It’s been a long time since my last post but I wanted to let you know it’s because I’ve been so busy, which is good news. Kimono silk bundles and sashiko books will be in stock this month as promised, along with updates to my last sashiko project and a new one I’ve been working…
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Paper thoughts
Wow! I got a call yesterday from a reader of Altered Couture magazine. Apparently one of my brilliant customers, Shirley Goff, had an article published within that involved some of my fabrics used in her Basho Coat project. I can’t wait to see it! I will be ordering copies of the magazine to sell in…
The early bird gets… to wait.
Since moving in with my family in October I’ve had to adjust to certain changes such as scheduling time in the kitchen, among other things. It’s unsettling for all of us to change our routines for one another, but we manage. Since I’ve let my business drift for the past few months it’s been nagging…
And…. we’re back!
After slogging throug the past few months since the move and my mother’s death, it’s time to get back to business. I’m still missing much of my research library (hidden somewhere in the depths of my storage locker), but I’ve really missed working and am excited to be getting down to it again. On the…
January sale details
Starting this month I will be offering different specials in the Etsy shop every month. For January all indigo cotton yukata fabrics are marked down by 25%. It’s raining today, otherwise I’d be outside taking photos of the dozens of vintage kimono I have in stock. Losing the photo set up I had back in…
Happy Gregorian New Year
Personally, I’m holding off the big New Year celebrations until Chinese New Year on January 26, 2009. Once the Year of the Rat is over, I’ll breathe a sigh of relief. January 1 also marks the one year anniversary of this blog. One year ago my life was simpler and I had an idea of…
Holiday Sale now in progress
I’ve been sitting here feeling blue for a while, so I figured it was time to join the real world a bit and have a sale for all you lovely people. Here are the details: The sale prices listed in my Etsy shop are valid until January 1, 2009. I’m not going to be exact…
Sale starts today through October 3
It’s autumn and time to clear out some of my old fabric stock so I can bring in new fabrics and generally freshen up the shop. If you are on my mailing list, you should be getting a postcard mentioning the sale today or this weekend. Not on the list? Drop me an email and…
Sashiko project begins at last.
So here it is. A little sampler project for getting started in sashiko, but without the pre-printed kit. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Olympus kits are wonderful, but I’m a coloring-outside-the-lines kind of person, and maybe you are too. The kit contains four pieces of indigo yukata cotton with designs of iris, origami…
Velvet reels and spinning wheels
It’s always a bit of a race to score a treasury on Etsy. In the past I’d let them go by without much of a thought. Leave it to others to put together lists of interesting items that might, if they were very well put together, end up on the Etsy main page. Me? Couldn’t…
Welcome September
Kumoricon was fantastic! Thank you to all of you who came by to say hello, new friends and old. It was great to meet you, dress you, and share kimono culture with you. I hope we meet again at Sakura-Con in April 2009! Lots and lots of changes have been happening here at Chez Kimono,…
For a good cause – AIDS Walk ’08
A friend of mine will be walking in the San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 20, 2008. Since I can’t be there myself, I will donate 50% of the sale of these scarves to sponsor him. I’ll be busy fringing more this weekend, but here are the first two to get you thinking about cool…
A love for both the common fiber and the extraordinary textile @KimonoMomo 