What’s Past is Prologue
the parisian coat
(originally posted 6 October 2011) Crossposted to my Dreamwidth blog, where you can read all about this project to make my own winter coat from a 1940s French pattern.
News
e wein on percy jackson
(originally posted 5 October 2011) Here at http://www.smartpopbooks.com/1136 I have an an essay on disability in the Percy Jackson series: It’ll be there till Tuesday 11 Oct 2011, when it’ll revert to excerpt mode.
Historical Writers’ Association review of CNV
(originally posted 3 October 2011) Manda Scott of the Historical Writers’ Association has managed to post the first review of Code Name Verity on my birthday. Thank you, Manda – it is a lovely present! Seeing as the book’s still 4…
The WAAF Doll and the Diddy Things
(originally posted 21 September 2011) For the uninitiated, WAAF stands for Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (and it’s pronounced waf to rhyme with laugh if you’re American, or to rhyme with caff’ if you’re British). Another friend (not the knitting…
The Verity Sweater
(originally posted 20 September 2011)This was Knitting Project No. 2. Its namesake sweater has a personality in its own right in CNV, but mine did not exist in reality until several months after the book was finished. There was some debate over…
Maddie’s mittens
(originally posted 20 September 2011)I’d not done any knitting for about 14 years when a friend pointed me to this pattern. I worked on these mittens while writing the last half of CNV and came to associate them with Maddie Brodatt…
New Look, 2011
(originally posted 14 September 2011) Did you know that the term “new look” in fashion dates to Paris immediately after World War II? I associate the term with 1) easy sewing patterns, and 2) a women’s clothing chain. Now I have gone all retro…