Introduction to Japanese Stitch Patterns
Overview
- showing up everywhere in current patterns & books (knitted socks east & west)
- looking for an alternative to older stitch dictionaries/ stitch patterns (though some are repeated or tweaked)
- my current patterns:Â Sweet Cecily, Kelpie, Pt Reyes mitts
Where to find
- Stitch Dictionaries:
- 250, 300, 500, 1000, others
- from the various Japanese magazines & books
- keito damo, etc
Where to purchase
- Yesasia
- Amazon Japan
- Needlearts bookshop
- occasionally on eBay
- some LYS (Village Spinning & Weaving)
- Local Japanese bookstores, markets
How to interpret
- easy knit symbols
- needles arts pdf
- tatoo
- link of sites on my blog
- must be able to read charts!!!!