For Mom
My mother was great crafter, sewer, quilter and crocheter. In addition to making all of us beautiful quilts, scrubbies to use in the kitchen, and painting objects, she loved to make crocheted snowflakes for the Christmas tree. I have many of her snowflakes, so when I saw this book at the Japanese grocery store the other day, I knew that I had to have it.
Lovely colors and shapes.
This idea of putting a snowflake on a pair of felted mittens really appeals to me.
Hopefully the class that I took from Donna Druchanus on knitting with Japanese pattern books will help me to decipher these patterns also.
knitting1105, 
Helen, and 
Manning are discussing. 
Knitting before Knitting was Cool 
Manning 1:31 pm on October 8, 2014 Permalink |
Those are great! And I love that they all seem to actually have 6 sides! Most knitted “snowflakes” have four or eight sides/points, which always drives me nuts because I’m kind of a snowflake nerd and of course snowflakes always have six sides because of the triangular nature of the h20 bonds. https://www.google.com/search?q=knitting+snowflake+pattern&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=nYI1VJO0PIixogSX3IDYBQ&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1338&bih=762
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knitting1105 11:39 am on October 17, 2014 Permalink |
The first snowflakes that my mom made had 8 sides, as she read the pattern wrong. She wanted them all thrown out, luckily I kept some. Thanks for the knitting link. And I don’t know what an h20 bond is exactly, but I appreciate that all of nature makes sense. Check out the book The Power of Limits
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Helen 5:21 am on October 11, 2014 Permalink |
I bought a copy of this also. And I also like that these are ‘anatomically correct’ snowflakes! 🙂
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