Sekali lagi, kite jumpa utk n3 kali ni. Last post, i’d talked about the theoritical part in designing. All info was based from my 9 years of observation and what i’d discovered trough my learning period.

To verify further on what i’d learned, i managed to hook up on a week  designing course. Designing course ni kite attend just to confirmkan all the observation yg kite buat dan all the knowledge yg kite ade terbuku dalam kepala ni. Justifikasi lain, coz kite xde formal education like others yg pegi belajar fashion ke pegi belajar art ke.. xde! ZERO! so in order to satisfy my hunger in designing and all the big Q,thats why kite buat decision to throw my money and spend for a designing course.

Course yg kite attend, is VERY EXPENSIVE. Nak belaja pasal color theory, color combination, designing – including on fabric, cost yg kite kena baya – RM1300++. Have you ever wanted to do something, really crazy about it and dying to get it and you really in to it, till you eager to pay whatever price for it????? Haa.. itulah dia, that’s what really happened.

Di Malaysia, most of the fashion school, institute or uni, xde yg menyediakan silibus seperti what i want in mind. The nearest is International Fashion Training Centre (IFTC). Their approach is difference from Unis or any other fashion school. After a detailed search and inquiries, and talked to Mdm Annie Wong (the principal), she customized the silibus to tailor my needs. Alhamdulillah..

So the one week journey begins. I had a wonderful and great times. Knowing the teacher – Cik Nik Maznah a.k.a K. Nik, im so impressed with her achievements and experiences. She was same batch with Dato’ Bernard Chandran and currently she had been teaching in IFTC for more than 15 of wonderful years. Most of her student graduated and become local famous designer to name a few – Alvin Tay, Ezuwan Ismail, Ammer Kadir, Jason Yek etc. Im so honored to have her as my teacher.

Comes lets share some of her sketches on floral motif..

Gamba 1.0 K.Nik menunjukkan cara membuat lakaran asas

Gamba 2.0 Mewarnakan asas fabrik

Gamba 3.0 Memilih warna pilihan untuk kuntuman flora

Gamba 4.0 Memilih warna ke-2

Gamba 5.0 Melakukan perincian

What uols think? My personal feeling – unspeakable, undefinable.. too excited! Thank you K.Nik.

Insya allah, pihak senijahitan.com will announce a join collaboration with K.Nik soon.. khas untuk peminat/beaders dalam dunia Beads Embroidery!

Wassalam..

Since malam tadi ingat nk update the final touch for the CRUMBLE design, tapi hajat x berkesampaian. Batuk & flu x ingat dunia punye, sampai rasa nk terkencing2 dibuatnya. Tido pun x dapat. Last2 tertido sendiri. Pagi tadi, x tahannye pasal terpaksalah pegi jumpa Dr Amelia – Our family Dr. Dah lama x sakit teruk camni. Mmg badan fight back agaknye! Natural responses bila dh ter”over” work.

Back to the subject above. Kite janji pada awalnye ingat nk siapkan dlm tempoh 3 ari ye.. eksennye pasal, mane sempat! huhuu.. tu le cakap besar lagi ek! Plus minus keje kat ofis yg bertambun, mmg x dapat nak tolongnye. Balik malam2, ingat nk le pegang manik2, aleh2 terbongkang depan tv. Janji tinggal janji le – cekonon 3 hari, lajaknye samapi seminggu genap!

So, last posting dlm FB update hasil kerja tgn mengaplikasikan rekaan CRUMBLE yang dicipta oleh Umi a.k.a Pepari Design separuh masak. Belum abis lagi beadworknya. Kali ni, seperti yg dijanjikan kite update kerja “100% Cook”. Rasanye, xde lah secantik dan sekemas sang pencipta rekaan ini. Tetapi, kite cuba buat yg terbaik dengan olahan citarasa dan sentuhan dari tgn sendiri. Again, credits to her! Sekiranya k.Umi membaca n3 ini, or sesiapa yg mengenali k.umi, sampaikan ucapan salam dan tahniah kerana berjaya mencipta satu design yg menjadi ikutan para beaders dalam dunia sulaman manik & labuci.

Utk rekaan ini, kite mengenangkan sang pencipta maka, maka ianya dinamakan dengan nama penciptanya sekaligus adiah buat bonda (umi) tercinta sempena Hari Ibu. Sulaman dibuat ke atas bahagian ‘cuff’ dengan kelebaran 3 inch, baju kurung Malaysia. Baju ini bakal dipakai pada kenduri sepupu on 28 May nnti. Lets me share the work with all, comments are most welcome ya..

gamba 1.0 Pandangan dari sisi atas -CrumbleUmi

Antara bahan2 yang digunakan termasuk glass pearls (mutiara) pelbagai saiz – ranging from 8mm, 6mm, 4mm & 3mm, manik MIYUKI 2 cut, manik MIYUKI 11/0 RR, manik MIYUKI 15/0 RR, acrylic stone – eye drop dan round 12mm serta sequin flower bowl saiz 6mm & 5mm. Pada awal rancangan, ingatkan nk letak kristal bentuk 4 segi or bicone tapi x jadi coz dah kehabisan warna yg dirancangkan. So, pakailah ape yg ade. Kumpulan warna2 yg dipilih x lari daripada kumpulan warna merah, kuning dan hijau. Apa yg kite suka ialah perincian dibuat dengan menggunakan manik saiz 15/0. For all, kebanyakan beaders kurang berminat dgn saiz kecik ni coz renyah dan menyakitkan mate. Tapi once u dah apply, kepuasan nye x terhingga. Makin halus material yg digunakan, makin tinggi nilai sulaman dan upahnye pun akan naik skit. Biasalah kan..

gamba 2.0 Pandangan atas CrumbleUmi

Seperti gamba diatas, bak kate beaders semua, bila hujung lengan dah ber”CRUMBLE”, gelang atau any further accessories x diperlukan lagi coz rekaan ini pun dah cukup sarat, setuju x? Bagaikan memakai gelang.. tengoklah efek dan faedahnya, x perlu susah hati takut tangan kene cantas si peragut kan?! Marvelous..

Ok, till next n3. Sekiranya ade yg berminat untuk menyertai kelas Crumble ni, kelas hanya diemail kepada subcribers shj.

Later, wassalam.

Sejak pelancaran dvd 20 teknik sulaman manik dan labuci, sambutannya sungguh x disangka. Dengan itu, kite amat berterima kasih kepada yg memberi support berterusan kepada senijahitan.com. Insya allah, selagi masih ade kekuatan, kite akan bersama2 belajar dan saling berkongsi apa jua ilmu BE.

Kepada yg belum membeli dan berminat untuk membeli, bole click gamba/imej dvd  atau link dan proceed dgn pembelian. Kepada yg telah membeli, susulan daripada isi pembelajaran dr dvd, bole refer sedikit sebanyak tips spt video dibawah. Hopefully, video dibawah akan memberi idea bagaimana u all bole come up with ur own rekaan. Jangan lupe utk rujuk kepada previous n3 bertajuk – “Beads Embroidery: How To Design?” sebagai guidelines semasa u all membuat sketches rekaan. Nanti, kite akan ada part 2 (utk guidelines) pulak ye..

Happy viewing & beading!

Hot video 20 teknik asas sulaman manik dan labuci;

http://senijahitan.com/videosulaman

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1stly, my appologize to Kate. Janji malam seminggu yang lepas tapi hari ni baru berkesempatan utk upload. Sorry ye ..

Tanpa lengah2 masa, meh tgh gamba design utk jubah Kate

Jubahnye kale hitam dan requirement Kate nak dimanikkan pada bahagian lengan, badan baju dan bwh kain.

So, ini sketches nye:

Design 1:

Material yg disuggestkan:

- sequin, manik hexa11/0 , manik bulat RR 11/0 dan Hot Fix Stone

Teknik: Tabur yg paling nampak mudah tapi bila membuatnye, masya allah..

Design 2:

material used: acrylic stone, dah hot fix stone pelbagai size.

Teknik: jelujur

Kate kate dia nak glamour. when it come about being glamorous, 2 mende yg selalu kite pakai is, acrylic stone dan HFS. ade 2 ni pun dah cukup. impak dia menyerlahkan sgt!

gamba 1 kalau nak glamour tapi kos rendah skit. tapi yg ke2 kos tinggi sikit la..so terpulang kepada Kate nak pilih yg mane satu.

Work In Progress (WIP)

setakat ni kite berjaya melatihkan smula kecekapan tgn selepas 1 buan concentrate nak raya kan?! meh tgk pra tonton antara design2 yg kite buat.

ini insya allah akan siap x lama lagi. ni baru gamba hujung lengan. Combination of glass pearls, sequin, manik2 hex 11/0, manik RR 8/0 dan manik bulat 11/0 RR.

Yg ni plak baju batik, lembik sgt kainnye.. chiffon batik.. lemah semangat nak jait..Corak bunga2 nye kat depan. Yg ni betul2 mencabar minda betul. Utk itu, x yah pening2 kepala sampai darah naik, yg petg letak stone kale kuning oen yg baru ni, kasi nampak menyerlah. Teknik yg diapply sennang je, tali air.

Nnti, bila dah siap kite preview. baju yg jait lepas2 x dpt nak upload, nnti kite cuba korek from customer lagi..

Later

Jumpa lagi utk idea sharing session. But 1st, kene minta maaf ngan Ct dulu coz lama janji ngan dia tapi x sempat nak upload. Harap Ct faham condition akak ye. Sketches lama dah siap cume masa je x dpt nak dicuri. Kalau ade 8 tgn, mcm2 rasanye nak buat, 24 hours seems not enough for me.

Anyway, utk x menghampakan CT, Norain & Yunie, meh kite tgk ape yg dpt kite suggest atas sketches. X  le canggih mane, setakat idea yg ade, bila nampak gamba, ape yg keluar, came across my mind – inilah hasilnye. Mungkin CT, Yunie & Norain or sesape saje bole add lagi, u r most welcome!

Meh kite tgk gamba baju CT dulu. Gamba ni x tau le mn CT dpt ye. Sebb ade cop “Butik SunLay” . So kite attach gamba ni as it is. No offences.

Gambar 1.0 Ct’s Embroided Baju

CT request utk idea mcm mn dia nak BE atas hujung lengan baju yg berlapis tu dengan bwh baju. Dah ade taburan berlian (hot fix stone) pd lengan dan lekuk2 sulaman benang.

My suggestion, since baju tu pun dah eksklusif penuh dengan sulaman kat dada baju, bahagian tgn just keep it simple. Bagi mengekalkan kemewahan baju, kite suggest pakai manik saiz 15/0, kalau nak guna labuci pun pakai yg kecik – 5mm. Untuk dada, senang dah ade corakknye. Just add manik2 or labuci atas corak yg dah ade. Cume main kale sahaja. Bole cuba utk kumpulan ijau 11/0 hexa 2 cut, kale code 6, 26, 1014, 361, or 15/0 kale kod 16, 14.  Utk kumpulan kale2 panas (warm) bole cuba 5,8, 254, 367, 363.

Bahagian tangan pula bole cuba design yg akak dah suggest kat bwh ni:

Gambar 2.0 Suggested Design For CT

Dengan kale2 yg dicadangkan spt kat atas tadi.

Bagi Norain pula dari email nye, dia minta upgrade bajunye yg dah ade taburan manik. Katenye kainnye lembik sgt. So dia nak kasi up skit fabrik tu utk dipakai masa presentation dia. Mmmm.. presentation ape x tau le plak ye. Tapi kalau corporate presentation then x leh heavy bling2 sgt. Kalau nak ke kenduri kawin then glamour skit xpe.

Meh tgk baju Norain.

Gambar 3.0 Baju Norain

Since, kainnye lembik dan dah ade manik skit2, so kite suggest Norain tambah sequin saiz 4mm flat or curve dengan kale2 spt SQ4FR03, SQ4FG01 jait secara tabur atau jait teknik cendawan dgn secara bertabur. Cant overdo sebb dah ade manik ye!

Now, last but not least – baju Yunie. Rasanye baju ni Yunie pernah bw masa kelas. Tapi sebb masa x mengizinkan x dpt nak bayangkan lebih.  So ni baju Yunie..

Gambar 4.0 Baju Yunie

dan ni plak ape yg kite sketchedkan utk dia. Hopefully, dia get the same imagination as i do.

Gambar 5.0 Design For Yunie

Since Yunie kate dia nak pakai stone, so the color yg kite suggest is dark grey n pink merah. I dont have the suggested color. Maybe Yunie bole cari kat mane2 kedai kraf. Then ade straight of lines sewn tepi stone secara condong antara color2 yg dicadangkan spt 21, 464, 401, 380, or 333. In between susunan stones, akan dijahit pulak pearsl pelbagai size dengan color2 spt dlm kedai manik 6GP10, 6GP03, 6GP01. Kalau x nak pearls then jaitle manik bersayap secara dekat supaya nampak mixture kat situ.

Ok, hopefully, all three of u will understand ape yg kite suggestkan. Selalunye, ape yg kuar dr kepale kite once tabled down to u all, only 50-50 persamaan tu ade tapi jgn risau, gunakanlah daya imaginasi + kreativiti utk value add. Coz i believed that evrybody is creative!

Good Luck to CT, Norain & Yunie.

Next post kite akan tgk some recently beadwork done.

p/s: Bole refer to kedaimanik for further details & email me if you agreed on the suggested color.

Subject above refers. Actually, i’ve done  BE  on the ‘baju’ almost 2 weeks ago. Trying to meet up with dainee since then but eventually failed to do so. Im stuffed with office workload n almost everyday (for d past 2 weeks) we all (our team) going back at 9.30pm. Camne tu???? Exhausted..

‘Jurnal kurus’ which supposed to be everyday input was left hanging like that. Failed to committ at Fitness First (FF). Hoping to reduce my weight from all the tense n stressfulness at work. Boleh ka???? Mmmmmm.. If it’s so simple just like that, then it must be miracle!

Back to d topic. Lets see the ‘baju’. When dainee hand over it to me, it was beaded only around d neck. She wore the ‘baju’ on her engagement day n would like to recycle n embelished it to give a new look. Another point, save money as well. During the economic downturn, we need to implement cost cutting. Lepas kawin nak survive lagi kan?

Lets see. Beaded acrylic stones around ‘V’ area.

Since i’d decided to stich danglings around the arm, to make it look standardize n evenly embelished, same techniques were applied at the end of the V shape – Dangling n WS (Wing of Sequin).

Lets see the output.

A lil bit of touch just with a combination of 11/0 round bead, 4mm sequins, 11/0 hex 2 cut and stone.

As for the whole baju, mainly arm n lower part , the existing beads was remained. Additional danglings was added around the arm – the purpose is to highlight the pattern.

Same type of beads but for the arms we used  small size of glass pearls. The overall output can be seen down below:

This is the overall look on a mannequin excluded the V shape.

Hopefully, dainee will like it. Towards the end, im going to send her the baju by tradisional postage services. Dah nak jumpa payah sgt…Anything do call me.

Seperti yang dijanjikan, setelah balik dr kenduri kat bangi, kite will preview design yang dibuat atas baju kurung thai silk kale oren yang dipakai sempena majlis pernikahan adik ipar kite ngan org bangi. Baju kurung ni dijahit baju kurung biasa dan plan awal nak wat heavy sulaman manik & labuci kat bahagian bwh baju kurung dan 2 belah lengan. Tapi disebabkan masa suntuknye pasal, banyak sgt mende yang nak dipegang, disulam, so lastly endingnye mlm tadi baru dpt pegang. Badan penat, otak pun penat. Sebabnya, ptg semlm dah bw anak2 pegi JJ jalan2, makan kat Nando’s. Balik sampai rumah dah jam 9.30pm. Aduhh… ponek x terkate..

Nasib Kelas Sulaman Manik & Labuci yang dijadualkan semlm (Sabtu) di Alor Gajah, Melaka terpaksa dibatalkan sebb function ari ni di Bangi. Kalau x, mau tergolek sorang2! Baju ntah kemane, kelas ntah kemane. Back to baju kurung. Nak dijadikan cerita setelah termenung seketika sambil memegang kain (adelah dlm 20 min), kite terus pegi dlm store simpanan manik2 & labuci. Jengah kat rak2 manik nak tengok ape kale yg nak dimatchingkan ni. Idea xde lagi kuar. tgn pun x sketchkan ape2 atas paper. Termenung je lebih.. hihiii..

Bawa baju kurung matchkan lepas satu satu manik  ngan sequin. Last2 dah dpt kale, baru le perah pale nak jait corak ape. Mmmmmm.. nak jait design ape???? Another BIG Q.. ayaaaa… Last2, just amik je jarum cucuk benang, capai je sequin2 yg ade.. try n error. So inilah hasilnye yg x seberapa..

Ini hasil sulaman manik dan labuci kat hujung lengan baju kurung. Nama design jgn tanye – coz x tau. Tapi ape yg surenya, kite apply teknik manik bersayap (Wing of Sequin), tali air (Running Beads) pastu disulami dengan taburan mutiara saiz 4mm kale krim + some acrylic stone. At 1st, sulaman kat tgn ni nak dibuat menjalar dari hujung lengan naik ke atas tapi bila memikirkan masa yg amatlah suntuk, coz kite hanya ade masa 8 jam (sekiranya dikira dari jam 10pm  hinga 6.am) staying up without having any sleep at all dan x berhenti menyulam… musti kite bole siapkan. That’s why, hasilnya sulaman tu dibuat dalam saiz kelebaran 2 inch.

Ini plak pandangan dari sudut yang berlainan skit. Masih lagi menunjukkan kedua hujung lengan yg same. Disebabkan ikut je gerak tgn menyulam, so corak pada kedua lengan baju kurung antara depan dan belakang totally x same. Coz selalunye kite akan sketchkan dan lakar corak yg same kan? tapi kali ni – FREE STYLE. Sesedap rasa hati dan gerak tgn!

Ok, kite tgk close up nye.

It may not be a masterpiece yang slalunye kite rasa puas, tapi as long as ianya sempat disiapkan sampai ke pagi, then itu dah mencukupi setakat ni lah – bagi kite. Kalau ikutkan mmg nak wat lebih cantik, lagi gempak. Tapi, apakan daya. Ade time nye tgn pegang jarum, tapi mate tetiba je gulap duniaku! Hahaaa.. Sampai tercucuk jari sndiri, rasa sakit, terkujat baru bulaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt balik bijik mate!!! kepale toksah cakap le.. terhangguk2 tu ntah dah bape puluh kali dalam tempoh 8 jan tu. 1 malam x tido nak pakai baju sulaman manik nye pasal! Dan lama x buat kejean camni..

Hope u all enjoy it. Semua manik dan sequin yang dipakai semasa dlm process menyulam tu ade dlm kedai manik. Mungkin lepas dibasuh baju ni nnti kite akan enhance lagi skit. Tambah pada bahagian bawah baju kurung..

Insya allah..