Knitting for Victory - Recreating a WWII Service Sweater
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2022
- #sewbiased #wwiiknitting #vintageknitting
In this video I recreate a vintage knit sweater vest from an original WWII pattern. All of the patterns are available from the @CanWarMus here: wartimecanada.ca/sites/defaul...
This is part of the #wwiisewingchallenge hosted by myself, @ThistlenStitches and @TheVintageGuidebook , challenging people to make a garment with the rationing restrictions of WWII. The whole playlist is available here: • The World War 2 Sewing...
Check out @ShannonMakes video where she makes the same sweater: • Knitting For Victory: ...
And her video on wartime knitting: • Spies, Socks, & Soldie...
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Sources for the clothing rationing restrictions:
Fashion on the Ration by Julie Summers: amzn.to/3yYI66c
CC41 Utility Clothing by Mike Brown: amzn.to/3CZZlGn
Main footage shot on a Sony HDR-CX455: amzn.to/3q1z1VT
Secondary footage with Canon EOS Rebel: amzn.to/3xZWLfO
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Theme music composed by Cameron Killick
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I am sure you probably know this but if you go on the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is in south Kensington London, they have a number of free knittin patterns.
6:05 An actual Second World War service member would be familiar with the phrase "beggars can't be choosers".
I believe some WW2 Imperial typewriters (among other things) had "war finish" stamped on them, presumably to assure buyers that this was not their usual standard of finish.
Ok, that totally tracks. Because yeah, so many things that are made for the military they give zero fucks about how they look, and there's not much you can do about it as a rank and file soldier.
I love how this looks on you. Heck, I love the look of the pattern. I want to make it, however I LOATHE knitting cables. For this top, though, I may just have to get past my loathing and get knitting (once I've finished the 6 or so things I've got on the needles that is!).
I will admit these were the easiest cables I've ever done, because it's just a 1x1 cable, which means you don't need an extra needle, and they can be done mostly in knit twists, which is so much easier!
Love when a plan comes together like that! And whilst circular needles were not period accurate metal ones certainly were! I learnt on my grandma's metal ones and these days use vintage metal ones. I think the largest needle I've worked with is a uk 10! However I only work with vintage patterns - love the artwork- and yes, Shannon's video on the history was fantastic. I loved the snippet about continental vs British method!
I had no idea metal needles were that old! I love them because they're so much more slippery, it makes everything go faster.
@@SewBiased me too!
I knitted this one!!!
Well done! Cables drive me crazy but yours look great!
Thanks so much, I can assure you the first few looked just terrible, but I eventually got the hang of it with some help from a few lovely costubers
Love the cable pattern, I am doing a cabled cardigan that is now just about imprinted in my brain, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure, would love to see yours when it's finished
well done! knitting is one of my love languages and cabling is both relaxing and time consuming 🧶
I don't find cabling as relaxing as the knitting itself, I lost too many stitches!
@@SewBiased oh dear, losing stitches is not a love language!
I’m SO impressed with this, so much work and the sweater is darling.
It turned out awesome!
Thanks so much! It's been a while since I knitted, so I was worries it might be a mess.
This looks so professional! Great job!
Oh wow, you're far too kind!
It looks beautiful!
Awww, thank you so much!
Wow that’s lovely!
Awww shucks, that you so much!
Oh I love your video I love to see a knitting pattern for Tights.
It's a great looking sweater.
Thank you so much!
That turned out so great!!! Do you love it !?
Toque IS the correct name 😅😅❤❤
This was so cool! My mom is a knitter, though I...am not. I've tried, and i just can't get it to not feel extremely awkward. But this way I get to enjoy it vicariously through you!
Also, frogging might just be one of the most satisfying things ever. 10/10
Omg, the frogging, so satisfying
This sweater looks so freaking good on you! ✨
Hmmm not sure if it’s just me but seem to be missing audio around the 6 minute mark
That's weird, I went back and listened to it, and I definitely have audio there.
Do you know the yarn weight that you used? I am trying to make sure that I have enough yarn for this and if not that I do get ahold of some that will work for this project.
How can I get the book? I want to make this😁❤️
The creator she tagged posted the link to the entire book under her video.
Little story from the US Civil War: In the early days, a volunteer field nurse named Mary Bickerdyke was appointed by the US sanitary commission to be the matron of a field hospital. She employed many formerly enslaved people who had escaped to union lines, along with many indigenous americans to run it. She proved to be so effective and so popular that she eventually worked her way up to overseeing 300 hospitals by the time the war ended. She also pioneered new standards and techniques of sanitation that saved countless lives across the entire union force And because she didn't take sh*t from anybody, she had a tendency of getting in trouble with officers for shirking the chain of command. At one point, complaints about her reached all the way up to General f*cking Sherman and he simply replied "she ranks me" .
Every war is a woman's war.
Yes! ALL OF THIS!
Also Harriet Tubman worked as a scout for the Union, working behind enemy lines and leading troops.
The term "sewist" it etymologically incorrect. The term you want to use is "sew-er".
You aren't a plumbist, you are a plumber...you aren't a carpentist, you are a carpenter...you aren't a knittist, you are a knitter. Same etymological rule applies to sewist/sewer. Plus, the word sewer has been in use in the English language since circa 1300AD.
Have a nice day!
Yes, but when conversing in a text medium, sewer looks like "place where sewage is" as opposed to "person who sews. So sewist is frequently used to avoid confusion.
@@SewBiased I find it difficult to believe that in 800 years, we have forgotten the importance of context in written sentence structure. There are MANY words in English that are spelled the same yet pronounced differently...or that are spelled the same and have different connotations.
@@joannathesinger770 to quote Winston Churchill "this is the kind of errant pedantry up with which I shall not put."
@@SewBiased ROFLMAO!!! Suit yourself, but Churchill KNEW the importance of etymology, so it's highly humorous you chose him as an example of what you refuse to do. Toodles.
@@joannathesinger770 and as any linguistics professor will tell you, English is fluid and ever changing, and if a word is intelligible, it is a word. Bye.