{"id":4281,"date":"2025-06-15T06:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:32:52","slug":"gerards-red-and-black-scarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/15\/gerards-red-and-black-scarf\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerard’s red and black scarf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gerard's<\/a><\/p>\n

Camy\/Camille here! As I write this blog post, I\u2019m working on finishing “The Spinster’s Christmas,” a new Regency romance short novel that will be included in the upcoming Inspy Kisses anthology, Mistletoe Kisses<\/i><\/a>. The anthology features 7 other authors with me and includes contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance stories.<\/p>

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It was absolutely fascinating to research Christmas in the Regency, and especially kissing boughs. \ud83d\ude42 There is a scene where the house party goes skating, and my heroine, Miranda, has lost her scarf (in an earlier scene). The hero, Gerard, gallantly gives her his scarf, which is knit in red and black.<\/p>\n

Knitting patterns were called receipts because they were literally received from someone, passed down from generation to generation. There is a receipt of a Gentleman\u2019s Comforter in the book, The Ladies\u2019 Knitting and Netting Book, First Series<\/i> by Miss Watts, originally published in 1837. You can download the .pdf of the Fifth Edition, with additions, which was published in 1840<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am fairly certain that although this knitting book, one of the first of its kind, was published after the Regency era, the patterns were probably much in use during the Regency period and perhaps even in the Georgian era before that. The patterns simply were passed from friends and families by word of mouth or hand-written patterns.<\/p>\n

I based my hero\u2019s scarf after this Gentleman\u2019s Comforter pattern, although I embellished it a bit by having it knit in red and black rather than a single color. Here\u2019s the original pattern from the book:<\/p>\n

\"Gentleman's<\/a><\/p>\n

I am going to knit this! It looks to be made with very fine yarn, probably lace weight or fingering weight yarn. My yarn is ordered and I\u2019ll be posting my progress. I\u2019ll also rewrite the original pattern to make it easier for today\u2019s knitters. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Want to knit this with me? Let me know!<\/p>\n

Update: Part 2 is here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Originally posted 2014-11-03 06:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

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Camy\/Camille here! As I write this blog post, I\u2019m working on finishing “The Spinster’s Christmas,” a new Regency romance short novel that will be included in the upcoming Inspy Kisses anthology, Mistletoe Kisses. The anthology features 7 other authors with me and includes contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance stories. It was absolutely fascinating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,169,488,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-holiday","category-fashion","category-knitting-2","category-regency-romance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}