As a knitter, I’m always glad to see knitters bravely go where no knitters have gone before. This is a new one to me, and certainly serves as a useful twist to a generally useful hobby.
UPDATE: Boy, when knitting hits the presses, it does so big-time. Michelle Malkin blogs about radical subversive knitting in New York. It sounds so grim, and so antithetical to what knitting is about, which is creation, relaxation and beauty. I bet that generations of American knitters are rolling in their graves right about now. Anyway, if you’re interested in American History, knitting or both, you may want to get your hands on No Idle Hands : The Social History of American Knitting
UPDATE II: I don’t know why comments haven’t been working on this post. I just pressed a few buttons in my edit screen, though, and might have fixed that problem.
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What Threading Water said.
Yup. Fixed. So here’s my comment with some additions.
I’m thrilled to learn that you are a knitter. All the best people are, doncha know! You should come to NY Sheep & Wool Festival next year.
I actually don’t disagree with everything about the Malkin-linked exhibit. Isn’t it fantastic, for example, that women quietly, subversively, moved human nature forward by means of an always-socially-acceptable domestic art? How marvelous that they/we found a way to get things done even when it was theoretically not allowed.
Glad you got this fixed, Bookworm. My comments concern only the original post. This is a very creative way to teach women needed skills. When I was in the hospital following the birth of my son, 32 years ago, a nurse brought a group of student nurses through the maternity ward. One of the young women gasped when she saw me. “She’s NURSING that baby,” she said. And I was. Nursing a baby is primary function of the female breast. [Note: I did not say the only function.
] I successfully nursed both of my sons. But I had no instruction, except a few old books with crude illustrations rather than pictures, as to how to nurse and none whatsoever as to how to express milk. Even with a breast pump that isn’t an easy task, if you have to just “figure it out.” Kind of uncomfortable. So I thought the knitted breasts were great. Not hard cold plastic, but soft and easy to manipulate like the CPR dummy. And the different skin tones. Well, that’s right up my alley. LOL [Note to the overly serious: These could be colored to match your bathroom curtains, and they would still work just the same. 
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