How to Read Japanese Crochet Patterns

[@PinkyJapan]

I am the opposite - I live in Japan and can read Japanese text but couldn't read the pattern. Now I can, because of you! Thank you so much! Great video

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

That is so wonderful! Thank you!

[@sidalutkucu]

the way you teach is sooo lovely. the tutorial was so helpful, so the tip for lefties. thanks a lot!

[@tikkakitty8802]

I learned japanese in highschool and in university so i can read japanese quite fluently. The title says as a rough literal translation: a compilation of 200 key/essential beginner crochet stitches

[@dionsusan]

Miss Ellen, I was captured by your "How to Read Japanese Crochet" and you have magically made reading crochet schematics fun. I have spent years glancing at those at the ends of patterns, feeling my eyes rolling back in my head and then ripping out work and trying to figure out what on earth that really long paragraph is talking about. Well, I accept the challenge (I know its all in my mind) and next binky - which is for Abigail Arin Putek in Gardiner Maine - I will go straight to the diagram and see what happens from there. The video didn't seem too long at all because you were being just enough silly and you steadily moved through the directions until you had something beautiful in your hand. Thank you Miss Ellen and of course, I subscribed. I am writing to you from "the trenches" in Los Angeles.

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@Misslele1123]

Wow this is Nate I thought that I was the only one to try and read diagrams in a different language thanks for sharing

[@coolgma319]

This is so interesting and informative. Thank you, Ellen.

[@RosileeJe]

Thank you for this! I just found some Japanese motif and lace crochet books on Etsy that I really wanted to try out some patterns from, but don't know near enough Japanese to read all the little notes and had never used crochet diagrams before. I never realized just how easy diagrams actually are to follow!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

You are so welcome!

[@janetlepre7555]

This was so helpful! Thank you for taking your busy time to show us! Love, love your new book: One Skein Crochet! I will often refer to it! Thank you. Wishing you great success!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you so much, Janet!

[@tsdeakin]

Awesome tutorial on reading charts! I didn't know how to read them at all last year and was very intimated by them. I started off slow and used them to check and make sure I understood what was written. I'm not an expert, by no stretch of the imagination, at reading charts but to tell the truth I think they are easier than reading written crochet patterns. Thank you for sharing!!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you!

[@crochetcarri]

Great tutorial! I’ve done a little chart reading not much but you make it look easy!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Great! I hope it encourages you to try it more.

[@kateskogstad5066]

Great job Ellen, you are an excellent teacher! I would love it if you would also show how to read a diagram of different motifs. I love your instructional videos.

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you! Great idea!

[@pnwadventures2727]

Love you videos their so helpful and easy to follow

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you!

[@laurieogle2270]

Great chart reading lesson!! I always prefer a chart!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

It's so convenient! And so much faster!

[@carleenroberts6002]

Thank you for this tutorial, Ellen! I love crochet diagrams too!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you, Carleen!

[@nancyjones1060]

Now this. Is what you do best love it

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you!

[@kerryrandall6618]

This looks like a great stitch encyclopedia.

[@jygood3718]

What a great tutorial. Thanks

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you!

[@sweetmelisamakesmore5344]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

You’re welcome!

[@kraftyiam]

Howdy, can you tell me then how to interpret a stitch which appears as a: V with the x in the middle ? pattern reads: x then (that V with an x in the middle) then x - repeated Thank you for any assistance you may be able to offer

[@mwendapoleee]

Crochet is so forgiving either way i crochet 2together or do increase

[@sandratanner8138]

I really like the chart. It seems harder to loose your place in the pattern. I’m making a top that is hard to keep to with where you are. A chart would help. I think I’m over thinking the pattern. Because of that I have to keep, keep, keep looking back at the pattern. 🤪 That said it’s not a hard pattern. I love to carry my yarn up the side. So easy so as not to have so many ends to deal with. Thank you for the tutorial.

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you, Sandra!

[@bowbayc4466]

5目 means 5 stitches, 10目 means 10 stitches

[@coryfrank126]

Pattern. 115. Pretty

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

Thank you!

[@CraigsOverijse]

if you use google translate app with the camera it will tell you what the symbol means or what the tittle says

[@scstitcher2178]

Pocket works great! Lol

[@EllenGormleyCrochet]

:)

[@adeleromero7721]

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