Fabiola, a very dear longtime friend of Jessica, was in town for a few days and asked us to visit her at her friends' shop in Ampang, northern part of KL.
I admit, the facade of this shop does look run down a bit, fading colours, non-too appealing signboard...
But as the proverb says "don't judge a book by its cover"........do make an effort to bypass your initial prejudgement.
Beside the usual retail of fabrics for sewing lovers, selling all kinds of embroidery, conducting sewing classes, making soft toys and etcetera........
Actually more alike sewing patches,...."remember when your mum sewed a patch on your pants to cover the hole? or sewed a name tag or badge on your uniform?"
Cottage Patch does all that, but on a much, much grander scale.
Wai, the maestro, comes up with the design and patterns, which he claims is all in his head.....just does it on the fly, .........and sews patches on patches on patches........creating a huge, amazing, grandiose quilt.
And no, we are not talking 1 quilt......the loving couple presented us with a selection of their handcrafted quilts. And suffice to say, we were totally taken aback by the fine artistry.
As each quilt is pure man-made, thread by thread, you can imagine how looooooong it takes to finish just one whole piece. I confess, it takes patience, lots of patience and dilengence
The prices demanded are quite steep, but if you take in the hours spend on producing a quilt,.....and bear in mind, of each single quilt there is only one version on the whole planet. How to put a monetary figure on such a piece of work?
Quite understandable that some pieces are totally not for sale, as they are only one in a million.....it's alike parting with its offspring.....
Would we easily part with our ever growing dragon girl ourselves? Not right now, and we shiver when we think of that event happening in the future.....
Well, we didn't part away with a quilt in the boot of our car, how mightily impressed we were though...........but maybe one day, who knows....
And no, we are not talking 1 quilt......the loving couple presented us with a selection of their handcrafted quilts. And suffice to say, we were totally taken aback by the fine artistry.
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| let's start with flowery themes |
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| psychedelic if you ask me |
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| thousands and thousands of individual,unique patches on a quilt |
As each quilt is pure man-made, thread by thread, you can imagine how looooooong it takes to finish just one whole piece. I confess, it takes patience, lots of patience and dilengence
The prices demanded are quite steep, but if you take in the hours spend on producing a quilt,.....and bear in mind, of each single quilt there is only one version on the whole planet. How to put a monetary figure on such a piece of work?
Quite understandable that some pieces are totally not for sale, as they are only one in a million.....it's alike parting with its offspring.....
Would we easily part with our ever growing dragon girl ourselves? Not right now, and we shiver when we think of that event happening in the future.....
Well, we didn't part away with a quilt in the boot of our car, how mightily impressed we were though...........but maybe one day, who knows....
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