Let's Knit Series #13

New book out - beautiful lace and unusual combinations of stitches.

Links in Amazon Japan and YesAsia in the side bar.

Click the Amazon Japan icon (in the side bar) and you can look inside the book. Anyone up for the white sweater, with a high neck?

Keito Dama 135

Just received this Keito Dama magazine this morning.
The link above is in Amazon Japan, unfortunately the book is out of stock in YesAsia.

It has lots of unusual cabled patterns and delicate combinations of lace and cable motifs.

This vest bellow is my favourite and hopefully I'm going to start it very soon as it is, or a a short sleeve cardi.

And on top of everything I was so happy to find an article dedicated to our Romanian lace point tradition.

Can't describe my surprise to open a Japanese magazine in England, and see a picture of my Romanian hometown.

Lace point is really popular in Romania, probably the most popular handcraft - and everybody is designing and creating their own patterns.

My mother is a real expert, needless to say my house is full of similar doilies and tablecloths.

I'm glad somebody finally got an interest on it.

New Style of Heirloom Knitting

It's not the Am Kamin which is the winner with me, but the oak leaf and the acorn motif.

So I had to try it - in line with my new resolution of knitting only from my stash - as I just discovered this nice green yarn ( too long forgotten).

Here it is:

and it's really easy.

Or to be more specific it became easy when I've realised that the twisted symbols (or the 'flying fishes') are NOT 'ktb's but strand increases. They are suppose to be oriented towards the right (the bold ones) or towards the left, the plain ones.

A brilliant explanation here: Strand Increase. Read this and you'll be fine. The Strand Increase(1) is for the bold twisted stitch, the Strand Increase(2) is for the plain one.

Next challenge is the mini chart A (8 stitches). It's about a small 'bobble' and a cable - because you would like to 'push' the bobble a bit away from the leaf main body.

So it goes like this: save 3 stitches on a cn at the back, knit the bobble according to the mini chart for the bobble (5 stitches reduced to one) then purl 3 from the cable needle. Easy.

Chart B is the bobble on the other side, and it is symmetrical. I trust my readers to be able to figure it out.

My swatch above has two mistakes, unfortunately I'm too lazy to go back a long way to correct anything. First there are two purled lines in the acorn pattern and I missed one - then I've lost one or two stitches from the background at some point, so my main leaf is slightly leaning towards the left. Sorry :).

Let's just call it the Leaning Oak Leaf in a windy day.

The book can be found here in YesAsia. Or just collect the ISBN number and feel free to google.

Knitting Patterns Book 250

This book is probably my favourite knitting book ever. ( The links in YesAsia and Amazon Japan are listed on the right side of the page).




I did a swatch for the cover pattern - following a discussion on the knittinginjapan yahoo group - just to see how it goes. It's pattern 086, page 40.

Pretty much straight forward, but I did a mistake on row 12 - it's a WS row with a kind of 'unexpected' change in pattern.

Apart from this, there are no particular challenges, it will only require an ambitious beginner to use it.

And I guess It will only work well with a yarn with a very good stitch definition.

Vintage Knitting in Tradition

Remember the famous Am Kamin sweater and the acorn leaf motif ?
Well, Shimada Toshiyuki is out with a new book.
Arans, shawls, fair isle, a bohus style sweater and the acorn leaf slightly modified.
Click on the image bellow in order to browse a few pages on Amazon Japan.



The book is available in YesAsia, as well, at this address.

There are a few mistakes in this edition, an but there is an errata available in pdf format.

Let's Knit Series new book - Autumn Winter 2007

New book out.
Browse a few pages in Amazon Japan (just follow the link with the same image, on the right side of the page).

More Japanese Knitting and Crochet Patterns Books

Japanese Knitting And Crochet Patterns Books

Knitting Patterns Book 250



Knitting Patterns 250 in YesAsia.com

Knitting Patterns Book 300



Knitting Patterns Book 300 in YesAsia

Knitting Patterns Book 300



Knitting Pattern Book 300 in YesAsia.com

Knitting Patterns Book 500



Knitting Patterns 500 in YesAsia.com

Knitting Patterns Book 1000



Knitting Patterns 1000 in YesAsia.com

Knitting Patterns Book 100 - Aran Patterns



Knitting Patterns 100 in YesAsia.com

Knitting Patterns Book 250



Knitting Patterns 250 in YesAsia.com

Crochet Patterns 300



Crochet Patterns 300 in YesAsia.com

Crochet Patterns 200



Not available in YesAsia.com

Let's Knit Series #12

New issue out and available in YesAsia.

Check the links on the right side for a preview.

Let's Knit Series Book

This is another beautiful book I just received. It is still available in Amazon Japan. I could not figure out the title, but I am posting a few images bellow.
I will swatch the pattern for the cover sweater tonight - I think I've got the right yarn for it as well.

My favourite one.

Elegance Knit Images

Let's Knit Series #11 - Elegance Knit
Cover Sweater

Japanese books - where to buy them from

Amazon Japan

Use the Links list, published on the right of the KAL home page, in order to see some of the books in the 'Let's Knit Series', on Amazon Japan.
Order them directly from them, or copy the ISBN number and search them in other shops.

YesAsia

Click the button above to get to YesAsia website, then search in Books by ISBN number or by keywords. 'Knit' is a good keyword to start with.
The website is all in English and they offer free delivery for most of the books.