KNITSTER

I don’t know about Xiane or Pickleboot, but one thing I know that Helen and I have in our many commonalities is a love for British comediennes, French and Saunders.  Heaven knows Helen and I both love Ab Fab, and I know that Helen is big for the Vicar of Dibley. The last thing I saw Dawn French in, at least where I could pick her out, was as the “Lady in the Painting” for the door to the Griffindor dormitory in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”. 

Anyhow, little did any of us realize that Dawn French has something else in common with us, other than her humor? Check this out:

Who would have thunk it? Dawn French, co-writer of big girl knitting patterns?

I wouldn’t have guessed. I mean, it makes some sense, but her a knitter? Cool by me.  I’d be tempted to put these books on my Amazon Wish List (I did find them on Amazon, after all), but considering that they were published in 1990 and 1993 respectively, I’d be unsure until looking at them that the designs might actually look a little…dated. At least the sweaters on the covers, albeit very colorful and artsy sweaters, look dated. I’m a big girl, and I don’t need to look too dated right now. Most of the rest of my wardrobe is like that already, so I don’t need extra help with that.

Maybe we should write her and tell her to do an updated version, like Dawn Knits Again (much like the Kaffe Fassett book of some of his updated patterns that was out recently)? While there are some good big girl knit books out there (like the Big Girl Knits books by Jillian Moreno and Amy Singer), wouldn’t it be nice to have some more updated ones out there that doesn’t make us big girls look like grandmas or middle aged? (Okay, so I might be pretty much middle aged now. I don’t want to look like my mother just yet!)

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Dani
Filed under: General, Patterns, Shopping