 |
   |
The
Indefensible Position: Men Should Knit
Esquire, November 2005
(To
see pictures submitted with the article,
click on the IMAGES button below)
Let’s face facts. In our society, knitting is considered a womanly pursuit. Growing up in the 1970’s, I had to beg and plead with my grandmother to teach me to knit – something she did only after closing the curtains in the evening and in the absence of my grandfather. “Knitting isn’t really for little boys,” she said. As if sugar, spice and everything nice were forever barred to me because of my gender. For years, I knitted on borrowed needles, in darkened rooms, and behind closed doors, gracefully accepting compliments about the “lovely pullover your grandmother made for you.”
(To read more, click on the TEXT button below.)
Click HERE
to read the original Guerrilla
Knitting for Men
Apparently, there are men who knit all over the world. Click here to read Men Should Knit in Catalan.
A whole community of
Men Who Knit - Check
it out!
Recommended knitting books - just click on the book covers:
Free
yourself from the drudgery of patterns and knit
what you want!
This
is another excellent guidebook for knitters who want to be liberated.
There
is nothing like a pair of handknit wool socks in winter.
Recommended Woolen Mills:
Harrisville
Designs, Harrisville, New Hampshire
Briggs
& Little Woolen Mills, New Brunswick, Canada
|
|
©
2006-2008 Charles Capaldi |
