Kinusaiga Craft Kit: Bat & Moon, 8" × 8"

An 8" × 8" kinusaiga kit with the fiddly part already done for you. The foam board arrives grooved and cut for the bat and moon pattern shown, with the double-sided adhesive sheet already on it. Pick the frame you'd rather hang: black, or natural wood.

Kinusaiga is a Japanese fabric art that looks like quilting with none of the sewing. You peel the paper back from one section at a time, use that scrap as a template to cut your fabric, press the piece onto the exposed adhesive, and tuck the edges down into the grooves. The picture fills in one shape at a time.

This one is all triangles. The moon is a ring of them in two oranges and a yellow, and the bat's wings are cut into panels so each one gets its own tuck. Because the shapes are simple and there are a lot of them, it's a good one to do in company, where you pick up a piece, place it, and talk.

Inside the box: the pre-cut board, fabric swatches for every section of the design and then some, a seam ripper for tucking (used flat back down, which is the best tool we've found for it), a shadowbox the finished piece pushes into, and a card with the steps on it.

You'll need scissors. That's the one thing we didn't put in the box, since you already own a pair. A pen is handy too if you'd rather trace a template than cut around it.

No needles, no glue, nothing to plug in. It's an afternoon at the kitchen table, give or take, and it hangs on a wall or sits on a shelf when you're done.