You can see the entire list of books I've ordered by clicking this previous post on Japanese books.
I chose these books more or less randomly, based on all sorts of reviews and ISBN numbers I found googling the Internet.
First impresion is that the patterns are very original. Lots of lace patterns, cables, bobbles and combinations of all these I haven't seen before.
Here are two entrelac projects in the New Style of Heirloom kniting, see the way the decreases were planned just by kniting smaller and smaller squares.
Another book I simply love is the Knitting patterns Book 250, which is packed with great lace patterns.
Here is one of my favourite patterns:
What can you do with it? For example this great lace cardigan from Vogue Knitting Holiday 2006.
It is a small world after all :)...
4 comments:
I agree that technique is awesome!Looks like that book lives up to the hype.
I have a couple japanese knitting books that have some pretty neat patterns in them, too.
If you ever figure out the directions for the entrelac sweaters, write me at once! My husband adores the one with the entrelac yoke, but I just don't have the energy to translate it.
Is that actually a seamless sweater with an entrelac yoke?
Wow!
But this is from a japanese book? The title doesn't look japanese though - I'm off to do some googling :)
You can check the book here. It is the first in the list. Click the image and you'll end up on the amazon.jp website where you can actually browse the book.
http://sbutnarasu.blogspot.com/2007/02/japanese-knitting-books.html
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