Men Who Knit?

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OUT2THEBLACK

Friday, January 19, 2007 7:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:

Think how much more you'd know if you could sit with
me and watch me wave my arms about.
Between Grandma and books on the topic, and just
looking very closely at fancy patterns, plus a
bunch of experiments, I learned how to reproduce
just about anything.

Amazingly, a lot of it turns out to be more
math-y than craft-y.

Well , if you can ' knit ' and " reproduce just about anything " , see if you can find a way to get our beloved pilot-savant back ! He needs some repairs...

GORBISHUN

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:44 AM

I say go for it. If anyone tries to make fun of you you can always knit a sock to stuff in there mouth

By the way, those sites are hilarious--menwhoknit.com
Good stuff...

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«°-:-°»Also... I can kill you with my brain.«°-:-°»

FLATTOP

Friday, January 19, 2007 12:20 PM

Hetero male myself.
I don't knit, but I do crochet.
Couple'a baby blankets, and scarves so far. Working on a scarf (all of it single-crocheted on a 4mm hook. Makes for a tight stitch, very warm, very slow) and a granny square full-size bed blanket.
Did a red scarf (enlisted folk in the Independent Army wore red ones) for myself just recently.
Anyway...
When you cast on (is that the correct knitting term?) your first row, you will be very tempted to pull the yarn nice and tight (proper knots are tied tightly after all). Don't. Just use whatever tension there is from looping the yarn around your little finger. Otherwise you will get a rhomboid (narrow at the beginning, wider as you work) instead of a square.
When you tie off a color or end the piece, leave a couple'a three inches of yarn to tuck back into the piece; don't cut it off right at the knot.

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SABRI3L

Friday, January 19, 2007 1:58 PM

Good advice. The only firefly thing I ever knit was a Jayne hat. Right now I'm working on a baby garment that looks like a kimono, and a set of legwarmers.

Knitter of Cunning Jayne Hats

http://www.myspace.com/gazthegloomy

QUANTUMCAT

Friday, January 19, 2007 2:49 PM

I can't wait to look at those sites!

As I recall,knitting was,at one time,a 'men
only' task for tough guys like sailors and
soldiers.

They had to master all utilitarian skills
because there might not be anyone else around to
do it.

If the setting did allow for the alpha males to
delegate work to a class of underlings,a fellow
better know how to cook,clean,sew,knit,grow food,
tend to livestock,etc. because he might have to
assume those duties for his bosses!

Women were allowed into the higher realms of the
textile arts later.

By this time,knitting designs,fabric
patterns,etc. had long been used as a means of
identifying the members of a clan,regiment,etc.

One might not know kith or kin (especially if
they were deceased ) without the color or weave
of their garments providing hints of where they
called home.

Lots of 'female' stuff was once exclusively
male.

Knitting,wearing skirts,clerical work,etc. were
not considered appropriate for delicate ladies
who might wear pants,wristwatches or smoke packs
of Marlboros.

Now we do whatever our hearts,talents and
opportunities allow.

Reality will limit our options enough without
putting up artificial cultural barriers.

Kudos to all who add to their cache of
abilities-whatever their age,gender,race or
station.

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CLJOHNSTON108

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:05 PM

My Dad was a Set Designer, and he went through a phase where he was obssessed with needlepoint.
He made several throw-pillows and this amazing three-panel piece that wrapped around the french doors in the living room!

He would design all these on graph paper (with a grid that matched the weave of the canvas) in Pantone markers.

Since I take after my Dad in my need for visual references, I took a look to see if there was any software available online for knitting "schematics"...

Knitting Wizard | software to create knitting grids
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/knittingwizard.html

Cool, huh?

This project is looking better every minute!

EDIT: Hmmmm, the software only creates a rectangular grid. Not what I had in mind.
I was thinking more along the lines of a picture labelled with stitch counts...

I think I can make one in Illustrator ——— I've got enough pictures of the thing!
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"Spry for a dead fella!"

CLJOHNSTON108

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:12 PM

Thanks for that, quantumcat!

Quote:
Originally posted by quantumcat:
They had to master all utilitarian skills
because there might not be anyone else around to
do it.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects."
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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"Spry for a dead fella!"

KAYNA

Friday, January 19, 2007 9:31 PM

I'm just posting to say way to go. I have no hints for you as I don't knit. I'll have to second that comment about guys who knit (or wear "girly" colors like pink) are pretty sexy. It's got something to do with being comfortable with your self.

Also my baby brother (one of those annoying folk who can have pretty much any person of the opposited gender he wants) has been knitting since he was about 17. No one seems to mind. In fact, most of his friends think it's cool and keep hasseling him to make them stuff.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

CLJOHNSTON108

Friday, January 19, 2007 10:45 PM

Thanks, Kayna!

...

I was just looking for more websites by Knitters of Cunning Jayne Hats, and I just about fell off my chair laughing when I got to this blog...

http://www.rose-kim.com/rose-kimknits/2005_12_01_jessknitblog_archive.
html

Quote:
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Times When It Sucks to Have a Husband with a Giant Head

1) When giving birth to his children.
2) When making him a hat.

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"Spry for a dead fella!"

DOCTROID

Friday, January 19, 2007 11:54 PM

Here's the LiveJournal of a friend of mine who's a knitting guy (though not a browncoat): http://jwgh.livejournal.com/profile .

I was just saying to Stinkingrose the other night maybe I'd have her teach me to knit one of these days.

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