The large book in the middle is filled with georgeous lace crochet patterns. The two small ones holds wonderfull, simple sewing patterns for girls garments. My japanese vocabulary is non-existing, but the patterns are really not hard to follow. Don't know if it is the case with all japanese craft books, but the majority of those I have seen have been very visual and giving pretty understandable instructions. Off cause it can help a bit to have a japanese stitch-ionary handy when dealing with some japanese knitting patterns ;-)
But I am not supposed to make use of the above books right now. In stead I should allocate my craft time to this:
The Rainbow design in Rowan Summer Tweed from The Kashbah Collection. Ehem - no, I am not knitting a rainbow. Stripes tend to somehow "broaden the horizon", so I'll make do with a monochrome version. Hope this is one of those knits that I will actually finish!
By the way - try to pop over to Lolly and take a look at her great Bohus sweater!
5 comments:
stripes are great to knit but hard for most people to wear. so you're into Japanese crafting books.. so far I have yet to succumb to that .. i get all twitching just with the thought of another tangent hobbies decreasing my knitting time ...
Ahhhhhh...you've been bitten hard! What I now realize about all of those gorgeous books is that I'm going to need to take six months to translate the pattern symbols. How we suffer for our art. :-)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/knittinginjapan/
Do you already know the yahoo group knittingjapan?
The combination of Amy Butler fabrics and Japanese craft books is dangerous and addictive!
Do you have a good source for the books you can recommend?
I'm knitting with that same colour of summer tweed right now.
Nice sweater choice--it'll look great in a solid colour.
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