makewrite.com has a great list of japanese craft terms, and shows how to use the terms for searching amazon.co.jp with a new booksearch tool.
funny thing is, most japanese people don’t know these terms. one evening, i was crocheting a small bear, and a woman asked what i was doing. i told her あみぐるみ (amigurumi). […]
the other evening, i was struggling with my homework. i haven`t been in school in so long, i`m not used to it. i`m not used to have to actually practice practice practice. it’s not that it’s hard, practice is agonizingly boring. it’s painfully boring, it’s phenomenologically, massively, excruciatingly boring. boring-boring-boring. ok. i`ll stop now!
i’m […]
i have found a teacher!
this is very exciting, since i have been self-teaching for a while, and not sure if all the pieces are fitting in, and not sure what i know and don’t know. i got a trial lesson yesterday, for about 1.5 hours.
i think she was pretty much establishing what i knew and […]
i’m loving japan. today’s reason is because of the preponderance of incredibly lovely crafts here. and they have a special word for making little animals out of balls of wool:
あみぐるみが大好きです。
あみぐるみがだいすきです
amigurumi ga dai suki desu
i really like crocheted stuffed animals.
amigurumi = crocheted stuffed animals, usually made in the round!
dai = BIG
suki desu = […]