what we did yesterday

looking back at some of the reason's people used to knit...Why We Knit is an intersting take on why we used to knit "During the Civil War needles were picked up to heed the call of soldiers requesting socks. Later, the armies of World War II requested mass amounts of knitted mittens and cap-mufflers to be sent to them from overseas. In the sixties knitted wear was a leading fashion trend (202). And after a large decline in the eighties, knitting slowly popularized and has now, in the new century, become all the rage."