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.
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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.
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This book is just as it says, a social history of American knitting. The pieces on the necessity of knitting during the Civil War and the World Wars are particularly insightful. Although I wish the author I done a better job of footnoting her quotes. The sources are given in the back of the book but it would have been helpful to have some point of reference in the text.
CableCarBelle
Dec 24, 2009
Just OK
This book is only moderately interesting. The author obviously did her research, but the problem is in her presentation. She appears to have taken her findings, put them in chronological order, and then simply strings them together without much creativity.
