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Life During Wartime

Knitting women… chuckled when they heard that FBI agents, ever on the lookout for agents of unfriendly powers with subversive pamphlets, apprehended a woman passenger on an incoming liner whose papers included such scribbled notations as “K2, p4, k6,” and demanded a translation of the code to which the vast State Department Library had no key.

No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
Chapter 14 — The Forties: Knitting in War and Peace
Anne L. Macdonald

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One Response to “Life During Wartime”

  1. Terri Says:
    October 12th, 2009 at 4:21 am

    Subversive knitting? Maybe knitters out to take over the world? We are, after all, armed with pointy sticks.

    I love it! This book is definitely going on my “to read” list!