News item 1: Wow, I just received my 1000th comment - how exciting! Amidst all the exciting excitement, I decided immediately to send my 1000th comment maker a special present (don't know what it is yet, but I'll find something in my overflowing stash at home!!!) So, the 1000th Pinku comment maker is Kimberli!!!!
It was great to meet Kimberli a couple of weeks ago when she popped into our SNB gathering!! Originally from New York, Kimberli was visiting Japan on business.Thanks for coming to see us!
News item 2: I bought a Stitch-It Kit by Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching fame. You see I was buying a book for a friend on Amazon Japan, but you need to spend 1500 yen to get free shipping, so I just HAD to buy something to take us over the 1500 yen mark. Out of everything on my wishlist - this was one of the few things that could be delivered within 24 hours.....It arrived today and it is very cute. Am looking forward to doing some stitching this weekend. Have been desperate to embroider some t-shirts forever.
News item 3: I have been getting quite a few emails about yarn stores in Tokyo, and actually the Tokyo Stitch + Bitch has put together a list of yarn stores that we visit most often. Today I made it into an excel file and plan to make it available somewhere on this page. So if you want check it out by clicking here to download the Excel file !!
News item 4: I have deleted the flower swap blog, but have saved all the photos of finished pins which I plan to put up on Pinku soon. For some reason I can't upload the photos right now, but hopefully Typepad will be working later!! I know that some people haven't heard from your swap partners - I am so sorry! Email me if you still haven't received your flower and I will send out a group reminder to those people!! If you haven't made your pin and sent it, then get to it! Otherwise we'll have to list the names of the people here on Pinku who don't follow through with their Swap obligations!!!
Thanks for the excel list! I am drooling after reading the descriptions of all those stores. DAMNED INAKA!! Do you, or does anyone you know, have any similar recommendations in Osaka? I go shopping there every once and a while, so I really need to find the good yarn spots!
Posted by: molly | February 17, 2005 at 06:04 PM
ooooh, congrats on the big 1000! pinku rocks!
Posted by: martine | February 17, 2005 at 11:44 PM
Wow! That's a lot of comments!
(I wonder how many I have...hmm.)
Posted by: frecklegirl | February 18, 2005 at 03:30 AM
Doesn't outing non-flower making people on your blog seem a little cruel? What if there's a good reason? Where's your compassion? Aren't you married now? Doesn't that make you a more understanding person?
Love Mok
Posted by: mock | February 18, 2005 at 10:42 AM
Dearest brother, I wouldn't really out anyone on my blog - it's all about pink and love!!! That was just a loving reminder that some people are sad because they are flower pin-less and that they need some flower love!!
Posted by: kat | February 18, 2005 at 11:12 AM
Great site and thanks for the excel file!
Posted by: Angel | June 20, 2005 at 02:18 PM
I have not been able to download the Excel file yet but I am so excited to have found such a list. ONe of my best buddies lives in Tokyo and I want to be sure to have a list of Yarn shops to visit the next time I am in Japan. I would love to have a comprehensive list for the whole country etc. Does anyone know if such a thing exsists? How would I ask in Japanese about the whereabouts of a yarn shop? How would I look it up in a phone book or on the internet once I arrive. My friend is married to a Japanese man who could help us but I am betting he isn't much of a knitter himself and I would need to provide some direction if I wanted him to help me navigate.
Posted by: Noelle McCullough | November 15, 2005 at 01:04 PM
yeah, i'm looking for a yarn shop closer to me in Kamakura...does anyone know of any?
Posted by: Tiffany | January 06, 2006 at 04:14 PM
I'm going to Japan in March for my sister's wedding-butI would like to find some kind of handspinning stuff while I'm there--I'm going to be in Tokyo,Osaka and Kyoto does anyone have any ideas?
Posted by: Kristen | January 27, 2006 at 12:48 PM
Just to let you know the Mother Earth Yarn store in Minami-Azabu no longers exists. I just went there today and there is another store called Flower there...would anyone happen to know where the store went?
Posted by: Kim | September 11, 2007 at 06:57 PM