International Reading

Since we finished celebrating all things American, I thought it might be time to turn our attention to something international - specifically books.

While at TNNA last month we visited one of our favorite vendors, Lacis, and stocked up on international books to stock our shelves.

Starting with Japan - we reordered favorites from the past year such as Cable Fashion Drama


and plenty of new titles including Textures in Elegance. Sally Rainey of the Rainey Sisters fame recently completed the Cathedral sweater from this book. Read her wrap up post here.


We also added these.



Both have a variety of knitted and crocheted small projects such as hats, bags, placements, baskets, slippers etc. which might make an easy way to get your feet wet reading the Japanese charts.

From Germany, we added a few new lace knitting titles.



and Knitted Lace Designs of Herbert Niebling.

Once again I reference the Rainey Sisters for a completed Niebling project. This time it was Susan who WOWed us with her Lyra.

Finally, for a little Norwegian history, we added Everyday Knitting by Annemor Sundbo.


This book is a 'treasure trove of knitting patterns and cultural history' found in pile of rags!

As always, keep checking our shelves because you never know when other international titles will appear.