tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post3301699175948405406..comments2023-08-25T06:25:04.504-05:00Comments on BaxterKnits: Literary Knit -eraryCindy Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-65111532792896111442009-02-25T12:07:00.000-06:002009-02-25T12:07:00.000-06:00I love this topic! Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) is ...I love this topic! Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) is who got me interested in knitting! Mrs. Fairfax, housekeeper of Thornfield in Jane Eyre, is a knitter. And knitting figures into Agatha Christie novels and stories even more than just Miss Marple -- in Mrs. McGinty's Dead (a Poirot story), the murdered woman was fond of knitting in her lifetime, and numerous village ladies mention or purchase "knitting pins" or "knitting wool." I will do some research and try to find whether AG herself was a knitter, but it seems likely! Especially since Miss Marple sometimes counts her stitches aloud ("2 purl...yes, that's right.") Thanks for starting this fun topic!Sara Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08095754924336866700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-31285436083630675422007-01-18T16:39:00.000-06:002007-01-18T16:39:00.000-06:00I've got some kids books for you.
Mr. Nick's Knitt...I've got some kids books for you.<br />Mr. Nick's Knitting, about a man who knits on the bus and has a fellow commuter/knitter he befriends. <br /><br />Angelita's Magic Yarn, a story about Angelita and the other poor mountain people of Oru who knit all week long for a substitence living. Eventually there's disaster and redemtion.<br /><br />Then there's Derek the Knitting Dinosaur who survives the ice age because he knits. (Wonder how we'll fare in global warming?)<br /><br />Also, I once saw a Perry Mason book in which knitting figured into the resolution of the case, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you what it was.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04278529449974055377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-75300803603795731202007-01-03T21:22:00.000-06:002007-01-03T21:22:00.000-06:00Love, love, love the Monty Python
kmkat, library ...Love, love, love the Monty Python<br /><br />kmkat, library babe that she is, also sent me this link:<br /><br />http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=1546<br /><br />Good list of knitting novelsCindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-69870743054021850692007-01-03T00:14:00.000-06:002007-01-03T00:14:00.000-06:00Got another one for you. I just read this over in ...Got another one for you. I just read this over in the Welsh knitting topic in the Knitters Inc. group at www.librarything.com. <I><br />Interesting bit of trivia: We've been watching old Monty Python episodes this Christmas break, and Terry Jones (Welsh) in one of his old-lady personae IS ACTUALLY KNITTING (English, not continental style), not just faking. It's in the "Aliens turning people into Scotsmen" sketch.</i><br /><br />My husband is an MP maniac. I'll have to see if he has this one on video so I can watch it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-10963863710169159122007-01-01T12:52:00.000-06:002007-01-01T12:52:00.000-06:00A couple more.
I had iTunes playing while I was p...A couple more.<br /><br />I had iTunes playing while I was perusing JenLa's knitblogger award winners and heard this: "You got to pick up every stitch / Must be the season of the witch." I don't know if Donovan knew he was talking about knitting, but he was definitely Talking Knitting.<br /><br />And I just finished a braincandy kind of chiclit book, Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnik. The three main characters, late-20-something best friends, knit together every weekend. But they are knitters, not Knitters; they fly to Hawaii and 2 of them can't bring their knitting on the plane b/c they have metal needles. Sheesh. What self-respecting knitter doesn't plan ahead for this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-53919823432377210022006-12-26T10:49:00.000-06:002006-12-26T10:49:00.000-06:00"...'And she,' said Mrs. Smith, 'besides nursing m..."...'And she,' said Mrs. Smith, 'besides nursing me most admirably, has really proved an invaluable acquaintanc.-As soon as I could use my hands,she taught me to knit, which has been a great amusement; and she put me in the way of making these little thread-cases, pin-cushions and card-racks, which you always find me so busy about..."<br /> Jane Austen "Persuasion"Cindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-30683496240261571682006-12-16T12:42:00.000-06:002006-12-16T12:42:00.000-06:00Thanks Lunadog! Obscure is good! I'll have to do ...Thanks Lunadog! Obscure is good! I'll have to do a search for the books next time I'm at work at the library.<br /><br />I have been trying to catch Harriet Vane (Dorothy Sayers' character) in the act of knitting. So far, no luck. But in "Gaudy Night" one of the Oxford dons, Miss Edwards, is knitting herself a silk jumper during a rather tense discussion among the facultyCindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-3478826006219344762006-12-16T09:47:00.000-06:002006-12-16T09:47:00.000-06:00Here's one for the sci-fi bunch. In Kate Elliot's...Here's one for the sci-fi bunch. In Kate Elliot's Jaran series, Cara Hierakis, doctor and companion to Duke Charles Soerensen, is a knitter. She is travelling with a tribal society that knows weaving, but knitting is totally new to them. Check out "An Earthly Crown", Book one of "The Sword of Heaven". Yeah, it's obscure, but I love these books!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-18353693204441174212006-12-12T10:02:00.000-06:002006-12-12T10:02:00.000-06:00Thanks Monica! You reminded me that knitting need...Thanks Monica! You reminded me that knitting needles did figure into the murder in Harry Kemelman's "Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red".<br /><br />I had to do an Amazon search to remind me which one of the series this was in - thanks for the tip from MerigoldinWA on the About.com forumCindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-87482032605710218032006-12-12T01:21:00.000-06:002006-12-12T01:21:00.000-06:00Wups, forgot - Betsy also inherited an overweight ...Wups, forgot - Betsy also inherited an overweight cat, Sophie, with the craft shop. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-35191581068551181782006-12-12T01:18:00.000-06:002006-12-12T01:18:00.000-06:00Lurker here. ;) Character Betsy Devonshire of the ...Lurker here. ;) Character Betsy Devonshire of the Needlecraft mystery series by Monica Ferris (Mary Monica Pulver) owns a craft shop, sleuths, and as well as doing needlework, knits. (It comes out more in the later books. I think she learns as the books go along; in the first few she's more into various types of embroidery.) As the books feature plenty of her customers, several of the other characters knit, too.<br /><br />I don't know about Ferris; she definitely does needlework, but I'm not sure if she actually knits. Couldn't find any mention of that in her bio. However, a funny - a few years back on the rec.craft.textiles.yarn newsgroup, Ferris had posted a research question for a future book. She wanted to know if it was feasible to use knitting needles to murder someone, and if so, what would the best method be and what kind would they use? [vbg] Most people emailed her back, I think, but I did see quite a few answers on the newsgroup!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-41850154517508488502006-12-11T09:04:00.000-06:002006-12-11T09:04:00.000-06:00Julie sent this:
I've got two for you - Hermionie ...Julie sent this:<br />I've got two for you - Hermionie (sp?) in the Harry Potter books. She knits clothes for the house elves at Hogwarts. Also, Ron Weasley's mum knits a really hideous sweater for Harry for Christmas in the first book.Cindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-2919953629100423192006-12-10T20:20:00.000-06:002006-12-10T20:20:00.000-06:00Shasta2204 from the About.com forum had this to ad...Shasta2204 from the About.com forum had this to add:<br />Kelly Flynn in the Maggie Sefton books (along with her pals at the House of Lambspun. The books are Knit One, Kill Two, Needled to Death, and A Deadly Yarn.<br /><br />The characters in the Debbie McComber books--"The Little Shop on Blossom Street" and :A Good Yarn". <br /><br />And don't forget, all of us characters who write hereCindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-29336490704189038652006-12-10T17:17:00.000-06:002006-12-10T17:17:00.000-06:00Points to CBM and KMKat. I myself am trying to th...Points to CBM and KMKat. I myself am trying to think up a limerick starting "A Chicagoland Sheep named Dolores..." But that's as far as I've been able to get.<br /><br />Just dug this up, though<br />Joseph Addison (in The Spectator) makes reference to a young man knitting garters for his motherCindy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04450702213130426082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-23167103973122143152006-12-10T13:26:00.000-06:002006-12-10T13:26:00.000-06:00Ram-eo and J-ewe-lietRam-eo and J-ewe-lietAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-21176308994615631652006-12-09T12:24:00.000-06:002006-12-09T12:24:00.000-06:00Oh, boy -- limericks.
There once was a boy from B...Oh, boy -- limericks.<br /><br />There once was a boy from Berlin<br />Whose knitting was all outside in.<br />His floats were so long<br />They resembled a thong.<br />Problem was, they were wool, not cott-tin.<br /><br />More later...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32804163.post-51249124468171893102006-12-09T12:22:00.000-06:002006-12-09T12:22:00.000-06:00I love Miss Marple! OK, others - wouldn't Mrs Mar...I love Miss Marple! OK, others - wouldn't Mrs March knit? Or maybe it wasn't said in the story; I don't remember. And then there's Cat Bordhi; besides her knitting books she's written a fantasy novel. Last year National Geographic had a page about the global nature of knitting, or at least yarn. Plus there were a couple of news stories this spring about the Yarn Harlot's Knitting Olympics.CatBookMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13539824268008907535noreply@blogger.com