Heri bags just arrived from Japan and ready to go for the show.







As a award winner (best exhibitor award) at Perth Craft and Quilt show, we always strive to do our best in Sydney show. Please come and visit our stand to see our best presentation and service.




See you in one week!!

Patchwork Mariko

Tatami-heri bags are out of stocks! Please contact us if you would like to order.

Probably some of our customers might have realised this but

Tatami-heri bag has been very popular and out of stocks at the moment.

It has been very popular at the shows (thank you) and therefore we are always out of stocks for the products. However, they are on the way and will become available very soon.

Please order through "contact us" button on the website if you would like to order.

Our advice is, as soon as you find them on the show, please buy them right there to avaid a dissapointment.

There are more for Craft and Sydney Show coming up next month.

Happy quilting

Mariko

Perth Craft and Quilt Show report: We won a prize for the best exhibitor!

Hi. Everyone,

First of all, Mariko thanks to everyone who visited to our stand at Craft and Quilt fair Perth!

The weather was great except for the first couple of days (apparently it did not rain since mid March).

We enjoyed our first visit in Perth. People are very kind and welcoming in Perth!

By the way, we won a prize from Expertise events for the best small stands in the show!!

Apprently the qriteria was all atomosphere in the stand (including display, customer services and of course, happy energy in the stand).

We are very honoured. Thank you Expertise events and people who chose Mariko as No 1 stand at Perth Show!

Happy quilting

Mariko

Craft Circle at Perth: Let's make this traiditional Japanese quilted wallet with us!

We are very excited to come to Perth.

Patchwork Mariko Japan at Craft and Quilt Fair Perth. Booth number E19.
The show will be held 18th-22th May at Perth Convention Exhibition center.

Our new products for that show: Naomi Stylish Bag!!!

This bag has been very popular in last couple of our shows.
This bag is big: H37 x L37x W20cm

Using 22 different patterns of Naomi squares, this bag is very colourful and appealing to a lot of quilters in Australia!

The kit and pattern will be available at E19 at Craft and Quilt fair Perth.







We will do 50 mins workshop to make this Japanese quilted wallet.
Please see Craft circle page at Craft and quilt fair website for more details.
Class starts from 12pm, at Craft Circle 1.
Book at our stand E19 on that day.
Note: the class is normally very popular and often becomes full within 5 mins.
Please come to our stand to avoid your disappointment!

The main focus on this workshop is how to use this nifty spring clip to make something creative.
You can start making a lot of nice little pouch and bags using this clip.


The clips we sell are soft type. The dimension is 1.2x 12cm.
We recommend this clip especially because this is soft-type. Very easy to open with one-hand.
You can see the difference once you come and visit our stand and use this clip.

Looking forward to seeing you at all in Perth!

Dai
Patchwork Mariko Japan

Meet Mariko: come to our Make and Take workshop!

Mariko is coming to Melbourne to run a make and take workshop at AQC 2011 all the way from Japan!
Mariko is very excited to meet you all and see you at the classroom.
Make and take Workshop: Japanese Traditional Wallet


AQC (Australasian Quilt Convention)
Time: 11:00 AM for 50 mins
Lecturers: Mariko Ikeda and Daisuke Ikeda, Patchwork Mariko, Japan
Kit Cost $20.
Book at Stand 129
Venue: Make and take room 1




We will teach you how to make this little Japanese wallet. This style used to be make-up pouch in traditional Japan.

The main focus for this class will be how to use the nifty spring clip







Booking is essential. Come to our stand 129 to secure your seats.

Due to the great popularity, we run out of the seats within 10-15mins last year.
Please be quick to avoid the disappointment.



Mariko is looking forward to seeing you all.

Mariko

New bags: Mariko's new released bags: available at AQC!!

We all love something new, don't we?? Are you ready for our brand new bags coming along???

Kits and patterns for these bags will be available at AQC for the first time.
These will be available at Mariko's online shop after AQC.

No 1: Agari bag!!

"Agari" means "ascending" as in "ascending stairs".
Because this bag composes a lot of diagonal sewn strips, forming "ascending stairs"

You can make this bag from our antique silk pack.
We will have more colours to choose at AQC. Be quick though as these are limited resources.
Plus, it is very difficult to find pure antique Kimono silks in Japan!

Patterns and kits will be available at stand 129 at AQC.


No 2: Laminated Tote bag.




This bag is made from our new released laminated fabrics. Newest released Naomi fabrics were laminated! Now it is perfect for tote bags, raincoat and other bags which require a bit of duration and strength.

If you want to know more detail, please see here.

The fabric is available for 50x 110cm strip, which is big enough to make this bag. Free patterns for this bag will be given away to everyone who purchased this strip.


No3 : Liberty beads bag (green)



This is our newest design of Liberty Beads Bags.
Now the handles are black. It will give you some new impression of this bag.

By the way, the silver beaded handles will be no longer available.
We still have some stocks of Liberty beads bags (silver) but once the kits sell out, we will have no more silver beaded handles and therefore no more silver Liberty beads bags.



No4, Tatami-heri bags








Tatami-heri is the strong long cloths used to form the edge of Tatami mattress (woven grass mattress in Japan).

This bag is made from this strong cloths. Just sew the strips down using sewing machine and you can make this durable, light and beautiful bags within a couple of hours!!!

Tatami-heri cloth is available at our Mariko's webshop and our stand (129) at AQC.

Mariko

Save Fukushima: Mariko will donate to the earthquake victims in Japan

Hi everyone,

Thank you very much for sending us many heartful letters to us with regards to the recent terrible earthquake happened in north Japan.

The whole earthquake things have been quite shocking to us. We realised that now it is time for all Japanese citizens to stand up and corporate each other to get through this hardship.

As our main shop of Mariko is located in south Japan (Kumamoto), it was not physically damaged by earthquake. However, the earthquake has been giving some negative impact on Japanese economy and tradings. Some of the antique fabrics we are selling might be difficult to stock in future.

Earthquakes are still having enormous impact on peoples' life in North Japan. We have been thinking of the victims and we would like to contribute to the community up there, wishing to help them to rebuild their life as soon as possible.

Patchwork Mariko decided to donate 5% of sales of AQC to the recent earthquake victims in north Japan through Japanese Red Cross.

Please come and visit our stand at AQC and we could pray for Japan together.



Thank you.

Patchwork Mariko Japan