March 16, 2006

Japanese for stuffed animal crafting

character translation table for stuffed animal patterns by my little mochi.

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January 26, 2006

Google Japan help

latest in the series from make write

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January 21, 2006

Book search help

Makewrite has made an awesome search term index of craft-related Japanese characters and words, plus a directory of handy links to a bunch of searches!

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November 04, 2005

Japanese knitting help

ABCs of Knitting is a Japanese knitting site with a lot of great information in English:

There's a bunch of other stuff on the site, too, including instructions/reviews for a pompom maker and Hanaami loom and free patterns.

More help on reading Japanese knitting charts is at Clearwater Knits, plus they offer two free sweater charts.

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August 24, 2005

Beading help

Glossary of Japanese beading words at Atelier Suzuran. This site also features several free projects and book reviews in English!

Glossary at Beading Bees, too. They have a whole bunch of free projects and tutorials.

Yodomi-Koubou also has a bunch of free patterns and tutorials.

Tutorial at SeeZoo BeeZoo.

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July 26, 2005

Japanese crochet help

Crochet symbols chart, very useful for figuring out the Japanese crochet diagrams.

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