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- #277 Fabric Center has cotton fabric for 89 baht per meter. They have jelly rolls, fat quarters, and a remnant table! Brands include Pallette Pleasure and Brother and Sister Design Studio.
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- #258 Sampeng Lane, Belleboo has cotton fabric at 49 to 89 baht per meter
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- #258 Belleboo
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- #261 SM Fabric Co Ltd has cotton fabric for 89 baht per meter
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- #261 SM Fabric Co Ltd
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- #183 Sampeng Lane, TSP has cotton fabric for 89 baht per meter, including Island Style by Lecien
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- #150 Sampeng Lane, at 3 meters for 105 baht, Chuan Hua is the cheapest of all the cotton fabric shops. They have RJR and Jinny Beyer.
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- #163 Sampeng Lane, SGM has some cute prints
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- The sarongs are back! #96 Vibul Kit has great new designs!
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- #67 Sampeng Lane, Kijrung Shop has feather boas, iron on Swarovski crystals, lace collars, tassels, applique ABC letters, bells and pearls.
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- 99 baht per meter at Meh On Shop at #39 Sampeng lane
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- Kimono House at China World Mall has a large selection of quilt fabrics at low prices, 99 baht per yard
Bernina is sponsoring workshops by popular quilt teacher Libby Lehman. Libby Lehman is famous for her stunning quilt techniques and for teaching at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. She is the author of “Threadplay”, a best seller. She will teach 2 days, 2 techniques:
- Threadplay – Friday August 17, at Bernina Pradipat (see address and phone below). Learn to free motion quilt for stunning effects. Also learn to use ribbon, draw with thread, and potluck appliqué. 3890 baht (3580 if you bring your Bernina machine), 10:00 to 16:00 includes lunch
Threadplay – suitable for all skill levels
- Super Machine Stitching – Saturday August 18, at Bernina Pradipat (see address and phone below). Learn various designs of free motion quilting, learn to use various sewing machine needles, and create a unique design on fabric. 3890 baht (3580 if you bring your Bernina machine), 10:00 to 16:00 includes lunch
Super Machine Stitching – suitable for all skill levels
- Blue Sport headquarters
169/48-49 Pradipat Rd, Samsennai
Phayathai 10400
0-2270-0029,0-2270-0030
Hours 09.00-17.30 - Bernina at Siam Paragon
Floor 4, zone Exotique Thai
Tel. 0-2690-1000 ext 1892 , 086-7937367,086-9667616 - Bernina at Central Bangna
Floor 4 electronics zone, near escalator
Tel. 081-1981915 - Bernina at The Mall Bangkapi
Floor 3 Housewares
Tel. 0-2173-1000 ext 595, 084-8546130, - Bernina at Emporium
Floor 4 near the glass elevator, in front of Fuji Restaurant
Tel. 086-9667616 - Bernina at The Mall Ramkhamhaeng 2
Floor 3 Housewares
Tel. 0-2310-1200 ext 1264, 089-7852498 - Bernina at Tang Hua Seng – Thonburi branch
Floor 3 Bernina booth in the Sewing and Crafts department
Tel. 0-2434-0448,0-2881-9500,089-0346909 - Paradise Park, formerly known as Seri Center
Srinakarin Rd, Prawet District, Bangkok
Floor 3 near restaurant zone
Tel. 0-2787-1000 ext 8326 , 082-5487985
Pahurat is the Indian fabric market near Sampeng Lane in Bangkok. You have to find the escalator and that’s how you know it’s the upstairs Pahurat market. The shops sell denim, corduroy, velour, canvas, cotton, and gauze. Once in a while we find novelty cottons or other great fabric for quilting. Adela recommends exploring the ground floor of Pahurat for fashionable dresses. They have some very nice evening dresses in shops on the ground floor of Pahurat.
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- Upstairs at Pahurat: Lan Heng Co. sells felt by the meter. Minimum is 1 meter. Prices range from 60 to 80 baht per meter. Hours 9:30 am to 5:00 pm, closed Sunday.
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- This is upstairs at Pahurat.
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- This is the entrance to Pahurat. This is where the escalator is. It is right across the street from the big red Chinaworld mall.
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- Bus 53 stops at Pahurat.
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- This is right next to the escalator, leading into the market on the ground floor.
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- This is the escalator up to the second floor of Pahurat. Most of the time, it is stopped so you just walk up it.
Here is the place to get plain hair clips, hair bands, earrings, and rings. They have tons of decorations to make your own hair accessories, also decorations for clothes, shoes, and purses, and supplies to make nylon flowers. It’s near the Ratchawong Pier in Chinatown, Bangkok. Hours are 6:00 am to 4:00 pm daily. Except for half day on Sunday. They also have a branch at Pratunam on Soi Petchaburi 19. It looks really nice.
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- The shop is on the corner of Anuwong and Ratchawong Roads near the Ratchawong Pier.
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- 45 Ratchawong Road
Kathy Nakajima was born on the island of Maui, Hawaii. She is a popular quilter in Japan, a TV personality and author of many quilt books and DVDs. And now she’s coming to Thailand to teach the art of Hawaiian Quilting! Learn how to translate the vivid colors of nature into a Hawaiian quilt with Kathy.
Elna-Janome Sewing Machines and Sewing Lovers Club present Happy Hawaiian Quilt Workshop. First time in Thailand, taught by Kathy Nakajima. Kathy is celebrating 40 years of quilting!
Learn all the latest Hawaiian Quilting techniques including how to choose color combinations, accurately cut fabric, applique, and quilt! All the accessories you need to make Hawaiian Quilts will be available for sale at the Saha Group Export & Trade Exhibition 2012 from June 28 to July 1 at Queen Sirikit Convention Center. Hours 10:00 to 22:00. Sewing machine sale! Go to the Janome booth to get a good deal on a sewing machine.
The Hawaiian Quilt Workshop takes place in Boardroom 4 and is a one-day workshop on either
- Saturday 30 June 2012 10.00 – 17.00
- Sunday 1 July 2012 10.00 – 17.00
Please call 02-689-8520 ext 244 for more information.
Sign up now! Reserve a place.
sewingloversclub.com
www.facebook.com/sewingloversclubthai
Roy Raan means The 100 Shop in Thai, and this is due to the address being 100 Sampeng Lane! This shop sells wholesale costumes and accessories including hats, cowboy hats, feather hairbands, bows, clips, plastic tiaras, combs, wigs, hair ribbons, false teeth, fake beards, hula skirts and fishnets for kids. Costumes include dinosaur, giraffe, tiger and Aladdin. Costumes and accessories for Halloween, Christmas etc. They have a lot of hair accessories, like clips, bands and tiaras. It’s similar to all the stuff in the Oriental Trading Company catalog.
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- colorful wigs, bows and clips, costumes hanging at upper left
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- pink hairbands 60 baht each, or a dozen for 600 baht
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- hats and hairbands
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- wigs, animal hats
There is a quilt contest in Thailand! It’s sponsored by Elna-Janome and the prizes are Janome sewing machines and cash totaling over 350,000 baht. The poster advises us to “Get the green back. Turn over a new leaf for the world. Show the power of nature through threads of cloth and needlework, for a better tomorrow. Calling all quilt lovers, enter the contest and win cash and Janome sewing machines.”
The rules are:
- finished quilt including borders not bigger than 100 x 100 cm (100 cm = 39.4 inches)
- theme: “eco quilt for the environment”
- any method, fabric, techniques allowed
- hand or machine quilting
Send in your quilt by June 15th, to Wien Co.,Ltd., all Sewing Lovers Clubs counters, and Elna and Janome department store branches. Prizes will be announced on June 29 at the SAHA Fair, Queen Sirikit convention center.
Anyone can enter worldwide. What are your ideas for an eco-quilt?
