Japanese Knitting
In addition to the reason I wanted this book, here are a couple more very cute projects from the Japanese knitting magazine:
Resources
Now obviously I don't speak, read or even look Japanese. So, I am going to need some help. There are a few very good explainations of the charts online. For those of you who might try some Japanese knitting, here they are:
Japanese Pattern Basics
How to Read Japanese Graphical Charts
Japanese-English Knitting Dictionary
Japanese Characters-Kana
SugarCubed's Quick Japanese Pattern Help
Japanese Pattern/Charting Instructions
Free Japanese Patterns
Scarves
Fall/Winter Women's Patterns
More Fall/Winter Women's Pattern's
Kid's and Baby Patterns
Men's Patterns
Knitting of a high Class Patterns
Spring and Summer Women's Sweater Patterns
Spring and Summer Shawl and Stole Patterns
Japanese Dish Scrubbies
posted by Amanda @ 5:33 AM 
5 Comments:
Those ARE beautiful projects! Good luck with the translating. :)
Bravo for trying out Japanese knitting patterns! They are not difficult once you get the hang of them. I've got that mag too and love all those designs.
Siow Chin
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Those are beautiful projects! I love the purse. Good luck
ooh! thanks for posting those links! i took a little bit of japanese (not nearly enough) and recently received a japanese pattern book which is inspiring also. can't wait to see how your projects turn out!
a great translation tool at Google!
http://www.google.com/language_tools
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