Saturday 24 March 2012

AQC 2012: Mariko Ikeda will visit us again! New workshop!!

Patchwork Mariko is very excited to announce our largest event (and first) in 2011
Australasian Quilt Convention (AQC) 2012
Date: 12/04-15/04, 10:00-1630
Venue: Royal exhibition building, Carlton Gardens
Admissions: $16 for adults
Booth: 129

Mariko Ikeda visits AQC as our guest lecturer for our new workshop!!
Hime (princess) wallet!
Date and time: Daily, 12:00-13:00
Cost: $25


Some of our enthusiastic customers might have seen them already on our
website. These wallets have been already so popular and we decided to run our workshops to teach you to make this gorgeous wallet!

Instruction is easy.
This wallet is so much fun to make.
Once you make it, this is so useful.

Have a close look at this wallet..


In this workshop, you can enjoy making the wallet and learn how to install this magical sliding closure..

Booking is accepted on the same day at AQC!!
Come early as this workshop is expected to be famous like last year!!
(it became full within 10 mins last year).

We also run another one this year..*

Origami Kimono


This project is actually easy. You will see how easy you can fold this..

This workshop is run only at 14th and 15th of April from 2pm
Cost: $20 (you can make two origami kimono)

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Participate in our demo workshop: Hime wallet: Free at 29th of March

Hope you are well.

We just came back from Japan, bringing a lot of goodies back to Australia.
We are so prepared for upcoming events (click here to see the event).

Mariko exhibits at AQC (Australasian Quilt Convention) starting from 12th of April.

Have you checked our new workshop for this year??



Hime wallet (you can purchase this fabulous wallet from here).

As we are going to have our first workshop for this project, we are going to run a demo workshop where you can join and give us some constructive feedback. In that case, we can have even better quality of our workshop at quilting fares in 2012!!

The demo workshop will be held at our place in Fitzroy, Victoria, on the 29th of March (1-3pm).

The participation fee (including the kit cost): Free:
please give us constructive feedback, in terms of appropriate wording, process of making the wallet. That will be your commitment but you can make your wallet and take it home! Isn't that great?


Please contact us if would like to participate. We will take only a limited numbers of participants. Be quick and we would appreciate your contribution.


Happy quilting
Mariko