It’ll tell you everything you need to know about what the book contains.Īlthough the projects are adorable and lovely… if you’re buying a book for the projects, it’s a personal judgement about whether the particular projects in the book speak to you. But really, if you’re just curious about the projects in the book, you can head on over to Amazon and use the ‘look inside’ feature. This book contains 25 beautiful & colorful crochet projects, all fabulously photographed and totally enticing. What if there were a magical book: originally written in Japanese (so it contains all of the charts and illustrations, exactly as they would be written in a Japanese book), but with the text of the book translated into English? Wouldn’t that be the perfect way to get your feet wet with charts? But fear not: I have an idea that will set you on your path to charted bliss.
And, I’ll be honest with you: buying a Japanese book as a way of trying to learn the charts will be tricky.
I know… it can be daunting to pick up an entire book in another language. You can read about my latest needle-felting book purchase in this blog post.) Page from Crochet with Color, book reviewed below.(Actually, the illustration-heavy nature of Japanese instruction books applies to other crafts as well. Want to know the good news? Japanese crochet patterns are written with charts: meaning that, if you can understand the international language of the charted symbol, you’ll gain access to all of those amazing patterns! Just one example of the crochet fabulous-ness that comes out of Japan.Of course there’s a little bit of bad news that accompanies this discovery: many of us (myself included) don’t read Japanese. It doesn’t matter if the craft is sewing, crocheting, needle felting… you name it and I can guarantee that you’ll find a supply of irresistible Japanese books on the topic. Suggested retail $16.95.I adore Japanese craft books. I tend to think Japanese knitting patterns are not the best for beginners, but if you are more visually oriented, comfortable with reading charts and confident in your ability to translate the symbols, these designs are a lot of fun.Ībout the book: 160 pages, paperback, 260 stitch patterns, 5 projects.
These patterns include more text than traditional Japanese knitting patterns, which might be a good way to practice if you haven’t worked a pattern like this before. There are also five patterns in the book: a mini scarf with frill, socks with cables, a hat with cables and eyelets, fingerless mitts and a lace collar. (Those last two the photos are in a gallery with the charts printed together after.) These stitches are gorgeous and cover a variety of styles including lacy patterns, overall patterns and crossing stitches, panel patterns, pattern arrangements (which play with different variations like adding bobbles, changing the vertical alignment of a pattern or changing the direction of the twist in a twisted stitch pattern), circular yokes and edgings. The patterns also indicate how many stitches are used in a repeat, so you can easily add them to garments or other projects. The stitch patterns themselves are presented in large photos (with two or three patterns presented on most pages) with the chart presented beside it. Within the patterns themselves, Japanese patterns do not usually provide a key for what the symbols mean, but there is a thorough chart of the symbols at the beginning of the book that explains what they mean and which patterns in the book use them. The book includes an English introduction by Gayle Roehm, which talks a bit about Japanese knitting in general, working with charts and deciphering the symbols used in the charts.
Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible: 260 Exquisite Patterns by Hitomi Shida, is just one such collection, and it’s a beauty. Japanese knitting patterns and knitting stitch patterns have become popular in the rest of the world over the last few years, and more books are being published for a non-Japanese audience, which is great for those of us who might be a little intimidated by the charts and a foreign language explaining what the charts mean.
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