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

Hope you guys are doing awesome and there are some awesome things going on. My question is odd, but how many needles, or sets of needles do you have? How do you store them?

The reason I ask is that I now have about 150 sets of needles...NO, not separate needles, sets...1-10.5.

Thanks for any inspiration anyone can offer.

Josh

A young man I know has a story to tell…where family and friends knit relationships. I play a part, a small one, but I wanted to share this with my comrades at Men Who Knit. I am a long-term HIV survivor, but I will let him tell you
the story.

http://1month4aids.tumblr.com/

Worked on my mac, but HTML codes are not my forte.

Hello all!

I'm back and more involved with knitting and designing again.

I've created my first for sale pattern on ravelry. It is my go-to pattern for hats, and I wrote it out as a recipe for re-sizing etc (my preferred method of knitting patterns).

Check it out.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/basic-hat-recipe-with-square-decrease-section

From AKQGuy

I have been test knitting sock yarn for Ellen at Fiber Curio and Sundries.com Here is their latest offering: a wonderful 80% Cheviot, 20% mohair fingering that I knit into a pair of basic top down socks, with a partridge eye heel flap and round toe. The yarn is crisp and lustrous, a natural dark charcoal. It makes a very sturdy, manly sock that can be machine washed and wears well.

For the past six weeks or so I have been working on Girasole by Brooklyn Tweed (Jared Flood). It is a circular lace pattern that can be worked as a shawl or a

Hi all,

Check out my latest blog about those who don't knit and their reasonable alternatives: drugs and alcohol, monastic life, institutionalization or euthanasia.

http://knittingman.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/they-wont-knit/

Greetings all,

Some of you may remember that I was working on a cabaret opera based on the true story of the Papin Sisters...well it's on this year in Bath:
http://bathfestivals.org.uk/music/event/an-eye-for-an-eye/

Then in Orkney (I'll be stocking up on their marvellous locally-produced North Ronaldsay wool)

http://www.stmagnusfestival.com/programmedetail.htm

All the examples I see of brioche seem like di weight or heavier. Has anyone ever used finger or lace weight so its airier