Late night explorations- finished!

Long overdue! I've finally managed to finish of my experiment with the Japanese crochet charts!

Definitely not one of my favourite pieces, but a very dear one mainly because i actually managed to pull through the whole pattern and learnt how to read the crochet chart as well.

would you look at the trees! ' maaaooow'

I've already started a ginger version  of the cat using the same 2.5mm hook which i used for this one. And in other news, i found and ordered 'Ami Ami Dogs- seriously cute crochet by Mitsuki Hoshi'. i know there are a gazillion pages which are offering the PDF as a free download but at the end of the day, i just wanted to give back to this craft which has had me enamored for so very long! And honestly, i'm a sucker for books and i might just have a problem as far as accumulating books are concerned ;)

Thanks for reading!

late night explorations

The first time i saw Japanese 'Amigurumi' i was amazed with the sort of intricate patterns that the artists followed! It was beyond my understanding at that time and i couldn't understand how anyone could read such charts.

So today(night rather) i finally attempted to understand how exactly one can read these patterns and i must confess that i was successfully able to translate as well as crochet the pattern!

noting down the pattern in simple form!

Aren't they precious!

The ever so intimidating chart! Many thanks to 'TODOAMIGURUMI' for the pattern resources
Find the whole book here! 



More updates later as i translate the rest of the pattern. For translating purposes i followed a very simple guide posted by
'aspettame' on  'we love amigurumi'

looking forward to finish my first authentic Japanese pattern!