The Plunge
One of the things I discovered in my early knitting days were
the Mon Tricot stitch dictionaries. They are no longer in print but can be
found on EBay. If the hours were counted up, I’ve probably spent several months
(okay maybe years) of my life looking through these and knitting swatches. I
have a set of the Barbara Walker stitch dictionaries—more hours and more swatches.
Well last week I took the plunge. A plunge I’ve been wanting, desiring to take
for several years and bought Knitting Patterns Book 300, a Japanese Stitch
Dictionary. It has consumed my reading time the last two evenings. My little
fingers are itching to start knitting swatches. I am also aching to own
Knitting Patterns Book 300 Lace and the $90 1000 Knitting (and Crochet)
Patterns book. The text is in Japanese, but the patterns are charted using standard
knitting symbols. The number of stitches and rows in a repeat are clearly boxed. At the back, is a glossary with clear drawings illustrating the
steps to executing each of the symbols. And the stitch patterns are stunning.
Take a look here.
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