Craftiness at Daiso January 8, 2007
This Sunday my friends and I traveled to the new Daiso Japan store in Daly City (as mentioned recently on the Craft: blog). It is the Japanese equivalent of a dollar store (100 yen) where almost all items are $1.50. I got a ton of stuff, especially cute stationery with poorly translated phrases. I also grabbed a few crafty items.
Cork tiles, laundry bags for washing fleece, carving tools, origami paper
The most exciting are the cork-covered tiles. These are supposed to be some kind of padded floor tile, but mine will be assembled and used a blocking board (I think i first read about this on the Yarn Harlot’s blog). They can be assembled in a square for sweaters, or a long line for scarves. The cork is a bit absorbent, and the tiles are foamy and padded - perfect for sticking in pins. I put it to work immediately since My So Called Scarf was in need of some blocking.
and when it is done I can just stack up the tiles and put them away. Not a bad blocking board for less than $15, and it is modular!
good idea! wish we had a store like that here. a friend visited Japan last year and brought me back some Japanese knitting needles, but a whole store would be great.
yay! you got some great stuff there too! I love the blocking board idea.
Oh, wow, what a great idea! Way better than my spaceboard…
What a great blocking board!!
Friggin\’ awesome idea!!! And your MSCS looks great. There is a store like that I like to visit in DC, but I haven\’t been there in a while.
Wow I wish I had gone… oh wait I did and it was super cool. I can’t believe that I didn’t see most of the stuff you got. That place was just so large and overwelming.
Decided not to go to rubios again though. made me feel ill.
I just tried to show Pablo his picture on your blog but he didn’t seem that interested. He would much rathter sit on my laptop bag.
After he sat on virtually all the new cushions I bought at Daiso when I first put them on and hasn’t paid attention to them since. He is a very odd cat.
Don’t you just love those stores. It’s what made me started knitting again.
Okay, I just visited Daiso and I think it might be the eighth wonder of the world. I couldn’t find those awesome cork boards, I think since your post, every SF Bay crafter has visited the store and bought them out. I did score awesome amounts of stationary, stickers, and paintbrushes for my ceramic work. I can’t imagine what I’ll come home with next.
Thanks for the heads up about Daiso.