Men Who Knit Promoting and inspiring the art of knitting amongst men.

A note to anyone from the Oakland, CA area. The Knitting Guild Association (TKGA) is holding its National Conference there - April 20-23. Check out details of our event at www.TKGA.com. Hope you can come! We're expecting as many as 70 exhibitors (you can buy) and 40+ knitting classes and 3,000 visitors.

Here is my latest jacket for a woman at work

I like to use every spare minute knitting but I'm hesitant to pick it up when I have a few free moments if I'm not certain I can finish the row in the time available.  I've been told by several seasoned knitters that one never leaves off in the middle of a row for various reasons such as: it will leave a hole, the stitch will be misshapen or there will be a line in the knitting.  I have never read anything about this in any knitting book.  It's not like I'll leave it this way for long; I knit every day.  This fear of creating an additional problem prevents me from utilizing all those odd spare moments of the day.

Work is progressing on the love blanket square. My wrist is complaining a little, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish it tonight or not. I guess we'll see.

I also had some yarn delivered to me at work. It's some Elsebeth Lavold Silky Tweed that I ordered to make the elephant from the toy book David got me.

He said a few times that he liked the elephant, so I'm planning on working on it here at work in secret for his birthday in May. I also got a bit extra in the grey and a skein of red, probably to make a scarf for myself at so