i doubt anyone will respond to this

[somethingunderthebedisdrooling]

but i wanted to share my musings with someone.

i found a knitting for babies book in spain with loads of cool (meaning easy and cute) patterns. its in spanish though and i am worried if it will be hard to translate them.

lots of socks, easy and intermediate cardis, booties of course, even trousers and grobags, stuffed toys, blankies, vests, knickers.... i'll be if i make a dog's breakfast at this.

Why wont they?

cause i can imagine people going 'uhm' and if i was talking about it, just glaze over.

Ah - people will respond - I'm sure you'll even get someone on here that would even translate a pattern for you if you really wanted them too - that's the beauty of Mumsnet - there are a few nice people still around!

I love your chatname, SUTBID.

oh i used to be something else and changed to this for halloween but thinking of keeping it.

i wanna have a go at translating it myself first. i have a fat spanish dictionary which seems to have all the words listed in the cover for the abbreviations. i am worried that in the skim i have given it, i haven't found 'purl' yet.

I once bought a knitting book in Norway...its still all unknitted! I go to the library and photocopy a pattern from a debbie bliss book sometimes when I get itchy fingers. Sorry I'm not being very helpful to you but I had to smile at someone doing the same daft thing as me, getting carried away by the pics and forgetting that I couldn't understand the instructions, hee hee!

Why don't you put this on a new thread entitled 'help wanted translating knitting pattern from Spanish to English' I bet you will get help in a jiffy.

I have some spanish translation books - am not tooo bad. Unfortunately I can't knit. Am of no use i think

oh fibberty, i am glad there are other people who do this sort of thing on holiday. i was on the costa blanca and love to nose around shops. i found a charity shop run by some english women and i found some knitting patterns circa 1979. I bought about four and repatriated them. a bargain and 50 centimos each.

The terms will be specialised jargon. I find knitting terms in French boggling, and I knit, and speak French.

I'm sure there are specialised websites to help, anyway. I'll find some when I'm back from the fair.

ooh, cool. i would like to be bilingual in knitting! i am quite competent with spanish but never attempted knitting with any of their magazines.

I have a Belgian friend who knits, and is always looking for help, but I can never remember what all the terms mean. I'm sure you'll get the knack of it, though, after all, it's the numbers that matter in knitting, right? (says she who never uses patterns anyway )

This page looks relevant, lots of links to knitting terms pages.

did i ever tell you that i love you NQC? that page is a livesaver and a timesaver.

mmmmwwwwwaaaahhhh!!

Glad you appreciate it!

hiya you're my first post.
there's loads of free downloads where you type in a word and they translate it for you.(smile)

or a bit off beat i know but if you have a costa in your town look at the staffs badges some have foreign flags on find a spanish one then ask them, they're always happy to help.

but will as many people respond as on the 250,000k one?

So have you knitted anything from the book yet?

every1 will look due to title of thresd. enjoy yr knitting if u ever manage to translate

Yeah, but standard translation tools (or translators) won't work for this - it's special jargon, and to translate, you need to be someone who knits bilingually. All the knitters I know only knit in one language. My french is pretty good, but I'd never bother buying a knitting book in french, because it'd be a mystery to me. (Ok, I lie, I would totally buy a knitting book in French, I love knitting books, just not pattern books )

There is a standard knitting thread that's live, and there are plenty of experienced knitters on here. But we do tend to assume that any thread in A+C that doesn't say knitting in the title is for the card makers, as there are about 7 billion of them, and they're mad as a bag of snakes.

And please, if you attempt to knit a jumper and it turns out looking like an octopus due to the translation procedure, feel free to post a photo on members profile

Thanks

(I keep wanting to knit things with extra sleeves just for the sake of it ... it seems like something that needs to be done ...)

no i haven't knitted anything from it yet. i am too busy decluttering my bookshelf to get ahem more books on it. and decluttering the shoe cupboard, and utility room... you get the picture, while spending too much time on mn.

i promise i will post whatever i knit - or attempt to knit from it.

nqc maybe you can knit a jumper for an octupus.

I was going to suggest roping in my big sis who lives in spain and is a translator by profession - but then read the threads about it being specialist translation and sorry, but she is the only one in my family who doesn't knit!!!!
I'll say it again, why don't you put a thread posted titled 'help wanted translating spanish knitting pattern' I am sure there will be SOMEONE on mumsnet who is good at spanish AND a knitter?
OR longshot here, try and find the publisher of your book via internet, email them and ask if they do english language versions of their patterns? I used to buy Pingouin books and they are french with an english supplement in the middle.

I think she is ok for translation. At least, I found a page which linked to a bunch of knitting translation glossary type things, including spanish/english ones.

This is now more of a knitting chat/people replying because the title says they won't sort of thing ...