July 18, 2009
Superbuzzy
Today, at the last minute, my family decided to go to the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. Superbuzzy was there! And it's not too late if you want to check it out. They'll be there tomorrow too. :)
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December 11, 2007
Libraries
library for six and a half stitches
library and associated post for Buzzville
library for A Ervilha cor de Rosa
library for Knitting-Sushi in AZ
library for girlreaction
library and library post for Croque-choux
library for Craftapalooza
library post 1 and post 2 for Half Baked
knitting/crochet, prince of knitting, embroidery and softies, and English Ondori libraries for Knit Buddies
library for Angry Chicken
library for candlemomo
library post for Blah, Blah, Blahhhg
library for PuchiMaiko
library category for Molly Chicken
library post for Crafty Snargle
library for Wise Craft
library for afternoons & coffeespoons
library for small hands
library for disdressed
library for being crafty
library for miss pompon
library for movinghands
library for keymistress
library for puchitomato
toy book library and bag books library for Red Instead
library category for crafty mcgee
library set for ask anke
library for Poohza's Ponderings
library for Little Crown
library for Klucking Bear
library for bees and blue fences
library for thistletown
library for Wishing On Clovers
library for kittycatalina
library for Bamboo Sticks
library for Two Little Banshees
library for mk carroll
library for material mama
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October 02, 2007
Saucylouise sale
Saucylouise is having a sale until October 15. 10% off almost everything! Besides a great book selection, she carries some lovely Japanese craft supplies. She's in Japan, but her prices and shipping are quite reasonable.
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December 01, 2006
Craft submissions
Craft is looking for submissions for their next issue, which will be devoted to Japanese crafts! I would sure love to see some of my Crafting Japanese contributers in print!
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October 11, 2006
message from Portland Kinokuniya
For those of you looking for how to subscribe to Japanese magazines, here's a message from the Portland Kinokuniya store:
Kinokuniya Bookstores Portland Store carries a lot of Japanese craft books that are shown on the site. We also carry Japanese craft magazines such as Oshare Kobo, Cotton Time, Patchwork Tsu-shin, and Quilt Japan, and more. You can buy a specific issue of a magazine or subscribe to it if you like. You can get a 5% discount for six month subscription or 15% discount for one year subscription (discount for subscription depends on magazines) If you know an ISBN number of a book, you can order it by phone (503-641-6240), by fax (503-643-1059), by e-mail (portland@kinokuniya.com) or online much faster. Come and see our great selection of Japanese craft books or visit our web site www.kinokuniya.com.
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July 06, 2006
Little Clover Garden
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Hamanaka
Hamanaka, some sort of crafting supply site, has a bunch of free patterns. Click the link for "How to Challenge" for patterns and tutorials, like these felting ideas, including a nifty method for felting small balls. Also, clever sweater wrap thing, felted corsages, i-cord flowers, and a bunch of knitting and crochet.
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July 01, 2006
For the Love of Yarn
For the Love of Yarn has a free turtle pattern by Half Baked, in English and French
and a snail by Roxycraft, who has a bunch of other patterns at her site.
Posted by maitreya at 03:20 PM | Comments (0)
May 15, 2006
Crafting in Japanese on Flickr
crafting in Japanese group on Flickr. I've gotten a few inquiries about starting a Flickr group like this, so thanks to whoever did it!
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May 04, 2006
YesAsia deal
YesAsia is offering free shipping worldwide on orders of $25 until the end of June!
(An update is coming soon, I promise.)
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March 02, 2006
omura
All sorts of random patterns at omura. Beading, amigurumi, papercraft, you name it.
amigurumi winged bug and another bug by Look at my photos, from this free pattern (in Japanese, but with charts)
stag beetle by Wendy's Intertwinement
mushroom amigurumi instructions
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December 15, 2005
We Love Amigurumi
Nice LJ community devoted to amigurumi: We Love Amigurumi.
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July 30, 2005
Amigurumi-Along
Amigurumi-Along is a group weblog for posting amigurumi projects. Besides the finished creatures, they have links to free patterns and other amigurumi sites.
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