Category: Gifts by Donation

We would like to thank Ms Saras for her kind donation of RM150 for our homesewn patchwork blanket. Ms Saras requested a vibrant and colourful square patchwork, so we used 15 different fabrics to create this design. The backing cloth is the soft and comfortable cotton donated by Ms Ooi.

We would like to thank Mr ES Tan for his kind donation of RM300 for these 2 homesewn patchwork blankets. A blue and a red. The blue backing is beige. The other backing is light yellow with pictures, donated by Ms Ooi. Tiger, my sewing supervisor. I sewed the top and my mum sewed the…

We would like to thank Megkara for her kind donation of RM160 for these homesewn reversible foldable batik bags. If you’d like to order, please write to me at chankahyein@gmail.com. Thank you! Megkara chose all batik and these batik fabric was donated by Mr Ooi. She will be giving them away as Christmas presents.  They make…

We are really grateful to our anonymous donor for her kind donation of RM300 and this gave us the opportunity to use up all of the remaining songket cloth to sew 7 mini tote bags. It is the same donor who donated the cloth too. This last one is made from remnants of the red…

Update: All the songket cloth has been used up now. The original post: We would like to thank Ms Liew WY for her kind donation of RM50 for this red songket bag. And of course, to our anonymous donor who donated all the songket cloth and Mr Ooi In Haw, for donating the songkety (cotton)…

Updates: All the songket cloth has been used up now.  But we still have the cotton songkety cloth.  Please write to chankahyein@gmail.com for enquiries. The original post: We would like to thank our anonymous donor for her very kind donation of RM800 for these 12 songket bags! Our anonymous donor also bought the cloth for…

We would like to thank our reader and ardent FB follower, Ms Iza, for her very generous contribution of RM350 to our Fund for this red potpourri blanket. This blanket is made out of small pieces of reds, orange, yellow and related shades.  It has a border of strawberry motives. It took me more than…

We would like to thank Che Khalifa very much for her generous contribution of RM500 for our first two “new generation” potpourri blankets! The concept now is to use remnant cloth to create blankets so that resources and material are not wasted. Even the tiniest pieces are used. Many of the fabric used was donated…

After publising the photos of the two small potpourri blankets I made for the cats, using remnant cloth, we are pleased that one of our readers, Che Khalifa, decided to order two of such blankets (single-sized, ie. at least 55 in by 75 in). Here is the first one: Beauty in chaos! What we call…

We would like to thank Mr Ooi In Haw for his generous donation of RM1200 for these 4 blankets for his son. Mr Ooi also donated all the cloth for the top. The backing cloth is donated by my mum’s ex-student and mum sewed all four blankets, as per requested by Mr Ooi who wanted…

I’m back in sewing mode again and this time, we’ll be doing “real” patchwork pieces, making use of remnant cloth to create covers and blankets (made to order). Last time, our patchwork pieces were made with specially bought/donated cloth so each one had designs, but this time, let’s do “real” patchwork of using remnant cloth…

We would like to thank our anonymous donor and long-time supporter for her kind donation of RM400 for these small foldable bags. They will be gifted to orphans for Christmas later this year! These are meaningful and useful gifts – to educate the young on using cloth bags instead of plastic ones. And of course,…