{"id":92,"date":"2006-03-29T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T04:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/testblog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:33:06","slug":"quick-note-for-sydney-amigurumi-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/quick-note-for-sydney-amigurumi-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"quick note for Sydney amigurumi fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/mag01.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinokuniya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kinokuniya<\/a> Sydney today (for Japanese language study purposes ONLY &#8230; not).  I noticed they currently have 3 &#8211; 4 rather nice amigurumi books in stock.  The books are around the $30 AUD mark, a couple of copies of some.  I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve seen most of the books online, nonetheless, they are good looking and have  clear photo instructions.<\/p>\n<p>So, did I buy some amigurumi books?  Umm, no.   Why not, I hear you ask?  Well, several reasons. There&#8217;s a definite upper limit to the amount of cuteness I can handle.  Sure, I like cute stuff, but there&#8217;s a point at which the head is just too big, too distorted.  I think my limit is rather lower than other people who are interested in &#8220;crafting Japanese&#8221;.  (By the way, there&#8217;s an interesting post on that phenomenon <a href=\"http:\/\/making.nearlythere.com\/2006\/02\/20\/crafting-japanese-western-revision\/' target=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).  Also I&#8217;m rather enjoying figuring it out for myself, and thinking about exactly how I want MY amigurumi to look.  And I&#8217;m being a bit careful with money.<\/p>\n<p>What I did buy was a magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tezukuritown.com\/shop\/default.php?pgn=book_00_countrycraft_49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;country craft&#8221; 2006 Spring<\/a> edition.  I noticed a lot of (French??) country style inspired magazines actually. Wonder why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited Kinokuniya Sydney today (for Japanese language study purposes ONLY &#8230; not). I noticed they currently have 3 &#8211; 4 rather nice amigurumi books in stock. The books are around the $30 AUD mark, a couple of copies of some. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve seen most of the books online, nonetheless, they are good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amigurumi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}