Male Knitters and Crocheters

[Shandeh]

Over the past 8 years, I have met some amazing male knitters and crocheters.

How many male yarn-crafters are participating in the Bernat Forum?

[tjwjlove]

( pawpawtrys2 ) I'm new to the world of knitting. I have watched my wife, tjwjlove crochet for 30 years, always wondering if I could do something. She had her supplies out and I saw the Knifty Knitter. She told me that it was easy and showed me how to start a scarf. Once I started it. I WAS HOOKED. Now I want to try knitting with the needles. I have enjoyed following the Cal with my wife and maybe next year I can join the Kal.

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My very 1st project.

[Shandeh]

( pawpawtrys2 ) I'm new to the world of knitting. I have watched my wife, tjwjlove crochet for 30 years, always wondering if I could do something. She had her supplies out and I saw the Knifty Knitter. She told me that it was easy and showed me how to start a scarf. Once I started it. I WAS HOOKED. Now I want to try knitting with the needles. I have enjoyed following the Cal with my wife and maybe next year I can join the Kal. My very 1st project.

Congratulations, pawpawtrys2!
Now, you just need to join the forum in your own name, so you can participate in our Knit-Alongs!
We are doing a Beginner KAL right now, making a simple dishcloth.
Learn to Knit

[karenarp]

My one brother picked up crochet and was pretty darn good at it too, then my sister told him that was a girly craft and called him gay and his confidence fell so low he gave it up and never tried again. He had made about 6 afghans and a few dishcloths and towels and other projects by then too. He had a natural talent and hateful words destroyed his passion for it.

My husband can crochet and he prefers using a large double ended hook he made himself from a 1", 1.5" and some other size round dowels to make afghans that are a different colour on each side. They are so cool looking! I cannot figure out how he does it either! He says his parents taught him it to when he was a child, but they cannot remember ever doing it themselves. I have never even seen anything online about it either!

[linda2012]

Karenarp,
If you google "double-ended crochet hooks" there are several links to some Tunesian crochet techniques that sound like what your husband does. How neat that he does this! And how sad for your brother that something that he enjoyed was, in effect, taken away from him. Wonder if he knows that knitting was actually "men's work" once upon a time when fishermen used it to construct their nets and mend them? I'm sure they must have had a big crochet-like hook in their box of mending tools as well!

[karenarp]

Karenarp,
If you google "double-ended crochet hooks" there are several links to some Tunesian crochet techniques that sound like what your husband does. How neat that he does this! And how sad for your brother that something that he enjoyed was, in effect, taken away from him. Wonder if he knows that knitting was actually "men's work" once upon a time when fishermen used it to construct their nets and mend them? I'm sure they must have had a big crochet-like hook in their box of mending tools as well!

I am certain he isn't doing Tunesian, unless there is a secret hidden stitch that no one talks about? every time I try and do patterns from my official Tunesian book they do not come out anything like what he can do. Though in principle I do believe it could be a form of it. Then again, I get bored looking for the comparisons so I don't get very far looking. He has given away all his blankets so I cannot even take a photo of them.

I am so saddened that my brother will not pick up a hook any more also. He seemed to have the same innate talent my mother had. She could pick up a steel hook and some thread and create a gorgeous doily out of her head within a few hours. Something that would take others days and days to do. I once asked her to make me a few black doilies, gave her the thread and the unique designs she came up with was perfect. My brother had that, he looked at a photo and then made it, no instructions whatsoever. He even made a double the size (for queen bed) octagon blanket during this time.

[Shandeh]

I am so saddened that my brother will not pick up a hook any more also. He seemed to have the same innate talent my mother had. She could pick up a steel hook and some thread and create a gorgeous doily out of her head within a few hours. Something that would take others days and days to do. I once asked her to make me a few black doilies, gave her the thread and the unique designs she came up with was perfect. My brother had that, he looked at a photo and then made it, no instructions whatsoever. He even made a double the size (for queen bed) octagon blanket during this time.[/color]

Wow, I'm sad about your brother too. That's just wrong that he stopped the craft. He might have been another Crochet Dude or Mikey!

[tjwjlove]

pawpawtrys2, made a blue Knifty Knitter hat.

pawpawtrys2 by tjnllike, on Flickr

[tjwjlove]

pawpawtrys2, Made one in Brown with Blue. Enough of the Knifty Knitter. He's trying the needles. He'll be on the Learn To Knit with Shandeh.

pawpawtrys2 by tjnllike, on Flickr

[Shandeh]

Cool hats! I'm so glad he'll be joining us in the Learn to Knit group!