Christmas Gift to Myself

クリスマスという口実で、ロータリーカッターの刃とミシン針のまとめ買い。
ついでに今持ってる45ミリに加えて28ミリの小さいロータリーカッターも買っちゃった。
ちなみにこのオルファという会社名はカッターの替え刃がパキパキ折れるところから、「折る刃」を外来語風にしたのが由来らしいよ。裁縫業界では日本製品は海外でもかなり強いね。
ちなみにこれ全部で2万円ぐらいするんだよね。そんな高い買い物には見えないよね（爆）

Using Christmas as an excuse, I bought some (or 300) sewing machine needles, rotary cutter blades, and a new rotary cutter (28mm). (Yup, I like buying bulk)

I wanted a small rotary cutter for cutting paper patterns because my retractable craft knife gets dulled so quickly on the self healing mat.

It was funny that the blades I got were in totally Japanese original packaging, obviously not meant for oversea sale, although the image on Amazon was showing English on the package.

By the way, did you know that the name "Olfa" comes from Japanese words "oru-ha"? 'Oru' means to fold or break, and 'ha' means blades. Basically it comes from innovation of breakable retractable craft knife blades. So Olfa = breakable blades. A little trivia for you.