Let's Knit!!

due to the lack of computer at work for the past two days, I have took to read whatever reading material I've brought over from home, and read each word carefully so that I'd have something to do... (there's very little work for me to do without my computer.)

so one of the things that I've got lying around is my Let's Knit series book from Japan that I got. It has these color illustrations & picture illustrations to teach how to make mittens, gloves and socks for men and women.

I read over the instructions... it's in Japanese... so i mainly have to rely on simple Kangi characters and pictures & roman numerals to help me decipher what the heck the instructions are.

I think I have sorta figured out the mittens one... it's the first one in the series, and i think I may cast on for it... if I don't end up trying to finish the baby blanket. I'm on the decreases, but it's a lot slower doing decreases as the increases... i don't know why.

There's a sort of feel with Japanese knitting... sorta organic, sorta functional... sorta vintage... weird huh? I don't know what it is about it...