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Knitting for victory and stashbusting

The Victoria and Albert Museum has collated a series of knitting patterns from the 1940s, when knitting was at its peak of popularity and a serious part of the war effort. Women were encouraged to do their part for their country by raising their needles and knitting for the troops. The Second World War might seem like an unlikely

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