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2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

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  • Sarahspangles
    Sarahspangles Posts: 3,239 Forumite
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    I’ve been listening to some knitting podcasts, a little nugget: knitting was popular in England and Germany in WW2 because it was possible to knit in blackout conditions. 

    Ooohhh…. Which knitting podcasts, please @Saraspangles?  I listen to several and am always on the look out for another.  (Cast On, Caithness Craft Collective, The Knitmore Girls, Cogknitive - all the others I used to listen to have gone silent.) 

    Glad to hear you got to knit on the plane.  You aren’t the first knitter to fall foul of a hank of yarn - I’ve seen photos of passengers using their knees to hold the hank open, while balling it up with their hands.  Thinking of which…. a useful skill to learn is how to wind a centre-pull ball with your hands.  I don’t remember where I saw how to do it but this video seems comprehensive.
    I think the podcasts will be your ‘gone silent’ ones. I started with an episode of Stuff you Missed in History Class then a few episodes of The Long Thread which is usually about spinning and weaving and now I’m listening to Knitter Views, which stopped when they ran out of people who’d designed for Vogue Knitting at some point.

    One of the podcasts is with Cornelia Hamilton who sounds like she wears her skein as a sarong! But she doesn’t knit in public….
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