Hand knits for men and women in service - that's the promise that my WWII Knitting booklet promised, and that's what it delivered! I set out to make a reproduction of a Canadian V-necked vest (for people serving in the Women's Military Service Corps), and along the way I learned a ton about the fascinating history of the civilian Homefront effort and wartime knitting.
This is only a drop in the water of the amazing history I learned - if you want even more information, I'll be releasing another video with amazing photos, propaganda images, videos and speeches next week, so be sure to subscribe and check back in for that!
And if you are looking for my "Behind the Seams" video, that should be out shortly as well - leave me a question if you have one, and I'll do my best to answer it in the video!
----- This is a video about making a servicewoman's knit vest from a Canadian Red Cross knitting booklet. It touches a bit on historical knitting, specifically about wartime knitting in World War Two with some amazing audio clips from the war years, 1939-1945 both from soldiers on the frontlines as well as civilians on the home front who talk about knitting for the war, and knitting for victory.
If you like this video, then you should definitely check out my other video, the history of wartime knitting, in which I go even farther in depth about the history of knitting for soldiers and knitting for the war effort going back as far as the American Civil War, and talking about the role the Red Cross played in later, more organized efforts to get civilians to contribute to the war effort by knitting - mainly through a massive propaganda effort - as well as talk about who exactly was knitting (hint: it was everyone, regardless if you only see middle-aged white women in the history books), how knitting was potentially involved in espionage of the time, and much more!
