modeS Blog - Part 64

What customers make with our fabrics: bags and Furoshiki

by modes4u September 30, 2014

Time for a mini edition of “what customers make with our fabrics”. In the last weeks our Dutch customer fabriekt.nl showed us her beautiful bags she sewed using many of our Kokka and echino fabrics. Our French customer Bienvenue Chez Flaneuze is using our Michael Miller Kiss me fabric and the colorful Timeless Treasures cat fabric as Furoshiki. Furoshiki are traditional Japanese wrapping cloths to transport things.

fabriekt.nl from the Netherlands sewed lovely bags with our fabrics

fabriekt.nl mainly used echino and Kokka fabrics for her bags

off-white Canvas ladybird fabric by Kokka

bee echino Canvas laminate fabric black red honeycomb

Bienvenue Chez Flaneuze uses our fabrics as Furoshiki wrapping cloths

Super colorful cat Furoshiki by Bienvenue Chez Flaneuze

Michael Miller retro comic fabric Kiss me Love

colored designer fabric with funny colourful cats

September 30, 2014 0 comment

Kawaii Miffy cake during our company lunch

by modes4u September 28, 2014

We had a couple of reasons to celebrate lately so the whole modes4u team – including baby Mason – went to have a company Dim Sum lunch together a couple of weeks ago. We officially welcomed our new team members Sita and Iris who support our warehouse staff. Our team members Ho, Maggie and Dave all had their birthdays in the last weeks. And for every birthday there should be cake. We got a super kawaii Miffy cake that looked almost too cute to eat. It was a delicious chocolate sponge filled with yummy custard.

After a yummy Dim Sum lunch we had delicious Miffy chocolate cake

Our team members Maggie, Ho and Dave all celebrated their birthdays lately – we made them little Washi Tape name flags

Ho is cutting the Miffy cake

The whole modes4u team including baby Mason

The kawaii Miffy cake was almost too cute to eat

September 28, 2014 0 comment

DIY Crafts: Halloween Cards with Washi Tape

by modes4u September 22, 2014

Are you writing Halloween cards this year? With Masking Tapes you can easily make unique Halloween cards with fun designs. This year we made 3 different versions. Happy Halloween crafting!

Craft kawaii Halloween cards with Washi Tape

DIY Ghost Halloween card

DIY bat Halloween card

DIY Boo Halloween card

September 22, 2014 0 comment

New in our shop: Northcott fabrics

by modes4u September 14, 2014

We are excited to introduce our new fabric supplier Northcott fabrics. The company with offices in Canada and the USA was already founded in 1935 but it wasn’t until the eighties that they focused on the cotton prints which they are known for today. They have lots of beautiful fabrics that are perfect for quilting, crafting and home decor.

We have lots of pretty cottons and cotton flannels with cute animal or children designs. Northcott fabrics also carries many great panel fabrics and Cheater fabrics which you should definitely check out.

We now carry Northcott fabrics on modes4u.com

turquoise Safari animal fabric by Northcott Studio

white Safari plant leaf fabric by Northcott Studio

white dragon fabric Magical Dragons by Northcott Studio

white pirate children fabric Ahoy Matie Northcott Studio

cream fairy ballet fabric Bella Ballerina Northcott Studio

colorful stripes fabric Flamingo Fling Northcott Studio

aqua flower circle fabric Flamingo Fling Northcott Studio

white bird animal fabric Flamingo Fling Northcott Studio

blue funny shark fabric Shark Attack Northcott Studio

pirate panel children fabric Ahoy Matie Northcott Studio

white Safari animal panel fabric by Northcott Studio

September 14, 2014 0 comment

Free eraser gift for the next 100 shop orders!

by modes4u September 12, 2014

We have a big surprise for the weekend: The next 100 orders in our online shop modes4u.com will receive a super cute Japanese eraser as a free gift (while stock lasts, picture is for reference only). The kawaii erasers from our surprise box are all from the Japanese manufacturer Iwako. They look amazingly realistic and are just adorable. Hurry with your order for a chance to get one of them for free.

The next 100 orders on modes4u.com get a kawaii free surprise eraser

September 12, 2014 0 comment

World in Colours Mid-Autumn Lanterns in Hong Kong

by modes4u September 10, 2014

It’s time for lanterns and mooncakes again. The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming up in Hong Kong and you can find beautiful lantern installations throughout the city. We already visited the World in Colours display in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza in Tsim Sha Tsui. The lanterns show people from all around the world. Even though it is quite stereotypical and sometimes also political incorrect the lanterns still look pretty.

Cute elephant lantern

Russian woman lantern

Indian lantern with teepee

Dutch woman lantern

Brazilian man lantern with soccer ball

Cowboy lantern

Eskimo lantern

very political incorrect African man lantern

Scottish man lantern

Penguin lanterns

Giraffe and zebra lanterns

Beautiful Lantern carnival in Tsim Sha Tsui

Chinese Female Costume Lantern

Chinese Male Costume Lantern

September 10, 2014 2 comments

Kawaii free Halloween iPhone wallpapers

by modes4u September 8, 2014

Halloween is coming up, so if you want to dress up your iPhone for the holiday, we have the cutest wallpapers for you. These three Fruity Cuties iPhone wallpapers have adorable vegetable Halloween designs. Just click on the pictures below to download the wallpapers for free.

kawaii fruity cuties undead beet Halloween iPhone wallpaper

kawaii fruity cuties potato ghost Halloween iPhone wallpaper

kawaii fruity cuties hazelnut witch Halloween iPhone wallpaper

September 8, 2014 0 comment

Shop categories Halloween and Christmas are online

by modes4u September 6, 2014

A couple of days ago we activated our shop categories Halloween and Christmas again. So now you can find all our products for these two holidays in one place and don’t have to browse through the different shop categories. Have a look, we added some cute Halloween and Christmas fabrics in the last couple of days. You can find the two categories in the left-hand menu in our online shop modes4u.com. Happy shopping!

Our Halloween and Christmas categories are online now

purple Riley Blake cobwebs fabric Halloween Parade

purple owl Halloween fabric Stonehenge Fright Night

orange Riley Blake children fabric Halloween Parade

animal zombie Halloween memo pad Kamio Japan

black ghost Halloween fabric Slime Time

purple Halloween ghost devil scented eraser from Japan

red Christmas tree panel Christmas fabric Quilting Treasures

black Xmas tree deer Christmas fabric Quilting Treasures

Tree ornaments Christmas fabric Quilting Treasures

Christmas owl stripe flannel fabric Holiday Hoot

Riley Blake Santa Claus Xmas fabric Lost & Found Christmas

polar bear reindeer Christmas Letter Set by Kamio

September 6, 2014 0 comment

Cute new Christmas fabrics in our shop

by modes4u September 4, 2014

It’s still a while until Christmas but we start receiving the latest Christmas fabrics with our fabric shipments. We just added some super cute Christmas fabrics in cotton and cotton flannel to our shop. We’re highly in love with the adorable Christmas owl prints from the manufacturer Northcott. They also sent us an amazing advent calendar panel fabric that that be turned into a reusable yearly advent calendar. What a great idea!

Some typical kawaii Christmas prints reached us from Japan, the Cosmo Christmas fabrics really have a unique design.

From the US we received many cute Riley Blake Christmas fabrics. There are lots of cute prints with deer, snowmen and Christmas trees, but also very cool Vintage prints with Santa Claus and Christmas wreaths.

You can now find many cute new Christmas fabrics on modes4u.com

blue Christmas owl flannel fabric Holiday Hoot

Christmas owl stripe flannel fabric Holiday Hoot

owl Christmas fabric advent calendar Holiday Hoot

hot pink Christmas tree ornament Cosmo Christmas fabric

hot pink Santa Claus music Cosmo Christmas fabric

Santa Claus matryoshka stripe Cosmo Christmas fabric

Riley Blake Santa Claus Xmas fabric Lost & Found Christmas

Riley Blake wreath frame Xmas fabric Lost & Found Christmas

Christmas Basics Riley Blake snowman Xmas fabric blue

blue Christmas Basics Riley Blake Xmas fabric snowman

Riley Blake Santa Claus Xmas fabric Home for the Holidays

white Riley Blake tree Xmas fabric Home for the Holidays

green Riley Blake reindeer Xmas fabric Home for the Holidays

white Riley Blake reindeer Xmas fabric Home for the Holidays

red Riley Blake Xmas flannel fabric Home for the Holidays

September 4, 2014 0 comment

Sanrio Star Chef Institute exhibition in Hong Kong

by modes4u September 2, 2014

Langham Place has done it again. The shopping mall in Hong Kong’s district Mong Kok has been hosting Hello Kitty / Sanrio character themed exhibitions for a while and is currently running the Sanrio Star Chef Institute exhibition. Some of the most well-known Sanrio characters have their own little stations in this display, which is all about being or becoming a professional chef. The different parts are really great. Dear Daniel and Hello Kitty welcome visitors at the entrance of the Institute and there is a hallway which shows their chef certificates. My Melody waters the strawberries in the greenhouse while Kuromi and friends are experimenting in the food lab. Bad Badtz-Maru seems to be a famous star chef or teacher who has his own cooking show which is filmed by seal Hana-Maru. The Little Twin Stars are in charge of lectures about how to make drinks.

If you visit the exhibition you should definitely go to the upper levels of the mall, as there are many more exhibits to be found like the cool Hello Kitty ice cream truck or the cool hanging Sanrio sweets exhibits.