Co-ordination

   Surrounded as I am by books and yarn, I'm playing the idle game of co-ordinating reading and knitting, so here are a few examples from the current tottering book pile and the similarly growing yarn collection.
Not as obvious from the picture as in the flesh but the pale aqua of the jacket of Victoria Hislop's The Return, a dance-themed novel set in Spain, is a great match for this Shetland yarn (though there's precious little flamenco to be found in Lerwick, I imagine).


The black lace of the Kidsilk Haze scarf might suggest a fichu or shawl from Richardson's Pamela though would it inflame Mr. B, if worn by the eponymous heroine?


The sea greens and blues of this skein pick up on the maritime cover of Lloyd Jones's The Book of Fame,

  while the massive hedge on the front of Kipling's Selected Stories is perfect with the scarf in Posh Yarn Sophia "Undergrowth".

Comments

[Barbara MacLeod]

What, exactly, is a fichu?

[Peter the flautist]

The flamenco guitarists Eduardo Niebla and Juan Martin played in Lerwick in 2004 and 2006 respectively.

[Margaret Powling]

What wonderful combinations of yarns (no pun intended!) and books!

[Peter the flautist]

A fichu (presumably from the French se ficher) is worn to cover the low neckline of a bodice. Here is a classic picture of one being worn: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/
Gullager_Salisbury.jpg

I guess you might describe it as a bit like a scarf, folded (usually) into a triangle, and worn over the shoulders and fixed at the front. Beware that in current French "fichu" would be translated as a mild expletive!

[adele geras]

Love the knitting/books combo! And those yarns are fantastic! I am going to have a look over on the knitting bit of the blog to see if the kidsilk 'fichu'...yes, beware saying it in Modern French!...is written about there. Nice reminder too, to get hold of Rudyard K!