What (Else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?

What (Else) Would Madame Defarge Knit?

She’s back. Madame Thérèse Defarge, from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, worked the names of the condemned into her knitting as she sat near the ever-active revolutionary guillotines. But Dickens never described what she knit.

As in the beloved first volume (What Would Madame Defarge Knit?), these 28 patterns bring together a host of knitting talent to imagine what their beloved fictional characters would knit and wear. From Tristan and Iseult to Jane Bennet to Miss Marple, characters from many of your favorite books finally get the knitwear they deserve.

Golden Gate Shawl

Fosco's Pret-pret-pretties

Laura Louise Layette

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Ode to Spring VI: A Spring Wedding

Visit our nation's capitol to see the Cherry Blossoms, dance at your sister's Spring wedding or gift her and her bridegroom a hand knit afghan for their new home, celebrate!
 
"I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. 
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, 
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes."

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Sivia Harding Cherry Blossom Socks

Jane Thornley Golden Blossoms

Sivia Harding Blossom Dearies

Fiber Dreams Dancing Shoes

Schaefer White Water Afghan

Dawn Brocco
Winter Harbor Collection
Country Nights Afghan

With Love for the Family: 4 New Laura Aylor Designs

Think Spring 

with one of these 

New Laura Aylor designs. 

Babycakes

 Knit top down and seamless Babycakes includes 4 sizes.

Burn

Shalimar

Woodsmoke

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all of Aylor's patterns.

Ode to Spring V: Take Wing

The Robin is the One 

That interrupt the Morn 

With hurried — few — express Reports 

When March is scarcely on – 

The Robin is the One 

That overflow the Noon 

With her cherubic quantity – 

An April but begun – 

The Robin is the One 

That speechless from her Nest 

Submit that Home — and Certainty A

nd Sanctity, are best 

Emily Dickinson

Tiny Owl Knits Sweet Robin Wrist-ees

Susan Lawrence Feather Duster

JOJI Dragonflies Jumper

HeartStrings Dragonfly Dreams Lace Scarf

Tiny Owl Knits The Beekeeper's Quilt

Flapper Madness: Clara Cloche

Clara 

by Theressa Silver 

Clara

Invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux nothing defines the roaring 20's Flapper's style like the Cloche.  This fitted, bell shaped hat kept their bobbed hair neatly in place as they feverishly danced the Charleston!  Bring your inner Jazz Baby to life with Silver's Clara!
  Clara is part of the new eBook Hat Couture which features 13 timeless designs.

If you only wear hats to keep you warm, Theressa Silver's eBook Hat Couture will truly turn your head around.

Designer Silver starts from the assumption that a hat is a statement piece. A great hat projects style or courage or mischief or sultriness—or all of the above.

Are you feeling more like Marlene Dietrich, Lucille Ball, or Grace Kelly today? Make a hat for every mood. Silver’s clear, easy-to-follow instructions allow even beginners to knit and embellish their own stunning toppers.

Ode to Spring IV: The Flowers

"Spring comes: 

the flowers learn their colored shapes." 

Maria Konopnicka 

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."
Lady Bird Johnson 

"Each flower is a soul opening out to nature."
Gerald De Nerval 

"The Earth Laughs in Flowers."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gardiner Yarn Works' Path of Flowers Stole

Noni Peony Little Purse in Crochet

Mia Rinde Growing Flowers

Schaefer Dogwood Blossom Wrap

Mia Rinde Pasque Flower

Dawn Brocco Flower Baby Blanket

Dawn Brocco Baby's Crochet Baby Blanket

Mia Rinde Bring Me Flowers

Ode to Spring III: A Trellis of Vines

A fairy seed I planted, 

so dry & white and old, 

there sprang a vine enchanted, 

with magic flowers of gold. 

Marjorie Barrows 

Noni Clematis Shopping Bag

Gardiner Yarn Works' Tangled Vine Socks

Sivia Harding Twining Vines Strip Lace Afghan

Susan Lawrence On The Vine