Monday, 4 March 2013

It's My Party and I'll Hold a Competition If I Want To...

As you may or may not know, I shall be 40 years old in April.  In order to celebrate this jolly occasion I thought a bit of a competition may be fun, you know, as something to do in between all the drinking and sobbing over my lost youth.

Now, those who follow me on Facebook will have seen the little knitted Rossetti I made a couple of months ago...


Because he looked so lonely, I made him a little Pre-Raphaelite companion.  The question is....Who have I knitted?

Send me your guesses before I become 40 years old (sob!) at 7.10am on 4th April 2013 and I shall send a signed copy of Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth to the person who gets it right.

Also, if you are feeling crafty, have a go at making your own Pre-Raphaelite companion and send me a photo.  A copy of Stunner will be awarded to the one that makes me squeal the loudest.

Go on, you know you want to...

All entries to stonellwalker@googlemail.com before breakfast on the 4th April and good luck to you all!
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20 comments:

  1. Freyalyn4 March 2013 at 13:02

    It can't be anyone but Lizzie! You've knitted him a little Lizzie Siddal! Obviously....

    Am very tempted by this, if I can find the time. I rather fancy knitting a Fanny, or a Effie!

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  2. Rhissanna4 March 2013 at 13:22

    Lizzie Lizzie! I hope it's Lizzie! And don't let this influence you in ANY way, but 4th April is my birthday too!

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  3. Kirsty Stonell Walker4 March 2013 at 13:32

    Now Ladies, I've said before I could never knit a Fanny because I'd just end up giggling before I told anyone...

    Rhissanna, all the best people are born on the 4th of the 4th :)

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    1. Rhissanna13 March 2013 at 03:45

      Of course! Me and you and Robert Downey Jr.

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  4. Willaim Morris4 March 2013 at 15:27

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  5. Gretchen am Spinnrade4 March 2013 at 16:42

    Jane Burden, when she was still just a Oxford girl selling violets!

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  6. Caroline4 March 2013 at 16:53

    a wombat ?

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  7. Kirsty Stonell Walker4 March 2013 at 16:56

    All splendid guesses, my friends. Keep them coming!

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  8. Pre-RaphaeliteNeoVictorian4 March 2013 at 17:05

    Is it Algernon Charles Swinburne?

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  9. R. A.4 March 2013 at 17:09

    I have no idea, but now I'm itching to try to use my meager knitting skills to create a little Pre Raphaelite cutie! :)

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  10. Samantha4 March 2013 at 17:44

    I second Caroline's wombat suggestion! If human, though, let's not forget Christina! She could keep little Knit Gabriel company whilst keeping him in check with a bit of healthy sisterly disapproval.

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  11. Alison4 March 2013 at 20:07

    I thought wombat at first too - but maybe brother William?

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  12. simon.poe4 March 2013 at 20:37

    A knitted Ned would be a fine thing (and I have to say that woolly Gabriel has made an old man very happy) so I'll plump for Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bart, since no-one else has suggested that yet. Incidentally, I shall be sixty on 8 April, so stop all that sobbing. Things carry on getting better for some time yet, I promise.

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  13. rugged breed5 March 2013 at 01:45

    That doll was so creepy but still cute and nice to have one.

    Zero Dramas

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  14. Kirsty Stonell Walker5 March 2013 at 06:56

    Simon, you don't look a day over 21, unlike me, who looks like a raddled old heap. Really, none of the photos I use are of me, I employ a buxom barmaid from a Carry On film for all my publicity shots.

    Thanks everyone for your guesses, I now wish I had knitted *all* of these, and perhaps I will (and publish a Pre-Raphaelite knitting book) ;)

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  15. Raine Szramski6 March 2013 at 00:25

    Ooh, if I could knit, I'd make myself a little Topsy and Ned. Hear that, Grace???

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  16. Kirsty Stonell Walker6 March 2013 at 05:46

    I have little day dreams about turning your designs into screen-printed dolls, Raine. Obviously that is both sad and wonderful all at the same time ;)

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  17. Ellie Foster6 March 2013 at 12:13

    Dear Kirsty
    Not Pre Raphaelite but wouldn't it be Dante's Beatrice? Probably looking like a mixture of Lizzie Siddall, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris. Now that would be a challenge to knit! Or it could be Dante himself, of course?
    (I have to say I find your Rossetti a little disturbing - perhaps he reminds me of a vampire - but I think I would have found the real Rossetti more than a little disturbing.)
    Best wishes
    Ellie

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  18. Kirsty Stonell Walker17 March 2013 at 09:09

    If it's any comfort Jenny, I have the same problems with Wordpress being a Blogger person!

    Thanks for your comments, I never thought about the PRB and punk before but you're right. I wonder if that is why the 60s and 70s were such a renaissance for Pre-Raphaelite art as people began to see echoes of their former selves in the artists of the past.

    This is such fun, I should knit Victorians more often....

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