Knitting for victory? Knitting a 1940s vintage sweater vest and Belgian war effort knitting
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2023
- Hello friends! On my video on the scrappy batt sock weight yarn (this one: • Spinning Sock Yarn out... ) you all voted en masse for more historic knitting project. You ask, I deliver!
In today's video we will do a little deep dive into a 1940s wartime knitting project, a sleeveless pullover for the girl in the services. The Bestway 1379 leaflet, to be exact. I will also give you a brief history of wartime knitting in my home country, Belgium. I àm a historian, but my field of expertise is actually the Middle Ages, so if anyone is more knowledgable about wartime Belgium and you notice a mistake, you may correct me if you do so respectably.
I was inspired by @ShannonMakes video on wartime knitting, which you can see here: • Spies, Socks, & Soldie...
My handspun sockyarn proved to be a perfect fit for this vintage sweater vest, and I had a great time knitting it. This will become very much a staple piece in my wardrobe as 1940s and 1950s fashion were what got me into historybounding and historic knitting in the first place.
If you enjoy spinning, yarn, knitting, fiber arts or any other traditional craft and fiber shenanigans then this channel is right up your alley. Maybe you could hit that subscribe button?
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“Vintage fashion but not vintage values”. Perfect!❤️
Yes ❤️
My paternal grandmother was German. My paternal grandfather was Belgian. My maternal grandparents were Dutch: grandfather in the Dutch army and grandmother involved in the Resistance. This means my family has a unique perspective on WW2.
All the women in the family had one thing in common: recycling every scrap of fabric or yarn. They passed on their knowledge and my childhood memories are peppered with my mother sewing, embroidering and knitting. The embroidery was mostly to hide stains or tears, or to disguise the fact that a hem had been taken out.
When I became a mother myself I continued on that road. For one, because it connected me to the women in my family who taught me how to do it. Next, because it made it possible for me to give my daughter clothes exactly how she wanted without breaking the bank. Last but not least, because it never ceases to surprise me how unpractical a lot of commercially available clothes are. There is always something that needs altering. Pocket are too small (or worse: NO POCKETS!). Waists are too wide. Hip circumferences are too narrow. Things are too long or too short.
Knitting is my favourite. And since last year, spinning only adds to it. Yay!
I absolutely love vintage patterns. They have an elegance and lot of modern patterns simply don’t have.
What an interesting family history! My great grandfathers' farm had a very strategic position, so my grandfather still has vivid memories of the German officers that were stationed in their home, as well as the american soldiers just walking through the fields, eating tomatoes as apples, after the war. I think it's important to keep telling the stories of the common people, for they're Often forgotten by history or worse - they become ''collateral damage''
It turned out beautifully! I’m bingeing your channel today! ❤😂❤
I'm certainly not stopping you 😁
I love your dry whit and humor! 🌸💗🌸
Thank you 🥰
Thanks for sharing the history too.
Thank you 🥰
@@MijnWolden you're welcome.
I think you are brilliant. It was interesting to hear history from a non english perspective. I love the top and want to make it too! ❤😊
Thank you ☺️
Honestly I'm very grateful for a European voice on that era. The vibe from british and especially american sources is... Very different lol.
Also hey, sensory overload is terrible, I absolutely understand T.T I hope you feel better now.
Anyway the sweater vest came out really cute. The patchy greys and browns might not be an accurate reproduction of the ~original~ yarn, but instead they FEEL vintage, in the same way that sepia does lol. It's old timey and whimsical and cozy. A great fit!
(Also, yes, make YOURSELF all the things >:) )
It is different yes 😅 and oh I love the old timey description of the yarn 🥰
I love how you combine textile history into your project videos. Especially Belgium textile history. Very interesting! ❤ And beautiful sweater vest. The color chaos and texture go so well together. Well done!
Thank you ☺️
The sweater vest is great ☆
Thank you 😁
You are so awesome. The way you can figure out a pattern using your homespun. FABULOUS. TALENT TRUE TALENT. And you're so young!! I think you have found your calling! AND your theatrical talents are ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS DARLING!
Awww thanks 🥰🥰🥰 this is the sweetest!
Thank you!
And thank you 🥰
I love the vest! And your history lesson.
Thank you 🥰
I love your channel. I hope to own sheep one day.
My dream is a farm in the french mountainside with some sheep as well 🥰🥰
Yeah sabaton 😁 I love the vest! 💕
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Nice sweater and well explained 😊
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This turned out really lovely! I also love the fact that it has more color than one might expect!
Thank you 🥰 and indeed yarn looks so different knitted than in a skein
You did awesome on the history part. I dont know if you were accurate but I love you included it. The vest turned out so pretty.
Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
That is a great vest! Love to see handspun actually used for something :)
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Totally enjoyed the history and the project. harpingJanet
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As a very thrifty person, I find myself very much in sympathy with the 1940s tips both knitting and sewing. I love the making of a scrap yarn and seeing the finished object.
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I love the vest and the history, Jente. No Dutch from me today because I already feel I've done my extra lesson by translating the newspaper articles. If blind members of the Zusters van Liefde can spend their time knitting then the rest of Belgian womanhood can too!
That indeed was a remarkable newspaper article!
@@MijnWolden Truly a remarkable article, I wasn't quite sure what was meant by 'dier pakje'... did they package animals to send to the Front or did they send care parcels to animals that were at the Front?
@@jirup no, that's an old grammatical form of saying "their", it's no longer used in modern Dutch :D
I love this project!! It's like the yarn was made for it.
I never knew about how long Belgium was in WW2. My boyfriend just told me the Netherlands capitulated after 5 days. So thanks for including the history stuff too.
Luxembourg only lasted a couple of hours, France three weeks. It was a blitzkrieg for sure over here 😅
@@MijnWolden I didn't study history after age 14 or something, but I definitely don't remember learning any of that.
Ah yes, you can kind of choose your high school curriculum, right? My cousin told me about it. History is mandatory up to 18 here. But then I went above and beyond with it 😅
@@MijnWolden Yes in the uk when I was at school, we still had to do sciences, English and maths after 14, but got to choose other subjects like languages, humanities, technology or arts. It may be different now, in some schools at least.
The stupid thing is, I like history and my 13 year old logic was based on not liking the history teacher. 🤷♀️ I didn't do textiles or whatever that was called either.
Teenagers do as teenagers do 😅
Thank you so very much for sharing another great project of yours. Perfect combination of history, theory and practical.
Thank you 🥰🥰🥰
You look very dapper!
Thank you 🥰
Also, I was confused you weren't first today 😉
@@MijnWolden I know 🙈 I missed the notification. I was busy and didn't notice. Hope I have better luck next time 😁
it would like to comment, but I don't know what to write... thanks for the research (it was the interesting part for me) and I can't really say it, but I think that you have done a great job with the pullover 👍
Thank you ☺️
I bet one of those great ideas you have saved up is for your husband! And you look good in the 40s!
Euh.... Sure? 😅
I am myself in the middle of a scrappy thrifty project. I got a deal on bundle of all the same yarn, but different colours
I tried to fade them in, blend them in, looked alright.
But then I wet the whole thing to block it for a fitting (I want to check the lenghts before adding the bands) and now all I can see is the seperation between the different colours, and not in a good way ahahaha.
Well, we'll see if it gets better once it's dried ^^"
Fingers crossed!
Love the texture of your yarn in the knitted fabric. And the colors!!
Thank you 🥰
Love your top yes redo the bands as you said it only a few rows and you will be happier wearing it,I know I know once it is finished you really want to move on to something else we all do but re do if not this year maybe next year you could cut the excess banding off and machine stitch the edge so it won’t unravel and cover the good edge over the machine stitched edge and it won’t show that is the quickest way,like it anyway
I did redo them, and you're correct 😁
😍 Sabaton! Love how they dive in to history/ musea/ archives to make the songs!
The more i watch your channel the more i love your content! Well done for this video.
After not watching UA-cam for two months i clicked you video. Lovely vest!!! Have fun creating more thingys! 😉☺️ Cheers from the Netherlands
Thank you 🥰🥰🥰 finally someone picking up on the sabaton 😁
Hooray from history nerd and graduate. Perhaps history will become the new cool thing You have reached the pinnacle spinning knitting and history it doesn't get better than this. Great garment as well. Sending good vibes and thoughts Katy from NZ 😊
Isn't history already the coolest thing then? 🤔
I loved the history lesson. Beautiful colors and pattern. I can't knit, but I'll like to try crocheting something similar with front post stitches or even puff stitches. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills.
Surely there must be similar vintage crochet patterns around!
So interesting! Thank you for describing the history.
Thank you 🥰
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️
Thankyou for sharing this video podcast.
I always enjoy the History aspect to what you're going to make. There are so many aspects of the 1930's and 40's, that we don't know about, I really appreciate you putting these things out into the Knitting sphere.
I love your Sweater Vest the yarn looks amazing knit up.( not that it didn't before).
It looks fabulous on.🧥
Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰❣️
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕
Thank you, Jen, hope you are doing great 🥰
@@MijnWolden Hi Jente, You're very welcome. ❣️❣️
Thankyou so much for the Heart ♥
Sending Heart ♥ back to you
I'm good, thanks for asking.
I can't wait to see what you're going to be doing next time.
I appreciate all the hard work that goes into putting a video podcast together for everyone.
Thankyou so much for sharing them with us all. 📷
Happy Spinning and Knitting Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰❣️
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🐕
Another wonderful video and project! You’ve inspired me to knit myself a sweater. 😊
Yes! Join the sweater knit side 😁
Great topic! What is your source for vintage patterns? I’m looking for men’s cabled vest patterns. Thanks for all you do!
I like browsing freevintageknitting dot com and vintageknittingpatternarchive dot com (as UA-cam regularly blocks comments with links in them). For antique patterns archive dot org is my friend.
@@MijnWolden Thank you! I’ll give it a go!
Good luck!
I really liked the history lesson! I'm very interested in wartime fashion but most accessible sources you can find are British or American, and I feel like things must be a ~bit~ different in an occupied country... And my history skills are not great so I never know where to start when researching this stuff for myself.
Anyway, I think the vest turned out great (do you call it a spencer as well in Flemish?), I love the yellow accents in the overall greyish wool!
The most common Flemish way to call this garment is a "debardeur" (and in true Flemish style mostly a "debardeurreke"). And yes, most of the sources were from US or UK, and when I was searching in Dutch, The Netherlands were dominating. Finding Belgium in there was hard...
@@MijnWolden Interesting, I'd never heard that word before!
I loved the history at the beginning! I love history but 18th century is my favourite time period ... and also medieval. The vest is great but really I didnt like the armhole and neckline "thingys" I love the yarn and the colours! :)
Middle Ages is history-wise my favorite too! I act like An insufferable know it all about it on my husband's channel The History Hikers 😁
Fun fact: Belgium was featured fairly heavily in Canadian propaganda during WWI (the heavily French and heavily German provinces had very low enlistment rates so the Government tried to convince people that fighting for fellow Catholics was the Catholic thing to do).
We're always the propaganda country. WWI was all about ''brave little Belgium'' in the UK 😁