modeS Blog - Part 70

Fabric Fruit Salad

by modes4u April 28, 2014

We’re inspired by spring and mix our own fruit salad today – on fabric. We carry lots of funny food fabrics with fruit or vegetable prints. Today we mix some apples, cherries, strawberries, pears and raspberries together. What a yummy collection.

lightweight green apple cotton sateen fabric by Kokka

white cherry fabric Fresh Picked Quilting Treasures

yellow strawberry fabric Fresh Picked Quilting Treasures

black pear fabric by Robert Kaufman from the USA

Raspberry fabric by Timeless Treasures from the USA

natural-colored fruit apple pear poplin fabric Cosmo Japan

April 28, 2014 0 comment

New Japanese stationery

by modes4u April 26, 2014

The last months have been full of fabrics, but there is good news for all you stationery lovers out there. We also received lots of new kawaii Japanese stationery, mainly letter sets, memo pads and notebooks. There is new stuff by San-X, Mind Wave and Q-Lia. More will be added throughout the next weeks.

orange Rilakkuma bear with donut stamp by San-X

Kutusita Nyanko cats bows ruler set 4 pcs

blue Rilakkuma bear alphabet notepad exercise book

kawaii cat animals mini memo pad book by Mind Wave

dog bulldog sweets animal Letter Set from Japan

kawaii bear hedgehog animal apple Letter Set from Japan

brown dot manga girl notebook exercise book from Japan

kawaii chocolate dot ribbon notebook exercise book

red car vehicle deco tape sticky tape by Mind Wave

kawaii pink and green bear animal mini Note Pad Mind Wave

kawaii yellow panda bear animal mini Note Pad Mind Wave

kawaii manga girl flower ring binder notebook

kawaii colorful bunny apple sticker album book

kawaii panda bear animal Letter Set by Q-Lia

kawaii colorful macaron cake Letter Set by Q-Lia

kawaii cat bear animal notebook exercise book from Japan

alpaca argyle mechanical pencil refill set

kawaii animal alpaca notebook exercise book

die-cut rabbit mini Note Pad by Q-Lia

die-cut panda bear animal mini Note Pad by Q-Lia

April 26, 2014 0 comment

Everything for picnic time

by modes4u April 22, 2014

It’s spring, so grab your food and enjoy it outside in the park. We have everything for a perfect picnic experience, from picnic blankets, bento boxes, thermo bottles, plastic cups, cutlery to other useful accessories like wrapping papers or straps.

green panda bear bento picnic mat picnic blanket

yellow Decole cat with apple Bento Box Lunch Box

cute Sumikkogurashi shy animals Bento Box lunch box

cute pink deer apple Rilakkuma bear Bento Box lunch box

turquoise stars thermo bottle from Japan

kawaii Otogicco Little Red Riding Hood wolf plastic cup

kawaii bear bird spoon cutlery from Japan

green Decole chopsticks bear banana

deer Rilakkuma bear apple Bento Cutlery Set

kawaii Rilakkuma white bear fork cutlery by San-X

deer Rilakkuma brown bear flower apple costume towel San-X

bento food disposable paper bento box sandwich box

panda rabbit hamster bento box rice balls wrapping papers

silicone band bento box set rabbit bear cloverleaf flower

April 22, 2014 0 comment

Hello Kitty 40th Anniversary exhibition in Hong Kong

by modes4u April 20, 2014

There is another super cool Hello Kitty exhibition in Hong Kong at the moment. Windsor House shopping mall in Causeway Bay opened the Windsor House x Hello Kitty’s 40th Anniversary exhibition at the beginning of April. Unfortunately we can’t visit this event ourselves, but we spotted some great pictures on U-Tavel Hong Kong, where you can also find more impressions. Go on a journey through time and see how Hello Kitty developed over the decades. Super kawaii.

The original Hello Kitty design from 1974, picture from U-Tavel Hong Kong

Hello Kitty as a fairy, picture from U-Tavel Hong Kong

Strawberry Hello Kitty from 2012, picture from U-Tavel Hong Kong

Hello Kitty in airplane, picture from U-Tavel Hong Kong

Hello Kitty babies from 1993, picture from U-Tavel Hong Kong

April 20, 2014 1 comment

New echino fabrics in our shop

by modes4u April 15, 2014

If you love echino you will be delighted to hear that we have new echino fabrics from 6 collections overall. The collections echino mosaic and echino gara are available as wide poplin fabrics, the collections echino bee, echino kalmia, echino pipi and echino hide are available as laminates.

wide mosaic echino poplin fabric yellow bird triangle

wide mosaic echino poplin fabric red bird triangle

wide mosaic echino poplin fabric turquoise bird triangle

wide mosaic echino poplin fabric black bird triangle

wide bird stripe echino poplin fabric gara black pink

wide bird stripe echino poplin fabric gara orange yellow

wide bird stripe echino poplin fabric gara pink orange

wide bird stripe echino poplin fabric gara blue yellow

bee echino Canvas laminate fabric black red honeycomb

bee echino Canvas laminate fabric blue green honeycomb

bee echino Canvas laminate fabric purple pink honeycomb

natural kalmia echino Canvas laminate fabric bird bush

blue kalmia echino Canvas laminate fabric bird bush

orange kalmia echino Canvas laminate fabric bird bush

purple kalmia echino Canvas laminate fabric bird bush

pipi echino Canvas laminate fabric beige green flower dot

pipi echino Canvas laminate fabric orange brown flower dot

pipi echino Canvas laminate fabric blue green flower dot

hide echino Canvas laminate fabric lime natural stag forest

hide echino Canvas laminate fabric purple pink stag forest

hide echino Canvas laminate fabric black green stag forest

April 15, 2014 2 comments

New fabric precuts, fat quarters and rolls in our shop

by modes4u April 13, 2014

Lots of new Robert Kaufman precuts are available in our shop now. We got many Fat Quarters, Roll-ups and Charm Packs from the popular collection Spot On. And if you prefer single-colored precuts, there are many solid bundles in lots of colors and formats. Also new: Half-Rolls. Like roll-ups they consist of many long stripes of fabric that are rolled up, but with 20 pieces they are just half the size of their bigger Roll-up siblings.

Fat Quarter fabric bundle dots Shadow Play Robert Kaufman

Fat Quarter fabric bundle Dress Up Gold Robert Kaufman

Fat Quarter fabric bundle dots Summer Luvin’ Robert Kaufman

Half-Roll fabric bundle roll Dress Up Gold Robert Kaufman

Half-Roll fabric roll Primary Perfection Robert Kaufman

Roll-up fabric bundle roll Lipstick red Robert Kaufman

Roll-up fabric bundle roll Coal grey Robert Kaufman

Charm Pack fabric bundle Classic Minis flower Robert Kaufman

Charm Pack fabric bundle Holiday Glitz Gold Robert Kaufman

dots Charm Pack fabric bundle Shadow Play Robert Kaufman

Charm Pack fabric bundle Bluegrass green Robert Kaufman USA

Charm Pack fabric bundle Bahama blue Robert Kaufman USA

fabric bundle Coal grey Ten-Square Robert Kaufman

fabric bundle purple Ten-Square Robert Kaufman

April 13, 2014 0 comment

Mini envelopes for money presents at weddings

by modes4u April 11, 2014

Wedding season starts and you might have heard that one before: Bride and groom do not want fancy wedding gifts but prefer cash. The good thing is you don’t have to worry about what present to get them. But then it gets tricky. How much to give and HOW to hand it over? There are lots of ways to creatively pack or fold money gifts, but if you want to keep it simple, we suggest the following: Get a cute mini envelope with a colorful design, put the money in and you’re done. The little envelopes can be handed over on their own or be part of a bigger present or another form of presentation.

white Rilakkuma bear mini envelopes heart

kawaii ice cream cone mini envelope Japan Polka Dot

kawaii pancakes mini envelope Japan Kamio Polka Dot

kawaii blue cloud animals mini envelope Japan

Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale mini envelope Shinzi Katoh

pink rabbit mini envelope set Shinzi Katoh

Shinzi Katoh animal and strawberry mini envelope

pink plush rabbit mini envelope Set from Japan

April 11, 2014 0 comment

New Halloween and glow in the dark fabrics

by modes4u April 9, 2014

Even though Halloween is still many month away, we just received our first Halloween fabrics for this year by Timeless Treasures. There are some new funny glow in the dark fabrics, which are covered with glow-in-the-dark pigments. Then we also got classic Halloween designs with pumpkins, cats and spiders. However, the most dominant design in this latest delivery is definitely skulls. Many of the skull fabrics are not really the typical Halloween fabrics but also go into folk or Gothic directions.

black glow in the dark skull fabric glow skulls

black glow in the dark ghost fabric glow ghosts

black glow in the dark spider web fabric glow spiderwebs

black glow in the dark skull skeleton fabric

black pumpkin fabric Timeless Treasures Jack-o-Lanterns

vampire fabric Timeless Treasures Vampire Movie Night

orange cat Halloween fabric Timeless Treasures

black cute ghost Halloween fabric Timeless Treasures

white bat animal Halloween fabric Timeless Treasures

Flourish Skull Metallic skull fabric Timeless Treasures

black skull fabric by Timeless Treasures Sugar Skulls

black Folk Art skull fabric by Timeless Treasures

Flourish Skull flower fabric by Timeless Treasures

April 9, 2014 0 comment

Cherry Blossoms for spring

by modes4u April 7, 2014

Cherry blossoms are a super important part of Japanese springtime. We also love the beautiful flowers and are very happy that they can be found on so many products in our shop.

Japanese paper stickers cherry blossom food Happy New Year

cherry blossoms flower mt Washi Masking Tape deco tape

black cherry blossom Asia fabric Robert Kaufman Satsuki

die-cut cherry blossom deco tape sticky tape kawaii

lilac flower fabric Michael Miller Breeze cherry blossom

red cherry blossom flower poplin fabric by Kokka

violet Kokka cherry blossom flower fabric with gold

cute big pink deer charm cherry blossom

April 7, 2014 0 comment

Free stickers for the next 100 shop orders!

by modes4u April 4, 2014

Big surprise for the weekend: The next 100 orders in our online shop modes4u.com will receive a kawaii sticker sheet as a free gift (while stock lasts, picture is for reference only). We have more than 500 different ones in stock right now. All our stickers are from Japan and have super cute or funny designs. Hurry with your order for a chance to get surprise stickers from our huge selection.

The next 100 shop orders will receive a free surprise sticker sheet

April 4, 2014 4 comments