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April 28th 15 01:28 PM

Translate Dutch knitting pattern to English

Hi,

Does anyone on here speak/read Dutch?
I have a cute bunny sweater pattern I want to make, but it's written in Dutch. I have tried to google translate, but it comes out jumbled. There are knitting short form abbreviation that I can not for the life of me figure out. I have googled them with no luck.
Is there anyone that could help me translate the pattern or maybe just help me with the abbreviated?
Thanks for your help

Nyssa[_2_]

April 28th 15 03:01 PM

Translate Dutch knitting pattern to English

wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone on here speak/read Dutch?
I have a cute bunny sweater pattern I want to make, but
it's written in Dutch. I have tried to google translate,
but it comes out jumbled. There are knitting short form
abbreviation that I can not for the life of me figure out.
I have googled them with no luck. Is there anyone that
could help me translate the pattern or maybe just help me
with the abbreviated? Thanks for your help

I've been translating German lace knitting patterns into
English. Perhaps Dutch and German would be close enough
to figure out?

links = perl and rechts = knit in German. Is there anything
that looks near to that in your pattern? If so, we can try
from there.

HTH

Nyssa, who really needs to get back to those lace knitting patterns

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April 28th 15 03:18 PM

Translate Dutch knitting pattern to English

Thanks for the reply.

I've been able to get a lot of the words. The main problem is the short form abbreviation. Like IED. When I google that in Dutch is has to do with bombs lol. I've tried looking for short form abbreviations online, but I only get the long form.

Nyssa[_2_]

April 28th 15 06:51 PM

Translate Dutch knitting pattern to English

wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

I've been able to get a lot of the words. The main problem
is the short form abbreviation. Like IED. When I google
that in Dutch is has to do with bombs lol. I've tried
looking for short form abbreviations online, but I only
get the long form.

Perhaps someone over on ravelry.com could help?

Another possibility would be to look for a how-to-knit website
in Dutch with diagrams of each instruction, then work backwards
from that to figure out the abbreviations.

Time for some detective work!

Nyssa, who used several sources to figure out the German terms

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April 29th 15 01:14 PM

Translate Dutch knitting pattern to English

Good idea. I will give it a try.
Thanks for the help :)

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