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I think I’m turning Japanese
By Holly | January 21, 2009
Today the first of two shipments from Japan came in. So exciting. I love getting the boxes from Japan. I had a shipment come in from Ichiban Khan yesterday and while I was ordering Japanese things, the shipment was coming from San Fransisco and so doesn’t count.
About two weeks ago I got the itch to do some hookin’. Hookin’ as in crochet, not selling the bod. I sometimes need the extra cash, but yanno, Steve West would probably be a little pissed if I decided to make it on my back. Unless it was a significant amount of cash, probably. The world may never know. So I get the urge to crochet and go looking around Ravelry to see what people are doing. Now, I won’t crochet garments or anything but I’ll do dishcloths and the like. So I am looking around and I come across tawashi. Hmmm…tawashi. Bright, colorful, cute dishcloths/scrubbers. Seriously. I was intrigued. I poked around a little more and discovered that the Japanese have special anti-microbial, scratchy acrylic that they use for tawashi. Damn. I wanted in for sure. So then I went to Etsy and checked out ichigonopantsu’s shop. There I ended up ordering 12 skeins of yarn (she takes special orders!), 3 books, stickers, stationary and a stamp. Why can’t I resist the cute? It’s not just any cute either. It’s the Japanese cute. I am not a cute person nor do I play a cute person on T.V. but I cannot. resist. So here we go. If I am absent I am off crocheting my way to tawashi glory.
Topics: Crochet, Tawashi, \m/ | 2 Comments »
My girlie would love this! I love it, too! If I wasn’t already over the top (in terms of yarn and UFOs), I’d be making tawashi, too. Something to look forward too, I guess.
Posted by: Celia on January 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 pmOh, hell! None of that has stopped me. I need to be crocheting tawashi like I need a hole in the head. lol I keep telling myself it’s useful.
Posted by: Holly on January 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm