tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post8424861550943808579..comments2024-03-19T03:17:32.682-04:00Comments on The Panopticon: Her Best Friend Is a FairyFranklinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03670441931649806878noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-991158110503600672012-07-25T21:49:43.550-04:002012-07-25T21:49:43.550-04:00Read the sewing book, if you haven't yet. Aun...Read the sewing book, if you haven't yet. Aunt Maria scolds her for leaving the sewing room a mess and then very fussily teaches Mary Frances how to make buttonholes, thus inciting the wrath of all the Thimble People.AztecQueen2000https://www.blogger.com/profile/09371826731550331938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-56028901813491548562012-03-27T22:57:10.514-04:002012-03-27T22:57:10.514-04:00I love these books. I loved reading them to my gir...I love these books. I loved reading them to my girls. We bought them boxes filled with sewing and knitting equipment and let them "play". The older 2 girls sewed skirts for the younger 2 girls plus all their dolls.<br /><br />my 15 yr old now knits, crochets, weaves, spins on her own wheel and spindles....and they hide fairy treats for the 6 yr old.<br />i totally blame mary frances!<br /><br /> Flying fairy Fairly Flew.<br />thamks for sharing the article!YarnYentanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-19421929687721934562011-05-05T04:18:07.467-04:002011-05-05T04:18:07.467-04:00Not only do I want this book, I NEED this book.
T...Not only do I want this book, I NEED this book.<br /><br />That and I have to rename my favourite crochet hook.TuesdayFortnitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-22453414047858049102008-08-27T00:03:00.000-04:002008-08-27T00:03:00.000-04:00This is great! I never knew there was a knitting/c...This is great! I never knew there was a knitting/crochet book in the series. I have my great grandmother's copy of the sewing book and I used to make doll clothing from it all the time when I was younger (Mary Marie is terribly needy indeed). Your review was hilarious though. Thanks so much for sharing!Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06770631554395858719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-17286576281201408122008-03-07T14:10:00.000-05:002008-03-07T14:10:00.000-05:00Mary Frances learns real skills using real tools a...<I>Mary Frances learns real skills using real tools and is taught the basics in order to make things on her own using her own ingenuity to benefit herself and others.</I><BR/><BR/>Which is why I enjoyed the Waldorf school my kids attended (K-8) for so many years. Handwork is part of the curriculum -- and not as an afterthought, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-58065819641803133332008-03-05T14:34:00.000-05:002008-03-05T14:34:00.000-05:00You know, I forgot about this book! Ancestors, I h...You know, I forgot about this book! Ancestors, I had loaned my copy out; bad business.<BR/><BR/>I have to revisit it. Thanks!Saharahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07772322554265788725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-12983153143417742092008-03-04T15:45:00.000-05:002008-03-04T15:45:00.000-05:00I have the sewing book - original not facsimile. J...I have the sewing book - original not facsimile. Just opened it at random - Mary Frances is going to make a fur lined cape for the doll - and she went and overruled the Scissors, who thought she would want to use the cat for the fur lining.<BR/><BR/>This is a book for children?jeanfromcornwallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10062674591619616456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-45788602104134059892008-03-03T11:24:00.000-05:002008-03-03T11:24:00.000-05:00Thanks for the review, somehow Aunt Maria made me ...Thanks for the review, somehow Aunt Maria made me remember an old move Tatie Danielle that is about a rather nasty aunt. I think I will have to buy this book, I wish I had one when my kids were growing up then I could have made treats about buying them that bloody doll ( they would have driven the aunt to day drinking without braking a sweat,so no threat there )StashDivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01224301379622986822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-61003104021847496892008-03-02T13:49:00.000-05:002008-03-02T13:49:00.000-05:00Little Mary Frances is holding that right needle l...Little Mary Frances is holding that right needle like a pencil. Was that how Fairly Flew the Fairy taught her? For shame, FF, for shame.<BR/><BR/>I for one think you would raise delightfully cynical and intelligent children. (Just like mine, in fact :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-49150482962041180362008-03-01T17:05:00.000-05:002008-03-01T17:05:00.000-05:00I had to laugh at this-- my partner is an antique ...I had to laugh at this-- my partner is an antique book dealer and I think we have a copy of this book-- certainly we have a bunch of the other Mary Frances books. www.handsomebooks.com. <BR/><BR/>I wrote the descriptions for all the books we have on the website, but frankly I think you would have done a much better job.Krista McCurdyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965026413390769906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-53183301667210932682008-03-01T00:06:00.000-05:002008-03-01T00:06:00.000-05:00I've ordered one for myself now! I bought from Al...I've ordered one for myself now! I bought from Alibris.com .... much less expensive and many more available than at Amazon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-24690569292508460332008-02-29T18:26:00.000-05:002008-02-29T18:26:00.000-05:00Hi Franklin,I have all the Mary Frances books (and...Hi Franklin,<BR/><BR/>I have all the Mary Frances books (and a set of note cards with Mary Frances illustrations on them) bought because I thought they would look cute on my shelves, me being named Mary Frances, but I never really read any of them. I'm making a beeline to do that now, thanks to your hysterical review. Who knew I had such treasures just sitting around?<BR/><BR/>Through my childhood I just went by "Mary" - until I got to college (a Catholic women's college) where everyone else was named "Mary". There everyone had to go by both first and second names or no one would know who was who. So I changed from Mary to Mary Frances. <BR/><BR/>We have no spinster Aunt Maria's in our family but we do have a spinster Aunt Kate who, in her youth, worked as a nurse for an eye surgeon. Because of her position, she was in possession of a glass eye. My sisters and I never learned any dometic skils from Aunt Kate who had none (and who's now 85 and still has none, but she would let us shine her shoes in exchange for getting to play with the glass eye.<BR/><BR/>What kind of "people" would I have halucinated while staying with Aunt Kate were I a little more perceptive or had Aunt Kate allowed me more than a few sips of her nightly beers? Hmmm, care to collaborate on a new set of Mary Frances books for a new generation?<BR/><BR/>P.S. Does little Euphemia Gladys looks as cute as your niece? How about including her in your portrait for the new book so we can see? I can just see her with her little crook staff thing leading Dolores to school with her!! Euphemia Gladys had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-49469949341081810482008-02-29T11:09:00.000-05:002008-02-29T11:09:00.000-05:00Lovely post, I enjoy old children's books myself. ...Lovely post, I enjoy old children's books myself. Especially "how to" books. <BR/><BR/>Am I the only one who's rather startled when Franklin swears?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679234086009872089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-59435498684076188812008-02-29T10:02:00.000-05:002008-02-29T10:02:00.000-05:00Euphemia Gladys? You sure you're not part Mexican...Euphemia Gladys? You sure you're not part Mexican, or maybe Dominican??<BR/><BR/>I'm Dominican. I have aunts with all kinds of crazy names. One, Aproniana (I can't remember her two middle names cuz they're too hard to spell), was quickly shortened to Aniana. Neither of those two names would've helped the child survive in any school in the good ol' U. S. of A. these days.<BR/><BR/>And Aunt Maria - she's definitely one of my aunts, too. :PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-51792928819541583962008-02-28T23:48:00.000-05:002008-02-28T23:48:00.000-05:00This book has shot up to #11 on Amazon's crochet b...This book has shot up to #11 on Amazon's crochet bestsellers list. Behold the power of Franklin!Yarn or Deathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07624819935659191785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-33956812072450652232008-02-28T21:06:00.000-05:002008-02-28T21:06:00.000-05:00I've always envisioned a future with my shawl and ...I've always envisioned a future with my shawl and my bitterness to keep me warm. You really need to practice to get a good warm bitterness, though. None of this half-arsed whiney sort.<BR/><BR/>The cover of that book is giving me flashbacks to a series of books I used to havem, involving the adventures (in rhyme, natch) of a band of sticky, chubby little children, adn then the elegant sylphs they turned into, whose idea of an exciting evening was playing 'hide the slipper'<BR/><BR/>Hmmm... I wonder what happened to those books?<BR/><BR/>Also, the damn doll's attitude reminds me of my sister - on teh one hand, it's nice to knit for someone who appreciates your work. On the other hand... knit it your d**m self!Kaviarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08409825601485451978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-91976844079409628092008-02-28T19:06:00.000-05:002008-02-28T19:06:00.000-05:00Mary Frances, Aunt Maria, and Mary Marie...must've...<I>Mary Frances, Aunt Maria, and Mary Marie...must've been a good Catholic family!</I><BR/><BR/>In my family, there was a Margaret, then a Mary, then a Margaret, then a Mary ... kind of like an Irish Goodfellas, with the Peter and Paul thing.<BR/><BR/>Our best friends were <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun " REL="nofollow">leprechauns</A>.fireflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08288800598812287691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-18516127163246384272008-02-28T19:04:00.000-05:002008-02-28T19:04:00.000-05:00Thank you so much for sharing this "gem" as you ca...Thank you so much for sharing this "gem" as you call it. I find old stories like that very warming, and I may have to try and get a copy for myself.TurnipToeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06238424454502372001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-358433982003184582008-02-28T16:40:00.000-05:002008-02-28T16:40:00.000-05:00I adore Mary Frances. I spent a year looking for ...I adore Mary Frances. I spent a year looking for a copy of her first book, where she learns how to cook from the Kitchen People (first recipe? Toast!), and I now own a first edition. Cost me a pretty penny and entirely worth it.<BR/><BR/>I happen to have just finished rereading my facsimile of the knit and crochet book - I also own the sewing and the housekeeping ones in facsimile - and I love Aunt Maria. I think she's slipping hallucinogens into Mary Frances' morning tea and doing the real teaching.<BR/><BR/>(And, yes. Mary Maria is extremely annoying.)<BR/><BR/>Book had me picking up a crochet hook to make a petticoat for a doll I do not own. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-25259868728948668962008-02-28T14:13:00.000-05:002008-02-28T14:13:00.000-05:00LOL!Thank you for this hysterical book. I may hav...LOL!<BR/><BR/>Thank you for this hysterical book. I may have to buy it myself . . .<BR/><BR/>ScienceprincessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-68835210600536972052008-02-28T13:38:00.000-05:002008-02-28T13:38:00.000-05:00Soooo ... you're saying I SHOULD listen to the voi...Soooo ... you're saying I SHOULD listen to the voices and do what they say because it will lead to self improvement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-29468579244394420252008-02-28T13:36:00.000-05:002008-02-28T13:36:00.000-05:00Fabulous find, Franklin; I've got to get my hands ...Fabulous find, Franklin; I've got to get my hands on it: My Mom is Mary Frances and I suspect her mother was *not* raised right plus I have a group of knitting elementary students who might enjoy some of that business!<BR/><BR/>And what a coincidence! My best friend is also a Fairy!KHMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05370307704273976378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-11082301149776827922008-02-28T13:13:00.000-05:002008-02-28T13:13:00.000-05:00I love it when you talk about books. What a treasu...I love it when you talk about books. What a treasure you've found! I'd love to hear more about Aunt Maria also!<BR/><BR/>What a wonderful post. Thank you Franklin!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-51684274669743661742008-02-28T13:01:00.000-05:002008-02-28T13:01:00.000-05:00Thanks for enriching my mental library. I'd never...Thanks for enriching my mental library. I'd never heard of this series before. The shame of course is that i consider myself fairly well-read.<BR/><BR/>OT: Me love Euphemia Gladys! My imaginary child is named Helvetica Humbert.La Cabeza Grandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316752959658920142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-34590488781518267842008-02-28T11:26:00.000-05:002008-02-28T11:26:00.000-05:00Mary Frances, who at this point in her twelve year...<I>Mary Frances, who at this point in her twelve years on earth has already dealt with talking thimbles, brooms and garden implements is not remotely surprised and goes along with it.</I><BR/><BR/>Then the hormones hit and after she poisoned Aunt Maria with arsenic she ran off with a biker named Dutch Marie and knitted her a bike cozy.FiberQathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06524481267771726089noreply@blogger.com