{"product_id":"kinusaiga-craft-kit-chunky-brown-bear-8-8","title":"Kinusaiga Craft Kit: Chunky Brown Bear, 8\" × 8\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 8\" × 8\" kinusaiga kit, start to finish. The chunky brown bear pattern comes printed on the adhesive sheet, already mounted on the foam board. Step one is cutting the grooves along those lines with the small craft knife we put in the box, and the card walks you through it. Pick the frame you'd rather hang: black, or natural wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne promise from you:\u003c\/strong\u003e use the fabric included and make it your own, don't try to match the photo here. Deal?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKinusaiga is a Japanese fabric art that looks like quilting with none of the sewing. Once the grooves are cut, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a bear at the end of a very good salmon run. If you spent the first week of October watching bear cams and voting for the roundest bear in Alaska, you already know the look: the cheeks, the neck that's given up, the belly that arrives before the rest of the bear does. It's all here in caramel and chocolate prints, with a cream muzzle and a pine forest behind. The face goes together quickly, since the muzzle is only a few shapes and a black nose, and the body is where you get to play with every brown in the box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside the box:\u003c\/strong\u003e the printed board, a small craft knife for the grooves, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the fabric:\u003c\/strong\u003e yours will be close to what's pictured, and the colors will be very close, but the exact prints and the mix change with what we can keep in stock, so the photo is the idea rather than a promise. We pack extra swatches so you can make it your own, and no two kits come out quite the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou'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. The craft knife is sharp, so if kids are at the table the cutting is the grown-up's step.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWant another design? Here are \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/kinusaiga-kits\"\u003eall our kinusaiga kits\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Start Small Farms","offers":[{"title":"Natural Wood","offer_id":67653275287715,"sku":"SSF-CK-KINUSAIGA-BRBEAR-8X8-NAT","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black","offer_id":67653275320483,"sku":"SSF-CK-KINUSAIGA-BRBEAR-8X8-BLK","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/8497\/5523\/files\/kinusaiga-8x8-chunky-brown-bear.jpg?v=1791644451","url":"https:\/\/startsmallfarms.com\/products\/kinusaiga-craft-kit-chunky-brown-bear-8-8","provider":"Start Small Farms","version":"1.0","type":"link"}