FO: Another Book Cover

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FO - Another book cover

I was not sure whether I should start a new thread for this project, but after reading "how to use this forum" I gathered that each finished object gets its own thread.
I named it "another book cover" as I finished this one first.
A friend of the family heard about this and asked whether I could do the same for a book of hers. She finally had come round to read (and love) it, but also realised that the book could do with some protective cover.

As the world is full of coincidences, so was this. For the one book she asked me to make a cover for, is the other book my greataunt gave me. Or well, my version is a bit different - but that makes it so interesting. The original covers are the same in both editions of the book, but that is it. The one book is a "movie-edition" with movie stills like these:

The other one, or rather three - for it is a triology. This triology tells exactly the same story as the movie one - thicker pages and a bigger font. It is also illustrated, but with drawings rather than pictures - done by the well-known illustrator Anton Pieck.

I don't know from when these books are. The movie book is not from before 1951, as the movie did not come to the Netherlands before that year. The triology has to be from 1939 or later, according to the illustrations. But there have been quite a few printings, so they can even be from the 80's. Not that this is important, it just makes me wonder how people decide from what year a book is when it is not mentioned on the title page. I like to figure out mysteries like that

This project took over a month Or probably even longer... Mostly because I was set on a pattern on the spine which I couldn't figure out and was too stubborn to give up on - or to move past. I'll mention this again later.

The patterns used are from this book, just like the first book cover I knitted: The Encyclopedia of Knitting
However, the snowdrop pattern isn't in this edition of the book - I got it from the Dutch version in our local library. There is one extra page of "twist"-patterns in that one. I actually planned on making the spine in another pattern, but I couldn't figure out how. For now I decided to abort on this pattern, but one day I'll have the experience to make it
I stayed with the flower theme by adding a daisy (p53) and a tulip cable (p70). I thought would do a tulip cable on both sides of the book, and I did knitted another one. But when I laid it out I figured it would leave no room for the grey background and just did not look right.
For the background I just used the Moss stitch (p46), which is an alternation of a purl and a knit. And a basic rib (p57), with columns of two knits and two purls alternating.

SPINE

The lettering on the spine was actually just meant to be a "first try". I still had my mind set on the leaves-pattern, but I had to do something so I just tried some letters. I was quite sloppy, but when it was done I realised that I could not do it better if I tried to be neat - or so I like to think. A lucky first try
BTW, "Gejaagd door de wind" is the Dutch title of "Gone with the wind". The meaning is a bit different - I would translate it as "Hunted by the wind"
BACK

FRONT


I wanted to make this one less patched up than the first one, as it is a present. So this time I decided on the patterns beforehand - well, unless the one that didn't go well. As a result, the grey is really like a background. And as I knitted the flowers first, I could really knit the grey around them. It was a bit of a puzzle, but it meant less sewing