I still find it amusing how surprised many women are that I am not only capable of knitting but enjoy it and actively pursue it.
Well, I'm not surprised that that shy, aloof creature known as "He of One Stick and Two Balls" exists--but it is always a pleasant surprise to find another, a little more of a surprise than seeing a knitter in public in the first place.
The gender distribution seems to move closer to parity among younger knitters, or so the Yarn Harlot catalogues on her book tours.
The mathematical and technical I think definitely has an appeal, as well as the creative and crafty. There seem to be a fair few men around who knit lace! I figure the more men are visible with such things the less stigmatised it becomes for men to be seen engaged in such projects.
Well, sure!
And you'd think I'd see more of it here in San Francisco: can't you just imagine a flaming queen* on a bus, clicking his way with full forward momentum through a scarf in Shetland lace?
I will be embarking on baby knits soon as my sister and brother-in-law have impending offspring due in October.
Did I ever post about the great fun it is to knit the Baby Surprise Jacket (http://www.knitting-and.com/wiki/Baby_Surprise_Jacket)? "Look, gang, a moonbat amoeba!" *flip flop hey presto* "I mean baby jacket! The way the paired double decreases make nicely mitered corners is a wonder of engineering. Should you get this pattern through buying The Opinionated Knitter, which is a newsletter anthology, the very next pattern will give you a hood, booties, and blanket, all constructed similarly. As written, it wants about 129 m sportweight and a 3.5 mm needle, or as-needed to achieve 24 st/10 cm. Two hundredish-meter skeins will get you a whole ensemble with a bit left over.
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-- Lorrie
* - In case the idiom doesn't survive the trans-Pacific crossing: a flamboyant, homosexual man. The flaming queen does not, as a rule, transvest, unlike his near cousin, the drag queen. I work in San Francisco, We Get That a Lot.
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Re: slowly heading towards Spring here but still knitting
Date: 2007-08-09 05:13 pm (UTC)Well, I'm not surprised that that shy, aloof creature known as "He of One Stick and Two Balls" exists--but it is always a pleasant surprise to find another, a little more of a surprise than seeing a knitter in public in the first place.
The gender distribution seems to move closer to parity among younger knitters, or so the Yarn Harlot catalogues on her book tours.
The mathematical and technical I think definitely has an appeal, as well as the creative and crafty. There seem to be a fair few men around who knit lace! I figure the more men are visible with such things the less stigmatised it becomes for men to be seen engaged in such projects.
Well, sure!
And you'd think I'd see more of it here in San Francisco: can't you just imagine a flaming queen* on a bus, clicking his way with full forward momentum through a scarf in Shetland lace?
I will be embarking on baby knits soon as my sister and brother-in-law have impending offspring due in October.
Did I ever post about the great fun it is to knit the Baby Surprise Jacket (http://www.knitting-and.com/wiki/Baby_Surprise_Jacket)? "Look, gang, a moonbat amoeba!" *flip flop hey presto* "I mean baby jacket! The way the paired double decreases make nicely mitered corners is a wonder of engineering. Should you get this pattern through buying The Opinionated Knitter, which is a newsletter anthology, the very next pattern will give you a hood, booties, and blanket, all constructed similarly. As written, it wants about 129 m sportweight and a 3.5 mm needle, or as-needed to achieve 24 st/10 cm. Two hundredish-meter skeins will get you a whole ensemble with a bit left over.
(continued next comment)
-- Lorrie
* - In case the idiom doesn't survive the trans-Pacific crossing: a flamboyant, homosexual man. The flaming queen does not, as a rule, transvest, unlike his near cousin, the drag queen. I work in San Francisco, We Get That a Lot.