Museum Matinees: Stitch In time! A Knitting Cabaret

Excitement! Drama! Romance! And... knitting? An award-winning hour of lost wartime knitting songs. Bring your knitting (or crochet) and stitch along to toe-tapping, needle-clicking tunes. Come out and have a "ball"!During the World Wars, millions of women knitted for the soldiers. Mere days after the first bullet was fired, dozens of knitting-themed songs began to appear. After the wars these songs were lost, but this cabaret concert, this music a clever, sweet and entertaining footnote in history has been preserved and given a chance to live again.'Amazing!' (Guardian).★★★★★ (GlamAdelaide.com.au).Presented as part of Field to Fashion at the Museum of MakingSuitable for families
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