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| This doll is a double-offender--sewn and knitted! |
Good grief! Don’t tell anyone, but I just learned I’m
a crafting scofflaw! There are actually laws on the books in New Jersey that I
unknowingly violated for years. Me! Goody Two Shoes! Right now I’m quaking in
those shoes, terrified the law is going to catch up with me.
My crimes? Sewing dolls and their clothing and
knitting without record keeping. Stop laughing! This is serious!
N.J.S. 34:6-131 states, “The manufacturing, altering,
repairing or finishing in whole or in part of any dolls, dolls’ clothing in any
tenement house is hereby prohibited.”
I lived in an apartment in Newark for several years. I’m thinking that qualifies as a tenement of sorts. But even if it doesn’t and I’m off the hook for the dolls and doll clothing I made back then, I still have to contend with N.J.S. 34:6-130.1 According to that law, since 1940, anyone who knits at home in New Jersey “shall keep a daily record of work done, and all employers in said industry shall likewise keep and maintain a record of the daily work done…for a period of two years.”
I lived in an apartment in Newark for several years. I’m thinking that qualifies as a tenement of sorts. But even if it doesn’t and I’m off the hook for the dolls and doll clothing I made back then, I still have to contend with N.J.S. 34:6-130.1 According to that law, since 1940, anyone who knits at home in New Jersey “shall keep a daily record of work done, and all employers in said industry shall likewise keep and maintain a record of the daily work done…for a period of two years.”
I never kept any records of my knitting. Didn’t know I had to. I
wonder what the statute of limitations is for these two crimes. I’d do a bit of
research, but I’m afraid to call attention to myself. Maybe I need to go into
hiding.
