Most relief organizations sold at least badges. Major stores sponsored knitting bees for relief organizations of all types. Eleanor Roosevelt became the most visible proponent of wartime knitting, carried her large knitting bag almost everywhere, and was nick-named “knitter-in-chief”. The biggest of these organizations was Bundles for Britain, which was spurred by a plea from Clementine Churchill to Eleanor Roosevelt. became involved in WWII, numerous relief organizations for various nationalities sprung up, soliciting knitted goods for their fighting men, refugees, and wounded. Similar to what happened in WWI, before the U.S. Although knitters were still encouraged to conserve wool, this agreement prevented wool shortages from developing during WWII, like those that had occurred during WWI. would be permitted to use the clip, but would provide it back to England, if she needed it. to store the entire 1940 Australian wool clip, a critical war material. Britain had expressed concern that their wool reserves might be overrun by Germany and discretely asked the U.S. was still neutral, our government engaged in a carefully orchestrated war preparation done in a manner so as not to alarm homeland pacifists or future enemies. Although not propaganda, but important for the knitting campaign, during the early days of the war in Europe, while the U.S. Much was learned from the Great War’s knitting program including lessons about supply. Just 20 years after the conclusion of the Great War, relief groups reinstituted the lessons they learned in using propaganda to mobilize knitters.
In that article I described how WWI knitting propaganda successfully solicited support from people within our homeland to make and contribute knitted items needed for the war effort and for comfort of wounded and displaced people. Last June I contributed a blog on WWI knitting propaganda to the Center for Knit and Crochet.
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