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Japanese Craft Book- 13 digit ISBN 9784529044950 10 digit ISBN 4529044955 Children's Crochet Patterns 90 * 100 * 110 cm

Okay, this one is one of my favorites.  For some reason it's part of the Let's Knit Series, but it's all crochet patterns for sweet little kids.

How can you not want to make everything in this book! 

The little kiddies in this book are so sweet and endearing, I especially like the patterns for the boys, that's actually why I bought this book to begin with.

How cute are these little girls!

The blanket and slipper patterns are included.

These little boy patterns are SO endearing.

I know it's about the patterns, but aren't these images adorable?

I seriously wish I had time to make these all, they are so cute.  Dang it.  But I know that whoever ends up with this will make more clothes from the patterns than I would!

Japanese Craft Book- 10 digit ISBN 4021904050 13 digit ISBN 978-4021904059 Japanese Baby sweaters and more Asahi Original Collection

This is one that I bought to make the pretty coat on the front cover, but then ended up never getting to it in time.  Now my little girl is too big, and the only thing I ever sort of made was the little capelet for my niece, and then ended up majorly modifying the pattern to only include the lacy part of the pattern.

Front cover

contents

even more contents

bonnet & booties

Don't you love the aesthetic of these books, they're all so pretty.  The patterns are for boys and girls, and seem like they'd be fairly quick to make.  I think the charts help out so much with all of these books, they make the patterns so simple to understand.

Japanese Crochet Pattern Book- 10 digit ISBN 4861912016 13 digit ISBN 9784861912016 Desserts and Food theme- keito no tei taimu fujita tomoko no nitsuto ru mu- 毛糸のティータイム

Another book that I couldn't wait to get & drooled over every time I saw projects made from it, and then opened only a smattering of times to admire but never ever make anything from. Nuts! These are really fantastic projects.
 
Yum!- what a perfect front cover.

Back cover

a lovely "pear" of ideas :)

I really wanted to make this

an apple coin purse

pattern example.

This one is definitely one of the most beautiful crocheted fruit/food books I've ever seen, I wish I had time & the inclination to actually make some of these projects.

Japanese Craft Books- 10 digit ISBN 4391117584 13 digit ISBN 978-4391117585 Japanese Felt Mascots- tenuide tsukuru doubutsu masukotto chiisana tomodachi 190 ten

Okay, so what I think I'm going to do is use the isbn # (and the actual titles if I have them) as the title for each post and do one post per book, that way it's easier to categorize.  In no particular order, this post and the following 10 or so, are the books that I'm going to be listing for sale on Etsy as part of my decluttering/passing really neat books on to someone who'll actually use them kick :)

This one's fun because it reads from right to left.  This includes patterns and instructions for all of the little felt cuties on the cover, front & back.  I've seen them come to fruition on a bunch of different blogs and I always adore them, but for some reason I'm never especially compelled to make any of them. My son loves all the little mascots in this book, but he prefers just looking at it, and doesn't really want me to actually make any of them for him.  They are super cute aren't they?  I especially love the mallard!

front

 

back

materials & supplies

how to

super cute examples of what you can make

I think one of the bad things about actually doing this and spending time with the books trying to decide which pages best represent the book as a whole is that I'm remembering why I bought these in the first place!  I'm committed to pass them on though so I'd appreciate all the help I can get with that ;) Thanks.

Francisca the butterfly & Laura the ladybird

Here are the twins, I've absolutely no time to write, but I'll share images and be back soon!