- Owner
- Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Museum
- Region
- Adelaide
- Creator
- Junior Knitting Club
- Measurements
- 312cm x 170cm
- Historical Period/Date
- 20th Century (1930-1969 Mid)/1941
- ID Number
- ESPO-002
- Classifications
- Cloths,Stem Stitch,
Physical Description
Yellow cotton cloth embroidered with a central cipher featuring the letters J, K and C for Junior Knitting Club. Dated 1941. Signatures are embroidered in brown.
Theme and Purpose
World War II. Fundraiser. Worked as a fundraiser with the funds raised to be used to buy wool for the club members to knit items for children in hospital. The girls who organised the bed cover are listed inside the cipher. The quilt was made by The Junior Knitting Club whose initials form the cipher. This club was formed by a group of 12/14 year-olds in 1939 to make toddlers' jumpers for Adelaide Children's Hospital as they were in need - everyone was knitting for the armed forces at that time. Members were issued with a hand-written certificate, a copy of which is held in the file. It reads: "Junior Knitting Club - In signing this card I Promise to work loyally for the children who need our help so much. I promise to pay all fines that the club think ought to be payed. I will make as many things as it is in my power to do and I will give 3d [three pence] in at every meeting I attend. Name .. Date .. Secretary's Signiture. Once this form is signed the person who applied for it is a qualified member and shall receive her badge." The 1941 Group were about 12-14 years old. A charge, probably one shilling, was made to add a name and the money raised was used to purchase knitting wool. The group continued until about 1943/4.
Signatures
Below are the names that have been transcribed from this object. Multiple instances of a name on one object is indicated by a bracketed number after the name. A name in bold appears on other objects. Click these names to see the other objects.
Alderman, Philomena
Annells, H G
Annells, Joyce
Annells, K F
Annells, M
Annells, R
Banks, Annie
Barrett, Natalie
Begg, Betty
Berndt, H M
Black, Nancy
Bond, Josephine
Bonython, Dick
Callanan, Mary
Chapman, Anne
Chapman, Fay
Chapman, Mary
Chartres, Joy
Churchill-Smith, Betty
Cooper, Helen
Cooper, Mac
Cox, Cynthia
Day, Alison C
Dolman, June
Fenn, Margaret
Fenwick, M
Gartrell, Daphne
Gartrell, Jean
Goode, David
Goode, Muriel
Grasby, Carleen
Grasby, Judith
Grubb, Joy
Grubb, R W
Harvey, Elizabeth
Hemingway, N
Hicks, Pamela
Hittman, Harold
Hittman, Zita
Holmes, F J
Hope, J
Jeanes, M R
Jeffreson, L A
Jeffreson, Pat
Jones, Brenda M
Keats, Mary
Kirkman, Joan P
Lathlean, Peter H D
Lewis, Joy
Lewis, Pauline
Lodge, Jeanette
Mallan, Margaret
Mallan, Patricia
McGee, J M
Mellor, Marie
Miller, B P
Mitchell, Pat
Murray, Anne
Newman, Douglas R
Pascoe, J
Perry, Vivienne
Prince, Fay
Pyne, E
Roberts, Bruce
Roberts, Bruce (Jnr)
Roberts, Jillien
Robertson, Betty Ann
Ryan, Kay
Ryan, M
Schulz, Barbara
Slee, Audrey
Sparrow, Nadine
Spinkston, Margaret
Stevenson, Mary
Stidston, Gaynor
Todd, Rosemary
Travers, Elizabeth
Travers, Gabriell
Travers, Leonore
Turner, Jane
Ward, Catherine
Welbourne, Eleanor
Willis, Jim
Worden, J
Wright, Doug