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No Idle Hands

by Anne L. Macdonald
Kymberly Dakin
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Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.

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Publisher: Knitting Out Loud Edition: Abridged

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  • File size: 137361 KB
  • Release date: May 16, 2008
  • Duration: 04:46:10

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  • File size: 137380 KB
  • Release date: May 16, 2008
  • Duration: 04:46:08
  • Number of parts: 4

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Crafts History Nonfiction

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English

Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.

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Crafts History Nonfiction