From the book “Deep South Knitting” and inspired by Atlanta, Georgia and now available for download. Pattern includes georgia travel info and recipe for Peach Cobbler.

A certain fictional Southern heroine was ahead of her time -- “reduce, reuse, recycle” never looked so good as when she used her green velvet drapes, gold trim and tassels to make a fancy dress. She needed something stunning to wear to convince a certain scalawag to give her money to save her plantation after those nasty carpetbaggers raised her taxes.

Perfect for cool summer evenings or as a modest cover for bare shoulders at a summer wedding, this lacy fichu was inspired by that most famous drapery dress. Knit in a classic feather and fan pattern, its linen fabric is much lighter than velvet drapes but equally fetching as a frame for your own pretty neck and shoulders. With a simple 4 row repeat and only one row of increases and decreases, why fiddle-dee-dee, it’s quite an easy lace knitting project, even if you’ve never knit lace before!