Sitting here knitting 🧶 as I listen to the podcast I am totally fascinated by the history of knitting 🧶 and the war time knitters
@christinekrusky8110
Ай бұрын
I am also sitting here knitting, listening to your wonderful information on fellow knitter's during World War One. I send all my knitted items to the Salvation Army in my city for distribution and feel that I am helping out someone. I am so grateful that my Mother had patience to teach me to knit a sweater in my teens and have since been knitting my whole life. I call myself a knitaholic as I knit every day and it brings me a sense of accomplishment and peace.
@anngillebrand857
10 ай бұрын
I have a second ww housekeeping book with receipies for cooking with rationing ie.meatless,eggless, sugarless,etc.recycling used garments into other clothing..as fabric for civlians became less available...and from all services ...patterns of all needed knitwear. It defines by its content to what extent the home front was essential. Keep up the great work of looking at all those forgotten bits of history...esp. women s contributions..signed zsuzsika fom my friends place
@maryannraley
6 ай бұрын
Hate to be picky, but the Kitchener stitch is a way of closing the toe of a sock rather than the heel. It's a grafting technique that closes the toe without a seam. (I'm actually knitting a sock as I listen.) Very interesting subject, I'm fascinated by how much society has changed in the last 100 years.
@margarethastings3332
5 ай бұрын
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@sheilal3172
5 ай бұрын
Actually, there is a pattern wherein the heel is joined with Kitchener stitch. I was surprised too, and I plan, if I can locate the directions, to try the pattern. Best wishes.
@margarethastings3332
5 ай бұрын
@@sheilal3172 I’ve never heard of that and would be interested to know more. There are certainly many ways to turn a heel. However, from a historical point of view the Kitchener stitch was named after Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, who prompted the invention of the technique specifically to prevent chafing of the toes.
@maryannraley
5 ай бұрын
@@sheilal3172 Thanks, but I hate the Kitchener stitch so much I learned to knit toe up socks to avoid it. LOL Might be interesting, but don't put yourself out.
@LadyVTavora
2 ай бұрын
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@kellicoffman8440
8 ай бұрын
If you can knit 🧶 and purl an afghan you are a knitter the rest is just variations on the two stitches
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