Look what I got!
Victorian Lace Today, of course, needs no introduction. You can see the rave review here with lots of snapshots of the projects. It really is a lovely book with lovely patterns, and I also love the fact that this book has lots of patterns for rectangular shawls and scarves. I’m more of a scarf person than a shawl person myself, although I like shawls for special occasions, and unfortunately triangular shawls don’t look very good on me (although this book has one of the most beautiful triangular shawls I have ever seen). For me, I have my eyes on the Melon shawl which is on the front cover. And I’m thinking of making one of the scarves for my mum.
The other book is Iro Iro Nuigurumi (ISBN 4579109783), which has the cutest nuigurumi (rag dolls) patterns. Here are some of my favourites.
While doing a bit of research on the Internet, I came across Aranzi Aronzo, the company and designers that produced this book, and found that they also have a shop with their own line of fabrics, appliques, stationery, etc. So. Much. Cuteness!
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Great books! I need to look closer at the lace book – I agree with you on stoles and scarves – they are more versatile than triangular shawls. Great doll book too – those are so cute 😉
Those guys are painfully cute!
Very cute looking toys!
They look like two fantastic books. The toys look great in the second book.
those toys are so cute and the lace book!! wow!!! did you order from amazon?
Michelle, I actually got these books at Kinokuniya. I’ve had the lace book on my amazon wishlist for a while. But then I went to Kinokuniya looking for a sewing book, unfortunately they didn’t have what I wanted, but found these two books instead and just couldn’t help myself 🙂
I’ve had my eye on VLT for a while now… I’ve just got to finish a couple things before I can get into lace. Those toys are so cute! Love the turtle pile.
Victorian Lace Today is mega popular these days! So popular that most certainly I’ll order one for me! Enjoy yours!
I received Victorian Lace Today for Xmas, and I think their projects are lovely as well. I also like the fact that they use a wide variety of colors.
As for the toys, I like the dog one especially!
I was in Kinokuniya on the weekend and nearly faited from the cuteness of the Japanese Craft section!!