{"id":1461,"date":"2010-10-26T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:01:27","slug":"blog-post-about-our-knitting-101-webisode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/blog-post-about-our-knitting-101-webisode\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post About Our “Knitting 101” Webisode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s November, 1941.<\/p>\n

The newest issue of Life magazine is on the newsstands. On the cover is a woman knitting; the caption reads \u201cHow to Knit.\u201d Now, this wasn’t your ordinary housewife-tutorial…something you’d pick up to do in your spare time…maybe something to try. In this issue, there was a simple pattern for a vest. There were simple instructions. There was an agenda. The objective?\u00a0 Knit a million sweaters for soldiers by Christmas. Christmas, 1941. No kidding.<\/p>\n

A movement was born. Sweaters, socks, mufflers, mittens\u2014all were being knitted for soldiers abroad. And, until Pearl Harbor, many of these American-made warmers were bound for Britain in the \u201cBundles for Britain\u201d campaign to assist displaced Londoners. Other committees soon formed to send the same handmade knitwear to other countries: Finland, Poland, Belgium.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnit for Victory\u201d it was called (once America was fully engaged, knitting for American soldiers took precedence). Many knitters who’d picked up their needles to knit for World War I soldiers, immediately did so during WWII and the American Red Cross played the part of organizing this massive movement. If you worked in a factory, like many women did, it was a way to use your down time. If you had a loved one overseas, like many women did, it was a way to connect…to contribute…to actively participate on the Home Front. Besides, they say, the hand-knit socks lasted longer than the machined ones and knitting kept your mind occupied!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"So, you see, knitting, most definitely, has a special place in our history. Whether you knit for fun or for\u00a0 \u201ca purpose,\u201d it’s a skill well worth pursuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s November, 1941. The newest issue of Life magazine is on the newsstands. On the cover is a woman knitting; the caption reads \u201cHow to Knit.\u201d Now, this wasn’t your ordinary housewife-tutorial…something you’d pick up to do in your spare time…maybe something to try. In this issue, there was a simple pattern for a vest. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18,19,121,124,122,24,123],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-knitting","tag-knitting-needles","tag-knitting-techniques","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}