History Main / KnittingPregnancyAnnouncement

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* [[http://madcoversite.com/mad192.html Cover of issue #192]] of ''{{Magazine/Mad}}'' magazine, parody of ''Film/KingKong1976''.
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* Parodied in a later ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' episode, may actually have been a reunion show. Ralph thinks Alice is pregnant when he finds her knitting materials. However, rather than a sock, she's apparently knitted a baby's sweater -- complete with one hole for the head and two for the arms. The holes are unrealistically tiny, but then again, a baby is small. What Alice was really knitting was [[spoiler: a cover for Ralph's bowling ball]].

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* [[http://madcoversite.com/mad192.html Cover of issue #192]] of ''{{Magazine/Mad}}'' magazine, parody of ''Film/KingKong1976''.

* In ''ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily'', [[https://i.imgur.com/to55Crk.png the wife revealed she's pregnant by knitting a four-legged onesie]] before its occurrence in [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the movie]].

** In a BittersweetEnding, she picks it up again on the last page, as Amandine and her fiancé choose to get married maybe try again.

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* Smurfette does this in two alternate timelines in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story series with her two alternate timeline husbands (Hefty and Papa Smurf), only instead of it being used to announce a pregnancy, she does this to signal a yearning for a child from her husband in that timeline, after the husband originally assumes that Smurfette is knitting something for Baby Smurf. Both husbands respond by just picking her up from the chair and taking her off to be alone with her.
* Smurfette does this with her husband Hero in the ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'' story "A True Miracle" when she was yearning for a child to have with him in her old age.

[[folder: Film ]]

* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily''. Gomez realizes in the last scene that Morticia's pregnant again when he sees her knitting a baby's jumper. With three legs.
* In 1937's ''Film/ShallWeDance,'' the Creator/GingerRogers character is assumed to be pregnant because she's seen knitting. She's actually repairing a ''dog sweater.''

* ''Film/BeingTwoIsntEasy'': Subverted. One of the conflicts between the parents has been about whether or not to have another baby, with Chiyo wanting one and Goro not. Near the end when Chiyo brings it up again, Goro says he's OK with it—then he notices her knitting something. He excitedly asks her if she's going to have another baby. She says of course not, she's knitting something for little Taro.
* The 1935 adaptation of ''Film/{{David Copperfield|1935}}'' makes it clear that Clara Copperfield is pregnant by showing her embroidering a pillow wit the words "Bless The Baby".

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* In Creator/RaymondEFeist's and Creator/JannyWurts' ''Daughter of the Empire'' (part of Literature/TheRiftwarCycle), Mara of the Acoma knits while pregnant in order to appease her abusive husband. She is terrible at it and has no expectation of ever knitting anything useful. Her husband just expects that is what she should be doing.

* Creator/StephenKing does this in a few stories. In "The Boogeyman," from Literature/NightShift, after [[spoiler: Lester's first two children die and he tries to prevent her from having more]] the main character's wife starts "knitting little things," and that's how he knows. In Literature/BagOfBones, the protagonist goes through his wife's things and finds a mystery; her knitting is something he dismisses, as she has only been able to make afghan squares. In "Home Delivery," from Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes , the main character does this as a means to pass the time while pregnant. It becomes a ChekhovsGun [[spoiler: when her zombie husband returns.]].
* Literature/TheHandmaidsTale : Subverted and played with. Serena spends hours knitting scarves with human figures in a motif along the bottom, and Offred comments that these are the only children Serena is making these days. She also hypothesizes that the scarves get sent out, unraveled back into yarn, and re-knitted.
* Joey Maynard does this in ''[[Literature/ChaletSchool Mary-Lou of the Chalet School]]'', in order to explain to Mary-Lou why she can't deal with Jessica Wayne herself. She shows Mary-Lou some baby clothes she's been knitting.
* PlayedWith in ''The Laughter of Dead Kings'', the final Literature/VickyBliss novel. John reacts with alarm when he sees Vicky knitting baby clothes at the beginning of the book. {{Subverted}} when she angrily retorts that they're for her newborn nephew. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted (sort of) at the end, when John claims that he's deduced the action represented Vicky's desire to have a baby of their own, and has decided he's on board with it. Vicky denies this is the case, though she may or may not be being truthful.]]

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* Parodied in a later ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' episode, may actually have been a reunion show. Ralph thinks Alice is pregnant when he finds her knitting materials. However, rather than a sock, she's apparently knitted a baby's sweater -- complete with one hole for the head and two for the arms. The holes are unrealistically tiny, but then again, a baby is small. What Alice was really knitting was [[spoiler: a cover for Ralph's bowling ball]].

* Obliquely referenced on ''The Late Show with Creator/DavidLetterman''
-->UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton is about to become a grandmother. She's busy knitting tiny pants suits.
* At the start of the third series of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', [[spoiler: Shelagh]] is shown sewing a baby's nightdress. [[spoiler: Subverted in that she isn't pregnant yet, and later finds out she ''can't'' get pregnant because of complications from TB. There's also a DoubleSubversion in that she and Dr Turner adopt a baby girl in the third season finale, and Sister Julienne returns the nightdress to the Turners.]]

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* The Creator/ChuckJones cartoon "I Was a Teenaged Thumb," a comical take on ''Literature/TomThumb'', has the mother knitting microscopic booties. At the end, her husband is aghast when she starts knitting a giant bootie.
* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp''. Lady tells Jock and Trusty that her female owner, "Darling," is knitting booties. Jock and Trusty realize that Darling and her husband, Jim, must be expecting a baby (specifically their first child) and the two older dogs try explaining what a baby is to Lady.
* This happened to WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck once. In the cartoon, Daffy finds his wife knitting a sweater. Assuming it's for him, he takes it and tries putting it on. Suffice to say, the sweater's too small for him and he can hardly breath through the tight garment upon putting it on.
* The WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon "Fathers Are People" ends with Goofy saying that, despite all the hardships of having a kid, he wished he had a million of them. Then his wife shows him a tiny sweater and Goofy gasps in horror...then sighs with relief when she puts it on the dog.
* One of WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn's suitors decides she wants to have a baby and starts knitting, much to the annoyance of the other hens. IIRC, she found the egg, rather than laying it.
* An alligator female in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' knitted underwater, and was very clearly pregnant.
* Invoked by Bender from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when he was "pregnant" with beer. He was knitting beer bottle cozies.

* The Creator/TexAvery cartoon "WesternAnimation/LittleJohnnyJet" has an airplane find out his wife is expecting when he catches her knitting a little plane-shaped sweater. At the end she has a long line of them after the government orders ten thousand more.
* In another Tex Avery cartoon, "The Flea Circus", Francois comes home to find his wife Fifi knitting a flea-sized sweater with human-sized knitting needles (they also have a human-sized home and Fifi delivers in a human hospital). In the final scene, Francois enters Fifi's dressing room and is shocked to see her knitting away again.

* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Chaser", a man gives a love potion to the gal he is truly-madly for, but within months grows tired of her cloying devotion. He plans to kill her with a "glove cleaner" sold to him by the same mysterious old man who gave him the love potion. However, he drops the poisoned drink in shock when she presents him with a tiny knitted bootie.

# Since store-bought clothing wasn't as readily available as it was today (and could also be rather expensive), most clothing was made and mended by hand--and hand-me-downs were commonplace.