Instructor -
Norliza Samingon (Norli)
This crafter started out with felt as her media. Her
work borders on art as she imitates the art of donuts by making
realistic-looking, yummy donuts out of brown felt.
She stuffs them with polyester filling until firm.
Then she sews various frosting –looking bits onto the ‘donut’. All done with a
sewing needle, some felt and filling and lots imagination. Let your imagination
go wild when ‘baking’ your donuts!
2.
BEADING
– hair band
Instructor :
Eva Ng
Beads can be used is various ways. In this workshop,
Eva will guide participants to make 3-D flowers and attach them on a hairband
for a functional hair accessory.
3. RIBBON EMBROIDERY
Instructor : UmiKalsom
She is well-versed in embroidery and her
website has attracted readers and buyers from all over the world.
Her forte is ribbon embroidery that tries
to realistically capture the essence of a bouquet of flowers
4.
MACRAME
– bracelet
Instructor : Namizam
Trained as a graphic designer, he uses
crafts to expand his creativity. Macrame
is a retro craft, being popular in the 1960s but has been making a comeback in
recent years. It is a series of knots
and is adaptable to make many decorative items such as a bracelet, belt, plant
hanging and even hippie bags.
5.
FREE-STYLE
WEAVING
Instructor : Ziton Ismail
Weaving can be traditional and functional but stretch
the creativity and you get free-style weaving, just for the fun and art of it!
Start with a frame with evenly spaced nails all
around. Next is to choose the string for the warp. Then choose strings you can
weave in and out the warp to form a design of your choice. You can weave in any
direction to create interesting formations.
Ziton is a certified craft trainer.
6.
WIRE
JEWELRY – Herringbone technique
Instructor : Mastura Mustaffa
Mastura honed her skills in wire-jewellery-making
through practice, observation and experimentation. This form of jewellery
making requires twisting lengths of wire in neat, repetitive loops. Then
crystals or beads are added.
7.
SHIBORI
– dyeing your tee-shirt
Instructor : Fatimah Chik
Fatimah Chik is known as a batik artist, but prefers
the term resist artist as she uses various techniques such as shibori, block
stamping in wax in her art pieces. An
early graduate from ITM, she has more than 30 years experience in textile art
and technology. She is currently teaching at MIA.
Shibori is not just a tie and dye technique. It is
more precise work as one of the ways is pleating prior to dyeing, to achieve symmetrical, repeated designs.
8.
LACE-MAKING
- TATTING
Instructor : Jon Yusoff
Tatting is a form of lace work made with knots using
thread that are group together into rings or chains an interspersed with decorative
picots. The way the knots, or double
stitches as there are also known as, are
shaped and joined together create the variety of lace be it edgings, doilies,
snowflakes, medallions and many more.
Tatting has developed from the traditional flat designs
to wearable designs such as jewelry and
ornaments like sun-catchers and balls and other accessories. Tatting has also gone three-dimensional where
many designers have come up with flowers on stalks and character figurines.
Instructor - Rafidah (Fid) Anum
Strips of t-shirt fabric (jersey) can be re-used as
thick ‘yarn’ for finger crochet. You do not need a hook. Just use your fingers!
This is an eco-friendly way to recycle torn or spoiled
t-shirts into other functional items such as rigs, bags, and even chunky
bracelets.
When she is not crocheting or crafting, she is a
scientists dealing with stem cells.
10.
QUILTING
BASICS - PLACEMAT
Instructor – Zarina Zainal Abidin
An ardent crafter, she hand-dyes yarn in multi-colours
for sale on Etsy.com.
She is also a quilter and in this workshop, will be teaching
the basics of quilting. Participants
will learn to properly join & stitch pieces or cloth and batting together
to form a placement.
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