patches sewing is my thing

almost done, almost

2008-09-25T20:57:00.000-07:00

Finally, the hand sewing is finished. I have six big squares that

needed to be sewed and putting a backup before it will be totally,

totally finished. Wish me luck!

Meanwhile I'm starting a new piece today that hopefully will be

finished at the end of next week. We'll see to that:)

This one supposed to be for someone else

2008-09-25T20:08:00.000-07:00

I admit that this is supposed to be a commisioned work.

It's for one of my previous bussiness acquintance new

office. She wants to be full with patches that has

messages on woman and other environmental issues

because it's an NGO office that she's going to opened.

I used 36 woodcut and screen printing patches made

by my friend in Jogjakarta, Central Java. I love their

choices of colours and also their neat production quality.

For the fabric, it's from an unused bedsheet with stripes.

But come on, who would let something this cool being

taken away? I know, I'm just being an egocentric crafter:)

In memoriam Propiracy Distro

2008-09-17T22:58:00.000-07:00

I used to run this distro with my previous boyfriend.

And at that moment it closed down, we have a pile

of these patches left. I decides to put them in one

of my new pieces that so far almost half of these patches

being used together with my fabrics scraps.

There are 27 patcehs in red and white with green linings.

The size of each patches is 10 x 12 cm.

Oh so excited to be back making this again!

My first piece!

2008-09-11T06:59:00.000-07:00

Look! How gorgeous it turned out after trying to finished it

for almost one year. It's more about putting my patches

collections at that time into something other than clothings

and bags like I used to do.

I made some of the patches in term of the lines, and I put

lots of my big woodcut patches pieces too. I used baby pink

fabrics with small strips as the background in one metre.

Love in fuschia.

2008-09-11T06:49:00.000-07:00

This is my favorite patches piece that I have ever made so far.

I even tattoed this artwork on my leftarm. The artwork only

has one line: Tresno. It means love in Sanskrit and I order like

50 pieces of patches from my a woodcut artist friend of mine

in Jogja.

The only thing missing from this one metre piece is a part where

I could hang it on to something. Therefore I am thinking of using

it as a sofa throws instead of wall hanging.

What do you think?

Black and Red Means Rebelliously Yummy!

2008-09-11T06:41:00.000-07:00

Oh I really, really love how this one turned out.

I order the patches in bunches like 50 of them

only in red and grey colour fabric background,

screeprinted with a woodcut art by a friend in

Jogja.

The patches only have one line, Mardika!

means Free with a guy in a long dread playing

his guitar in style. Rock on!

Black and White Is Immortal

2008-09-11T06:22:00.000-07:00

This piece was stolen from my house awhile back.

Don't ask how mad I about this and there is no

way I could start to make a similar one since

those patches are my collections since years ago.

I used Balinese traditional fabric as the background.

There are only made in two color combinations,

black and white and white and red. I bought

this one metre fabric in Ubud.

With most of the patches I picked are those with
black and white colour only. Unfortunately,
I forgot how many patches I put on this piece.