No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
by Anne Macdonald
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Author: Anne MacdonaldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-04-07
ISBN: 0345362535
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
I highly recommend this book on cd for any "knit-a-holic." What a great listen-to while you knit! The reader gives each voice a distinct inflection and is a joy to listen to. I read the book in the eighties and my only quibble with the cd version is that it is heavily edited. Even so, it is a great "read" and leaves me with a sense of being connected with a long line of knitting sisters.
Summary of No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
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. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.General Books
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