Most of my readers probably don’t knit, but I came across this blog post and had to share!
knitting and history
[UPDATE: I posted even more patterns from this historic knitting book here in 2013!]
Today is Veterans Day and it is also the 1 year anniversary of when I started this blog. So this post will combine two things I love: history and knitting. With free historic knitting patterns, no less!
As I wrote about in my very first post, what we in the United States call Veterans Day is known to Europe, Canada and most of the world as Remembrance Day. This year we’ll observe the holiday on Monday, but the actual date is the eleventh because Nov. 11 1918 was Armistice day—the day that World War I ended. The United States lost maybe about 100,000 or so soldiers in the Great War. European countries lost millions.
The Great War, as it was then known, started in 1914, but the U.S. did not join until 1917. During the years the…
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Portraits of War 