pinku: Tachiyomi shimasen ka?

Ooh yes a crafty post to start off the week. No babies here. How exciting!

Well a year after J was born I'm starting to get my crafty mojo back, but alas I still don't have a lot of time to ACTUALLY craft unfortunately. I can dream though, right?

So last week I bought a new Japanese craft book, which is exciting because I haven't bought one in a very long time.

Aranmoyo

It contains a whole bunch of lovely wearable and cute sweater/cardigan and accessory patterns that are based on aran knitting - lotsa cables.

I thought I would scan a bunch of picture to show you what is inside, but when I visited the Nihon Vogue website I discovered an AWESOME new feature. That's where the blog title comes in - 'tachiyomi' in Japanese means to stand and read. This is mostly encouraged in Japanese bookstores unlike in Australian newspaper shops. Anyways, Nihon Vogue has added a 'tachiyomi' feature to their new craft book online store, which means that you can check out 16 pages of any new craft book - it's REALLY good. It doesn't show you the whole book but definitely enough to whet your appetite. It also clearly shows the ISBN if you are keen to find a copy of a book you want.

So it is all in Japanese but laid out really simply. Here is the link to the book shown above:

http://book.nihonvogue.co.jp/search/searchDetail.do?screenType=5&productId=3256

Under the picture of the book cover, there is a yellowy/orange button - this is the tachiyomi button - click it to view the patterns inside the book.

Go here to view more Japanese KNITTING books. Remember to click on the cover, then the tachiyomi button!!! Enjoy!

While we are here, I'm also loving this book - Scandinavian Jacquard Hats! Check out the cute boy/girl white and red one. I'm so gonna knit this one.

Scandinavian