Japanese Stitches Unraveled: 160+ Stitch Patterns to Knit Top Down, Bottom Up, Back and Forth, and In the Round

Japanese Stitches Unraveled: 160+ Stitch Patterns to Knit Top Down, Bottom Up, Back and Forth, and In the Round

by Wendy Bernard
Japanese Stitches Unraveled: 160+ Stitch Patterns to Knit Top Down, Bottom Up, Back and Forth, and In the Round

Japanese Stitches Unraveled: 160+ Stitch Patterns to Knit Top Down, Bottom Up, Back and Forth, and In the Round

by Wendy Bernard

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Overview

More than 160 fascinating and rare Japanese stitch pattern designs, collected and translated, making them accessible to knitters everywhere.

Japanese stitch patterns are eye-catching and much sought after by devotees, but before now, they often seemed out of reach, whether locked behind Japanese-only instructions or tangled up in difficult-to-decipher illustrations. Japanese Stitches Unraveled offers 160 rare patterns inspired by these elusive and intricate Japanese stitch designs, along with fully illustrated charts, familiar symbols, and clear instructions for every single stitch. Each stitch pattern receives Bernard’s unique four-direction makeover—top-down, bottom-up, back-and-forth, and in-the-round. To showcase the knitting in action, Bernard also includes instructions for six garments as well as her famous formulas for knitting without a pattern.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683352181
Publisher: ABRAMS, Inc.
Publication date: 05/23/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 148,682
File size: 71 MB
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About the Author

Wendy Bernard is the author of The Knitting All Around Stitch Dictionary, Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary, and the Custom Knits series. Her popular blog, Knit and Tonic (www.knitandtonic.net), has thousands of fans, and her knitwear patterns have been published everywhere, from Knitty and Stitch Diva Studios to Interweave Knits and Knitscene magazines. She teaches top-down knitting on Creativebug, Craftsy, and via her DVD series (Interweave) . Bernard lives in Thousand Oaks, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Getting Started 8

Following the Charts in This Book 12

How the Swatches in This Book Were Made 14

1 Knits & Purls

Stockinette Stitch 18

Garter Stitch 18

Arrows 18

Zigzags 20

Banded Squares 21

Stacked Books 22

Ribs and Ridges 24

Stacked Boxes 25

8-Point Stars 26

Diagonals and Crosses 29

Lizard Lattice 30

Seed Stitch Squares 31

Cross Motif 33

Centipede Stitch 34

Stripe Pillars 35

Intertwined Texture 36

Small Basket Stitch 37

Enlarged Basket Stitch 38

Escalator Pattern 40

Banded Insertion 42

Block Quilting 43

Welted Leaf 44

Mosaic Stitch 46

Basket Stitch Pillow 49

2 Ribs

Chained Eyelet Columns 52

Ribs and Frogs 53

Bramble Ribs 54

Charlie Brown Twisted Ribs 57

Bobble in a Basket 59

Prosperity Ribs 60

Wrapped Columns 61

Twists and Chains 63

Chained Ribs 63

Oblique Rib Left 64

Oblique Rib Right 64

Ridged Rib 65

Lacy Chevron Rib 65

Supple Rib 66

Rib Checks 67

Linked Ribs 68

3-Stitch Twisted Rib 71

Granite Rib 71

Chain Stitch Rib 72

Square Rib 73

Single Lace Rib 74

Little Chevron Rib 74

Broad Spiral Rib 76

Grand Chevron Rib 77

3-Stitch Twisted Rib Slouch Cap 79

3 Fancy & Twisted

Blooming Ginger 82

Katsura Twists 84

Herringbone Twist 85

Wrapped Waves 86

Spiders 88

Flames 93

Dots and Dashes 95

Mock Left Cable and Twist 96

Mock Right Cable and Twist 97

Mini Cables and Tassels 99

Banded Wraps 101

Bobble Checkerboard 102

Bubble Clusters 103

Crowns 104

Butterfly Checkerboard 106

Flower Bud Texture 107

Left Parallelograms 108

Right Parallelograms 109

Peanuts 110

Crossed Blanket Stitch 111

4-Point Star Texture 112

Tatami Weave Floats 114

Raised Parallelograms 115

Flight of the Gulls 116

Trellis Pattern 118

Little Tents 119

Syncopated Waves 120

Lace and Seed Stitch 122

Elongated Openwork 123

Pussy Willows 124

Hammocks 125

Waves and Garter Ridges 126

Shingle Stitch 128

Ancient Blocks 129

Crossed Blanket Stitch Mittens 131

4 Cables

Dragon and Cables 136

Mock Cable and Claws 137

Twists and Eyelets 139

Water Gourd Cables 141

4-Column Snake Cables 142

Jeweled Cables 144

Knots and Twisted Columns 145

Braided Diamond Cables 146

Nautical Twists 150

Stacked Horned Owls 153

Pitchforks 154

Open Crossed Columns 155

Forked Diamonds 156

Seeded 5-Stitch Cross 158

4-Stitch Cross Texture 159

Eyelets and Cables 160

Twists and Cables 162

Crossed Checkerboard 163

Long and Short Cables 164

Mini Honeycomb 165

Open Wishbone Cables 166

Goblets 170

Open and Closed Twists 172

Trees 173

Beetle Cable 175

Diamond and Garter Cable 176

Open Medallion Cable 177

Framed Moss and Bobble Cables 178

Tiny Chains 179

Chain Mail 180

Winding Rhombus 181

Stacked Seed Hearts 182

9-Stitch Braids 186

5-Stitch Serpents 187

Tipsy Cables 188

Roman Cable 189

Snakes in the Sand 190

Ornamental Cable 191

Slipped Zigzag Cable 192

Cross-Stitch Cable 193

Snow Tracks 194

Sideways Cable Pulli 197

5 Lace

Zigzag and Garter Lace 202

Waving Wheat 203

Overlapping Spearheads 204

Candelabra 206

Gothic Seeded Arches 208

Wheat Sheaves 210

Peacock Feathers 212

Little Berries 213

Halved Hourglasses 214

Cherry Blossoms 216

Lily of the Valley 217

Figs 219

Arrow Bands 220

Rising Suns 221

Field of Flowers 222

Sparkling Diamonds 224

Eyelet Grid 225

Acorns and Eyelets 226

Wheat Bales 228

Ants on a Log 229

Sails 230

Ribbons 232

Mesh 234

Mini Arches 234

Leaf Panes 236

Nestled Leaves 237

Serpentine Waves 238

Arches 239

Dominoes 240

Little Shells 241

Lacy Right Diagonals 242

Lacy Left Diagonals 243

Lacy Streamers 244

Right-Leaning Lace 246

Left-Leaning Lace 248

Open Acorns 250

Undulating Texture 251

Ladders and Eyelets 253

Climbing Garter Vine 254

Hanging Berries 255

Arrowheads and Diamonds 256

Climbing Diamonds 259

Waves and Welts 260

Welted Herringbone 261

Little Berries Bulky Scarf 263

From-Scratch Projects 265

Special Techniques 278

Symbol Key 279

Abbreviations 280

Stitch Multiple Index 282

Index 284

Acknowledgments 286

About the Author 287

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