May 26, 2005

Knit the Classics

A few weeks ago I joined a knitting/reading-along called Knit the Classics. The girls running it, Amanda and Stephanie, are so organized! The whole idea is that we are going to be reading the same classic book together, and knitting different projects from around that era. Or at least look, or sound like they are from that era:) Amanda has already posted a HUGE list of both free and for purchase patterns that fit with the theme. We voted last week, and Middlemarch is going to be the first book that we read, starting June 1st! Come join us if you love to read the classics!! The girls have all kinds of links to free sources of the book...so if you don't want to purchase the book, you don't have to! Aww the wonders of the internet! When and if we ever read a book by Jane Austen....I'm going to have to knit the Pemberley Shawl. I think that this is going to be a really fun group. I love the idea of knitting things that the characters in the book that I'm reading might have knit!!

Here are some buttons that I designed for the group...if you take them, you know the drill, save them to your own server! Enjoy!!

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Posted by Stacey at May 26, 2005 04:47 PM
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I love the Pemberley...does it have a hood? Wonder if you could knit it with the Shine yarn we've talked about. The book looks interesting!

Posted by: Marsha at May 26, 2005 05:25 PM

I see buttons!!! And they are nice buttons too! Thanks bunches I will add them to the blog...

Amanda

Posted by: Amanda at May 26, 2005 07:18 PM

Love the buttons! I want them all - can I have more than one on my blog? :)

Posted by: stephanie at May 26, 2005 09:11 PM

i said i would not join any knit alongs etc for awhile, but this is just too neat. i emailed already to try and join.

and the pemberly is to die for! man i am such a hugh jane austen fan. this is going to be fun! thanks for the link stacey!!

Posted by: amy at May 26, 2005 10:40 PM

I'm joining in! I had told Amanda that I maybe would ... but I'm there now! (Just got Middlemarch as a book on tape from the library -- yea!)

Posted by: Jenifer at May 27, 2005 06:49 AM

I was going to tease you and ask if you should wait and knit Pemberley when you all read Pride and Prejudice. :) But then I remembered, there is a Pride and Prejudice/Middlemarch connection. When you get to the last chapter of Middlemarch, the narrator "wraps" up the story in a way that sort of rewrites P&P's concluding remarks... when you get there, compare it... ;) It will make you look very erudite in the book discussion (it worked in a grad school paper for me!)

Posted by: Stacie at May 28, 2005 01:22 AM

Silly me! You did write that you were waiting until... but maybe you could say that George Eliot was rewriting P&P's romance narrative...and knit Pemberley!

Posted by: Stacie at May 28, 2005 01:25 AM

Love this idea! For Middlemarch, perhaps knit a snood? I see a lot of shawls coming out of this club.

Can't wait to see the Family Buttonholes. The family that felts together, feels together. Or something like that.

xoxo Kay

Posted by: Kay at May 31, 2005 07:45 AM