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Knit-n-Crochet on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:09:00 PM
Knitting has been experiencing an up and down roller coaster ride with American women for over a century. Once factories began machine knitting everyday items like socks, knitting began to take a back seat as a needed, and started appealing to women as a craft or art—less a necessary way to keep warm and more a way to show off skill and creativity. Surprisingly, the “down” periods seem to coincide with times when women were experiencing more rights and newfound freedoms—the 1920s, 1940s, and...