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lady_schrapnell ([personal profile] lady_schrapnell) wrote2008-04-17 02:59 pm

Easy to be worth more than a thousand of mine.

Cover of *Dawn Wind*

Such a great cover - it tickles me every time I look at it. The manly, manly jaw and sharp pointy object so undercut by the stance and wrist limpness... (But is the pose This dagger will be used to pick my nose if necessary - it's my compensation or the more obvious Mention my flaming campness and I'll give you a free lobotomy?

Very interesting read, too - I was babbling to [livejournal.com profile] steepholm last night about a few of its oddities, including the fact that Regina, who has 'never had a mother or father' but was owned by a nasty old woman who sent her out begging in the streets of Vinconium, speaks with the perfect, rather formal language Rosemary Sutcliff uses for People from the Past.

Mrs Darcy the second

This is the more obvious type of happiness - my second completed (all except getting Younger Daughter to choose buttons and then sewing them on) Mrs Darcy cardigan. I'm thrilled to have it off the needles, sewn up and blocked, in large part because I kept making idiotic mistakes which made me sure I need a keeper. There were attempts to get pictures of her wearing it, but she claimed they were all horrible and they were on her camera so I couldn't just ignore her.

Silly, horribly immature pleasure provided by a thread on Ravlery about a new yarn (wrote 'yearn' first time!) called Fannie's Fingering. It *is* a US company, rather than a British or Australian one, and fingering *is* a weight of yarn, but still... Yes - this remains book-related - Fanny Burney - Fanny Price - Fanny Hi... never mind.

[identity profile] wyvernfriend.livejournal.com 2008-04-17 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
the cardigan looks beautiful.

[identity profile] lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com 2008-04-18 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks! The sleeves don't really flare out at the ends when on - that's an odd look - but it suits her well. Now just to get her to decide about buttons!