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
I pretty much underuse it too. I list my books and read the comments from others in my groups but do not do much else. I belong to four groups - Love Inspired, Q&A with Camy Tang, The Gateroom (for Stargate fans) and The Wagon (for those who post to The Wagon, a Yuku forum for stitchers, about their books). The Gateroom has been quiet for some months now.
ReplyDeleteYay! Thanks for belonging to my Goodreads group! Not that I, er, have done anything recently ...
DeleteWow there's a Stargate group? Too bad it's not more active. My friend (and author) Dineen Miller LOVES Stargate.
YAY!! A Love Inspired member! I was just on there today wondering what I could do to make it more active. :)
ReplyDeleteOops I forgot to mention Love Inspired and the LIH group on Goodreads, too!
DeleteGiveaways always make people happy. I'd be willing to giveaway some Formula for Danger copies. I just discovered a box of them I had "put away" to keep them safe, and then forgot about them entirely.
Want me to ask the LI authors YahooGroup, too?
I started Christian Fiction Fans.
ReplyDeleteThanks for letting me know!
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