A passion for literature and stitching comes alive in Joanna Johnson’s knitwear patterns inspired by beloved classic characters.
In the vein of “no idle hands,” children took up needles, knitting everything from simple projects to socks, to aid soldiers during the Civil War.
L. Frank Baum, as a clever spinner of stories, while writing a magical tale for children was also using Jinjur and her army as an allegory for the women’s suffrage movement, to which he was no stranger.
Buff knitting is a regional technique for knitting a shagged carpet-like fabric, specifically for work mittens.
