Spreading the love of quilling 2013

In an effort to spread the love of quilling, we had took part in two exciting events this December!

The first one is a free quilling workshop for children, jointly organised by PnQ and Seedling Learning Centre, on the 1st of Dec. Altogether there were 20 plus children participants. Initially the parents were there to assist heir younger children, but ended up they themselves also had fun quilling. We each made a poinsettia card and a simple Christmas tree tag.

One of the kid's work. Photo courtesy of Jessie.

The second event is a quillers-meet-up which was held on the 7th. We had fun quilling and meeting other quillers. We also had a Christmas card exchange session. Since everyone enjoyed it, so we probably will meet quarterly in future.

SBC Biodiversity Day

We were invited to take part in Sarawak Biodiversity Centre (SBC) Biodiversity Day on 18th and 19th last month in which we were given a booth for exhibition. There was also a make-and-take session using recycled strips for the public to participate and experience the fun of quilling. And now let the photos do the talking.

Thanks again to SBC for giving us a chance to be part of the wonderful event and special credits go to Eunice, Gilbert, Lee Sze, Aisha and SBC staffs at the origami/quilling booth. And thanks to all who dropped by at our booth! Love you all!

Some Updates

Hi peeps!

Just an exciting news to share! We were up on another local newspaper -See Hua Daily last Sunday. Yes, a whole FULL COLOUR page! So happy!!!

 

Our sincerest thanks to reporter PY for putting up a nice quilling story for us!

And next we are delighted to tell everyone that besides our usual quilling crafts and handmade cards, we are introducing handbound books to our lines of handcrafted products.

A6 size coptic binding

A5 size coptic binding + headbands

A4 size customized wedding guestbook

A6 size Japanese stab binding

A5 size coptic binding sketchbook

P/s: Don't forget we sell Lake City Craft's quilling supplies and Technique Tuesday clear stamps too. 

Our cards were featured!

Our Christmas handmade cards were featured in the local Chinese newspaper -International Times dated 15th December! Can you spot our quilling cards?

Our Booth at Bloom Bazaar 5

Sorry for the late post about Bloom Bazaar 5 - Xmas edition at Hills Shopping Mall. We were so tired after the 2-days-10am-to-10pm bazaar. This is our first time taking part in a bazaar. It was a wonderful experience! Not only we get to meet old friends and make new friends who share the passion of crafting, we also get to explain about our crafts and demo 'face-to-face' to shoppers who dropped by at our booth. And so now, if you would, let the pictures do the talking...

Packing things up for the bazaar

Our Day 1 booth setup

Our Day 2 booth setup

We are sharing our booth with Tape Cottage- a friendly and helpful crafter friend!

Customers who came by our booth 

 

 

 And some of our handmade cards

Demo at Popular Tun Jugah

We did a demo and sharing session at Popular Tun Jugah yesterday. We started with a presentation entitled 'Quilling: ancient craft, modern art' and followed by demo on how to quill. We thanked all who turned up to support us. We also thanked Popular Tun Jugah for the invitation to share our love for quilling.

Flyer of events held at Popular in the month of Feb, ours were scheduled on the 25th

What is quilling? Quilling is the use of paper strips that are rolled and shaped to form intricate designs.

Appreciating quilling artwork

How to use a slotted tool

Give it a try! Everyone can quill!

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Spreading the love for quilling

At Paper N Quill we believe that quilling is an art/craft for everybody regardless your age and gender (thus our slogan 'Everyone can quill'). We work towards introducing this lovely, easy and fun (plus relatively inexpensive) art to our local community here in Kuching. Perhaps it is for this good intention that we were given opportunities by our local media to talk and share about the art of quilling.

Our first appearance to intro about quilling was with Red Fm 91.9. We did a live interview on air in Mandarin about the brief history of quilling, basic tools needed and also Paper N Quill's quilling story. It was an enjoyable one hour interview with the DJ Celine. In fact it's more like a merry chat between friends ^_^

Waiting outside the broadcast room for our show at 9am

Live on Red Fm 91.9

Our second appearance was on local newspaper International Times 国际时报 today. We were featured with a full page coverage. The interview was actually conducted weeks ago. We demonstrated how to D.I.Y a simple flower pattern as well as sharing on the history and applications of quilling in daily life. The article was written in a clear and easy-to-understand manner with lots of colourful pictures. Special credits go to the author/reporter Hui Meng. ^_^

Title of article: The art of quilling - it all begins from coils...

Click on this link to read further-->  http://www.intimes.com.my/fukang/fashion/fashionpic/111023fashion.pdf

Everyone can quill! 

P/s: We will be conducting an adult quilling beginner class in Mandarin this coming November on the 6th. If you are interested, you could check it out here -->http://quillpaper.blogspot.com/2011/10/quilling-beginner-class.html  Contact us at papernquill@gmail.com