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Japanese knitting patterns
2005 @ 10:29 am
Today I decided that I want to start knitting for the baby. I am sure this is related to the fact that I am done with Christmas knitting! Ok, i lied, there is one thing not finished, but there is no hope of getting that done before tomorrow. My in-laws will be here this afternoon and I am anxious to get something on the needles. Here’s the problem though–the patterns I am interested in knitting are in my japanese pattern books (bottom row), the ones my in-laws brought me from Japan.
Even though the Japanese use charts and the metric system, I have no clue where to start. So, I started poking around online, sure that I was not the first to encounter this problem. I went to the publisher’s first… no luck there. Then I did googled ‘Japanese knitting tranlation’ and came upon this site. There is an awesome section called All About Japanese Knitting Patterns. Herein is a dictionary of translations, explanation of yarn thickness, needle size, materials used, and a resource for reading Japanese charts.
This is overwhelming, to say the least!
Comments
you know, of course, that i’m already all over it! 
let’s talk about translation on monday!
Ooo, good luck with that. I will be so interested to read about your adventures in Japanese pattern knitting. Happy Holidays!