March 3rd, 2010
Cleaning up and organising my Xmarks, I found these craft projects I bookmarked:
More web surfing led me to this brilliant tutorial series on how to sew from Japanese craft books by label-free. Also, you have to check out these mad Alice in Wonderland craft projects that you can download for FREE! The shrink charms and cupcake toppers are my favourite.
Picture from Disney Family.com
Can’t wait for Alice in Wonderland to screen in Beijing!
Tags: Alice in Wonderland, capsule, cupcake, diorama, disney, download, fabric, nintendo, paper, papercraft, shrinky dink, switchplate
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January 25th, 2010
Beijing Wansha Yarn Shop
A quick Google search led me to blogs (here, here and here) that all recommended Wansha. As I was staying in the Wangfujing area before and had walked past this yarn shop, I didn’t think much of it and presumed that such shops were aplenty in China, I was wrong.
Directions
Take the subway on line 5 to Dengshikou station, exit A. Turn left and keep walking till you see Mona Lisa bridal shop, turn left again and Wansha is a couple of stores on your left. Takes about 5 minutes from the station.
毛巾线
I bought 2 skeins of ‘towel yarn’ which costs 42RMB, cheap! I love how quickly I could complete a scarf with bulky yarn and bigger needles. Saw another customer buying some size 8 wooden needles which only cost 3RMB but I thought they were of really poor quality and they had to look for straight needles from the batch.
I’m using handmade hardwood needles that I bought from Pertineer on Etsy. A pity she’s not selling them anymore.
Tags: beijing, directions, knitting, knitting needles, Shop, subway, train station, yarn
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January 20th, 2010
Stitch
Found this font by Maniackers when I was researching for a logo design.
Tags: font, Maniackers, stitch
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