Fabric gift

It’s been many years since I’ve been to Japan, and right now the only thing I miss about that coun­try, pretty much, is the oppor­tu­nity for fab­ric shop­ping. Well, fab­ric and the food. Online fab­ric shops are won­der­ful, and they sup­ply me with most that I need, but occa­sion­ally I won­der what I’m miss­ing by not being there in person.

So every time my mother — who also lives in Aus­tralia — vis­its Japan, I beg her to please go fab­ric shop­ping on my behalf. She’s always a lit­tle hes­i­tant at first, say­ing she doesn’t know what I want, but I tell her that it’s okay to choose what she likes. Our tastes are dif­fer­ent, but not so dif­fer­ent that I wouldn’t like what she chooses. Actu­ally, I love the ele­ment of surprise.

And this is the pile of fab­rics my mother bought for me in Janurary.

Wow! There is so. much. fab­ric. Some are can­vas and oth­ers are more lightweight. I’ve seen some of them on online shops, but most of them are new to me — which just con­firms my sus­pi­cion that I am miss­ing out by not being in Japan.

These are some of my favorites.

Black cat fabric

Just look­ing through these fab­rics is inspir­ing me to make things. Though they’ll have to be small things, because most of them are one meter or less in quan­tity. But I love that chal­lenge as well. The only thing is I might not have the courage to cut into some of these fab­rics, let alone sell them, know­ing there is only so little.….

These fab­rics are a gift for my upcom­ing birth­day. Lucky me! Thanks Midori! It’s nice to have such a lovely mother.