Still Knitting

Posted by on Jan 17, 2012 in Blog Fun, Defarginess, Knitting | 2 comments

I just returnecd from signing books at Vogue Knitting Live absolutely brimming with design ideas and new book plans and there just aren’t enough hours in the day. I am SO excited! What gloriously wonderful people I met absolutely everywhere I went (even at the Irish Pub where I had breakfast on Sunday! He wasn’t a knitter when we started talking, but now that we spoke… who knows?). I’m going to be posting a few patterns...

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Holiday Freebie—redux

Posted by on Dec 18, 2011 in Artsy Things, Blog Fun, Defarginess |

Last year on the Dickens blog hop we offered this over on the What Would Madame Defarge Knit? website. Now it’s here for you! Holiday Freebies for You! A gift from us to you—Christmas Cards from the Good Madame (who is only interested in righting wrongs and vanquishing injustice, after all…which is almost sort of in the spirit of the season…mostly…) Based on the art used in the Crachette Pattern from the Dickens of...

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KaLs for WWMDfK!

Posted by on Sep 20, 2011 in Artsy Things, Blog Fun, Defarginess, Knitting, Shawls |

Oh oh oh oh! I have news! New KAL for you—Chrissy Gardiner (of sock fame and lore) is going to host our first What Would Madame Defarge Knit? Knit-a-Long! We’ll be starting with her gorgeous Wilhelmina Shawlette—a pattern that shouldn’t intimidate anyone, it’s a shawlETTE after all. And if you’re not a lace knitter (ahem, yet) fear not. This is an EXCELLENT pattern to start with. There have already been...

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