A Bluestocking Knits

I started reading Charlotte Fairlie this morning, for the D.E. Stevenson list's current discussion.  I knew for certain that I didn't own it, and ordered it a month or so ago from a bookseller in New Zealand, of all places ($10! $11 shipping! still a bargain, especially for a Stevenson first UK edition), and I had vague suspicions that I had actually never read it before, wh. were confirmed before I was five pages in.  It seems already a classic Stevenson — witty, generous, perceptive.

I am so pleased to have a "new" Stevenson that I thought I'd commemorate it with a "Knitting with D.E. Stevenson" category, along the lines of the apparently-defunct Knit the Classics.  This is only a virtual knitalong, mind — although sometimes it might be a real one — posting a knitting pattern or project that goes with the Stevenson book I'm reading at the moment.  Charlotte Fairlie was first published in 1954, and I know already, from the blurb and the kilted chappie on the dust-jacket, that the heroine travels to Scotland, so something like this —

It isn't "real" Fair Isle, obviously, but it has a Fifties flair to it, with its fitted silhouette and its vividness. This particular jumper is from Skiff Vintage Knitting Patterns' 1950s page.  It's sold out, but the pattern would I think be fairly simple to re-create.  I'm seeing it in Rowan tweeds, actually …