I received a very exciting email on Wednesday – Ms Molli Sparkles was coming to Tokyo on Friday and would I like to go fabric shopping on Saturday? Would I?! We arranged a time and place at Shibuya, and where else but the world’s busiest scramble crossing! Nice and iconic and easy to find, but at 10am on a Saturday morning it’s not that busy. Note: I will write up a full proper review of the places we visited later, today’s all about the fabric, baby! Also, I arrived home at sunset and raced to take these photos so I could blog about them with Joshua, so pardon the inside night light!
I used Tokyo Craft Guide’s Shibuya Craft Guide to lead the way around Shibuya, where we each picked up some washi and stationery for Joshua.
We then headed to Shinjuku’s Yuzaway, which was a bit of a bust and not as good as my local one, however we both found some bits and pieces that pleased us! I grabbed a metre of each of these – a Munsell floral cotton and a Kokka linen/cotton alphabet blend – for $6/metre equivalent.
And then because it was only 12:30, we headed to Nippori, home of the famous Nippori Textile Town! One long street full of fabric and trim stores. I picked up these traditional print cottons – $1.60 a fat quarter. The top three are theoretically for my Japanese Sampler Quilt that has not been worked on in about a year, and the bottom two cherry blossom prints just feed my cherry blossom fabric addiction.
Then we found Tomato – THE place to go in Nippori! See that pile of Nursery Versery and Ruby Star Sparkle? $30 equivalent for 7m of it all. Yep! Nursery Versery was $4 a meter – I picked up a metre each of the green, purple and pink and 2m of the cheater print and then 2m of the Ruby Star Sparkle for $6/m. Sah-weeet!
Now, go check out Joshua’s side of the story!!
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DeborahGun says
Ooo – how exciting 🙂 Will wait to see if any of this makes it into your shop 🙂
Ms Midge says
Ooooohhhhhh! My Tokyo BFF messaged me the other day to say that her fabric friend said it was the time to buy fabric due to the sales and did I want anything? But I had no idea. Maybe I just need to send her and get whatever she can grab! lol. Sounds like a great day!
Frances says
Nusery Versery for $4/m? That is coco bananas! and significantly less than wholesale price. Nice shopping! And thank you so much for mentioning our Shibuya guide. Did you make it to Marunan? I think today was their last day of business.
Yvette @ Little Bento Blog says
BEEN THERE!!!!! I sat where Bill Murray sat in lost in translation!!
*sigh* jealous of your trek… must convince hubby we need to go to Japan… after our Europe trip in a months time
xxx
Molli Sparkles says
Seriously, fabric was half the price of one of our lunches. I want to live in this world forever!
Flying Blind says
Glad you lovelies had such a great shopping trip xxx
Yvonne Campbell says
I wish I could pop on over to Japan. I am in love with all those fabrics!
Jeneta says
Oh boy – that is some great shopping!! LOVE the Nursery Versery. I’m heading over to Josh’s website to read his version!
Amy @ Cloud CouCou Crafts says
Sounds like a fab shopping trip. Love those cherry blossom prints, the colours are just gorgeous!
Serena @ Sewgiving says
Oh my goodness, looks like you both shopped up a storm!
Jeifner says
Oooh, lucky you and Japan! Such pretty fabric 🙂