I can’t leave you all hanging with the shopping I did while at Vogue Knitting Live! in New York. I had planned on shopping a bit, but to be honest, the marketplace was INSANE!!! I pretty much had only the time between classes to shop. As did most other people, I think. It was worse [...]
Japanese Knitting
How pretty is this sweater going to be? Although I already messed it up, I think it is going to be a great one. See the bottom of the back? See how that is the front of stockenette and not the back? That’s where I messed up. I just kept on going without looking at [...]
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 [...]
Because it always seems like a good idea to pass someone on a two lane road in the country (for those of you in the city, it is much darker in the country) in dense fog… That was my drive to work. This, as we say in the IT world, ID10T (that is said eye-dee-ten-tee [...]
Ei was gifted with the Japanese magazine with this pattern: How beautiful!! So, I found the magazine on Amazon.co.jp. It costs 1050 yen. I think that comes out to be $9…hmmmm. Not sure about shipping though. I think some of these yarn stores need to start carrying the Japanese magazines, too. They have French, German, [...]
