I usually have a knitting project in mind when I write it into one of my books, but Laura’s apricot-colored shawl just kind of appeared upon the page as I was writing the first scene of Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 4: Betrayer , and it surprised even me. I immediately went to my yarn stash to find a yarn for it, and I searched through my antique knitting books to find some stitch patterns. I made her an elegant wool shawl she could wear at home. The shawl ended up tagging along with Laura into the next book, Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 5: Prisoner , where it imparts some comfort to her in her trying circumstances. The two stitch patterns are both from the same book, The Lady’s Assistant, volume 2 by Mrs. Jane Gaugain, published in 1842 . A couple excessively clever and creative knitters might have knit these patterns in the Regency era, but they would have only passed them around by word of mouth or scribbled “recipes” to friends or family, and it wouldn’t have been widely use
Downright adorable.
ReplyDeleteHe's cuter than my mutt! haha I think he's adorable.......ugly.....but adorable. lol
ReplyDeleteHe's endearing. :)
ReplyDeletecute, cute, cute! VERY cute. :)
ReplyDeleteHe's handsome in a rugged sort of way. ; )
ReplyDeleteI think he's so ugly that he's cute.
ReplyDeleteHe has his "own" adorable look. You just want to hug him.
ReplyDeleteHahaha ... he is so weird looking it makes him cute. He's 1/2 scottie and 1/2 pomerian. What you can't see from this photo is his "beard" and the tuffs of lion fun around his neck.
ReplyDeleteHe is a sweetie, though. He sits ON my feet as I write.
I've seen Jake in person...he's so ugly he's cute!
ReplyDeleteHe's absolutely adorable, in a homewrecker-sort-of-way. He could persuade you to take him home, despite that fact that you're not allowed to have dogs in your apartment building and your husband is allergic to dogs and you have three cats who hate dogs . . . And still, you would find a way to keep him! AND he would be your best friend. He would understand all your problems and never tell your secrets. This guy is Toto, all the way. You would run away from home just to keep him!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard the saying, "So ugly he's cute?" Nah, the puppy's cute.
ReplyDeleteWell, I vote cute, but I'm really partial to Scots, even halvlings (is that a word?)
ReplyDeleteMy little West Highland Terror sits on my feet, too. Extremely loyal dogs, the Terrors are.
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I think he's cute in a Billy Crystal sort of way. ;-)
ReplyDeleteOh no! He's precious...absolutely precious!
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