This year has been a fun year of Japanese fabric bundles for the Japanese Colour Club! Each month, I’ve been selecting, cutting and sending fat quarter and fat eighth bundles of 6 delicious Japanese prints around the world.
As you can see, they’re mostly a mixture of blenders with the occasional more colourful print! And I will be doing it all again in 2015.
The 2015 club will be very similar to 2014’s set up. Here’s the basic lowdown:
– rainbow order of colours (November is low-volume and December is kawaii/novelty)
– 6 print-bundles available in fat quarter or fat eighth bundles
– PayPal requests sent on the 5th of every month
– one reminder email sent on the 12th
– bundles shipped between the 17-20th
The biggest difference is a slight price increase. Earlier this year, Japan raised it’s consumption tax (aka service tax, GST, whatever your country calls it!). This effects everything from the fabric and postage, and even the little things like envelopes, bags, printer ink, etc. This year I have absorbed those added costs, but for 2015, the fat quarter bundles will now be 3200 yen and the fat eighth bundles 2200 yen. But guess what?? That price INCLUDES shipping worldwide! Wherever you live, those prices include the shipping price.
Please note – I am not a big business at all, and this is something I’ve chosen to do to help spread the Japanese fabric love. So I buy fabric amounts carefully according to the number of subscribers and I will often buy fabric in advance if I find awesome prints for a future month’s colour theme. As a result, please note that there is a minimum of a 6 month commitment. Thank you for your understanding!
Shopping for these fabrics is one of the highlights of my month! Picking and choosing, mixing and matching… I aim to get a mix of lighter and darker prints, a range of scales like from tiny deer to large damasks. There will even be the occasional heavier cotton print – sometimes linen/cotton blends, other times just a thicker cotton. These are so great for using on special little projects like bags or pouches! And I have been known to celebrate some months with a little bit of a bonus strip of fabric to wrap it all up in love 😉
You can reserve your place right now for a fat quarter bundle or a fat eighth bundle subscription! Your first invoice will be sent January 5th.
Wendy says
HI Alyce. It looks so tempting that I’ve signed up already. I’ve had to use my other email address because it’s the one linked to my paypal account, but it’s me from Wellington, NZ. Looking forward to it already.
Carla says
Give me 24 hours to invent a way that I can join and not feel guilty about breaking my self-imposed fabric diet, and I am in. I need a loophole! What if I don’t open the parcels but save them for the end of the diet? Hmmm.
Teje says
Hi Alyce! Looks and sounds so exciting! What about the Shipping cost? Could you look how much the monthly bundle would be when shipped to GREECE. x Teje
Anita says
I’m going to share this on my blog. I hope it’s okay if I use your graphic? If not, please let me know and I’ll take it down.
Alyce says
Of course, go ahead, thank you!
Zehrina says
Hi Alyce,
I’m little bit late but is there any chance fat quarter bundle is available?
Thanks
Wendy says
Hi there Alyce,
My parcel of January, February and March’s fabrics arrived in the post today…what a thrill. A fabulous surprise to come home to. Thank you for your fabric choices…looking forward already to next month’s ‘greens’.
Best wishes
Wendy