Happy Independence Day!
Stinkymum is getting her patriot act on . . . check out her various red, white, and blue knit items. She just posts pictures - no patterns and, well . . . something to that scale would take more than a day or so to complete.
Sooooooo - if you’d like to wear a bit of the colors for the parade today maybe you might want to stick with this simple patriotic ribbon. Simple - easy to do - and quick, also. You could get started right now and have one finished in time to head to the local parade and festivities.
Okay, I use google a lot - haven’t tried the new bing search yet. But, I typed in patriotic knitting and one of the links was this one to a book titled Rendezvous with Death by Mark W. Van Wienen. The page that popped up, as you can see, talks about the folks who knitted socks and other such things for the men who went to war - WWI, I believe, since the date is 1918.
Anyway . . . reading down through this little section on knitting I came across the following:
In 1918 the New York Sun initiated a poetry contest with the express purpose of stimulating both this patriotic knitting and the composition of poems about it. From 12 May until 10 November the Sunday edition of the Sun published first, second, and third place winners and ten honorable mentions seleced by the editorial staff. The paragraph goes on to say that the poems were then published in 1919 as a book-length collection entitled Sock Songs.
The book is available - you can read more about it here. Juxtaposing the high literary art of well-known modernists with wartime verse by working men and women, soldiers, and pacifists, Rendezvous with Death collects an unprecedented range of American poetic responses to the Great War.
Fascinating. I never knew what a little dig through google would bring up.
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
well, the site is back up . . . unfortunately my password is NOT working and I cannot get in to update. Thanks to any and all who stop by here to see what’s up. Hopefully 451 will be back in the news soon.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
well . . . as you can see tptb have now deleted all authors’ names from their sites. The words written here were written by ME - Barbara Waters from Kenai Alaska - while I was paid minimally to write the words and so 451 press claims ownership to those words - they were written by me.
good luck steve shickles wherever you are.