{"id":119,"date":"2007-06-18T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/new-japanese-craft-books\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:16:59","slug":"new-japanese-craft-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/new-japanese-craft-books\/","title":{"rendered":"new japanese craft books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/43955293@N00\/552801441\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding-right:20px\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1330\/552801441_a4a23d6cf8_o.jpg\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/craftyginger.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kari<\/a> and I had a great time in Chicago. Kari made this lovely soft fleece tree scarf for me, accessorized with a Crafty Ginger <a href=\"https:\/\/craftyginger.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tsumami kanzashi flower snap<\/a> &#8211; yay! She also gave me some gorgeous grey fuzzy yarn, which I know I&#8217;ll be able to make good use of \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>We went to the Sanseido bookstore in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitsuwa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitsuwa Japanese marketplace <\/a>. If you&#8217;re in Chicago I highly recommend you check it out if you love Japanese craft books (and who doesn&#8217;t?) &#8211; they had a wide selection and the prices were very reasonable. I managed to restrict myself to buying three:<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/japanesebk2_front.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/japanesebk2_sample.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>ISBN 9784529039017<\/strong> (cute stuffed toy patterns)<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/japanesebk3_front.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/japanesebk3_sample.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>ISBN 4277490239<\/strong> (crochet motifs)<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/japanesebk4_front.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/japanesebk4_sample.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>ISBN 9784277490405<\/strong> (pretty patchwork)<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful, inspirational books! And all 3 for only $20 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kari and I had a great time in Chicago. Kari made this lovely soft fleece tree scarf for me, accessorized with a Crafty Ginger tsumami kanzashi flower snap &#8211; yay! She also gave me some gorgeous grey fuzzy yarn, which I know I&#8217;ll be able to make good use of \ud83d\ude09 We went to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23275,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/23275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}