Japanese Knitting Stitch Patterns

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2018-1-6 08:31
How did you fall in love with Japanese stitch patterns?  

I remember seeing a pattern for a beautif ...

To be honest, my first Japanese patterns were for crochet, since I used to make a lot of crochet stuff and I didnt even know that that beautiful lace was Japanese, I thought it was French, since the magazine was French. So many years later Ive found out it was reprinted edition of Nihon vogue.
About 15 years ago, looking at different web albums, I bacame curious about Japanese patterns, mostly because I realy love charts and have enough experience in knitting to make pattern for my own size. I placed my first order with yesasia.com for 300 lace patterns (sorry, but Im not allowed to post a link) and after the first one Ive made a few orders from China, because books are the same, but the price was ridiculous ... for example, 6 books for less than 20 USD.

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2018-1-6 09:16
To be honest, my first Japanese patterns were for crochet, since I used to make a lot of crochet s ...

Ive seen some absolute beautiful Japanese crochet patterns.  Ive got one for a capelet that I want to make one day.  I can read a written crochet pattern, but not a charted one yet.  However, I prefer charted knitting patterns over written ones.  I love beautifully done charts.  Maybe Ill learn to read crochet charts this year, along with the other skills I plan to learn.  
Im so happy you mentioned yesasia.com!  Thank you!  I forgot about that website; its been years since I looked at it.  Are the Japanese books translated into Chinese language?  About 5 years ago, I saw a Chinese translation of the "Clear and Simple" book on Amazon (I think it was Amazon).
One of the things that I found so cool about some of the Japanese garment patterns Ive seen was that they might have a drawn picture of the garment, with minimal pattern information and measurements written on it.  I realized that Id really have to know what I was doing in order to successfully knit them.  Ive also noticed minimal instructions in some of the European patterns Ive read.  

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2018-1-7 06:33
Ive seen some absolute beautiful Japanese crochet patterns.  Ive got one for a capelet that I wa ...

The book I have from China are translated, but charts are the same as in Japanese edition. For example, 1000 patterns book was very expensive on Amazon.jp, it is still more than 50 USD, but only few dollars on dangdang 3 years ago.

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2018-1-7 05:07
The book I have from China are translated, but charts are the same as in Japanese edition. For exa ...

That is amazing!  How wonderful for you!  Ive got to check out dangdang.

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Beautiful work

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