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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Many thanks to family, friends and readers who have expressed concern. Down here in Aichi we’re about 600km from the epicenter of the magnitude 9 quake that struck Japan on Friday. We certainly felt it – by the time the main tremor rolled down to Nagoya it was still about magnitude 4, and we experienced [...]  Kirigami derives from the Japanese words ‘kiri’ – to cut, and ‘kami’ – paper. If you ever made a paper snowflake in primary school, you’ve done kirigami! Today, I’ll show you how to make an elegant butterfly paper sculpture. You’ll need: Paper – in general, the more intricate your design, the thinner paper you should [...] Today, let’s finish up our series on designing your own amigurumi, by combining the techniques we’ve learned so far. Of course, many simple amigurumi patterns can be improvised on the fly, but working out the outline of a pattern beforehand can save you having to rip out and redo parts of your design, and ensure [...] I hope you enjoyed our first two amigurumi design tutorials, where we learned how to calculate an amigurumi pattern, and how to add shaping to your amigurumi. Today, we’ll look at a couple of techniques for joining and splitting tubes, so that you can add limbs and appendages without sewing. If you want limbs to [...] Japanese beadwork uses two main techniques to make 3d objects from beads, popular as charms, pendants, and rings. Hachinoji-ami, named because the thread forms figure eights (hachi=eight), is closely related to Right Angle Weave. Hana-ami (flower weave) is a form of triangular weave used to make bead flowers and to start and finish spherical or [...] Back in April, I showed you how to make round-petaled kanzashi flowers. Kanzashi are formal hair accessories often worn with kimono. Hana-kanzashi, or flowers, are a popular motif, often made by tsumami – folding small squares of fabric. Today I’d like to show you how to make pointed petals, which can be sewn together to [...] ‘Eco craft’, in Japan, refers to a kind of recycled paper tape, which is like several strands of strong paper twine, bonded together into a flat ribbon with more paper. Strong and lightweight, it’s mostly used to make baskets and bags. Today, I’ll show you how to weave this small shallow basket. You can get [...] Kusudama are origami flower balls – technically they don’t need to be flowers but any polygonal orgami model, but traditionally these balls were made from actual flowers. The flowers used were medicinal herbs, hence the name kusudama, which is a portmanteau of kusuri (medicine) and dama (ball). Over time, people began making models of these [...] Though there are now a huge number of English-language amigurumi patterns available, many people would like to be able to work from original Japanese patterns – either online, or from Japanese craft books. The good news is that unlike English crochet patterns, Japanese patterns are highly standardised – and almost always include a chart. Once [...] A little while ago we looked at the first steps of how to design an amigurumi. We learned how to break down a sketch into simple shapes and how to translate that into a pattern. Today I’d like to show you how to add an extra dimension to your designs, adding curves using tall-row shaping. [...] |
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