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

 Hi Guys & ladylurkers

Who taught you how to knit & how old were you?

What is the difference between imitation and inspiration? I wonder this as I am currently working on a scarf that I have "designed" in that I took a stitch found in Nicky Epstein’s Knitting on the Edge and put it in a scarf. It is hardly a leap of imagination. Regardless, when I wear this scarf into my LYS and the nice ladies there ask me where I got the pattern, can I say I designed it, or should I say I got it from a Nicky Epstein book?

On a broader level, I have--as I’m sure many of us have--altered a design to better suit my tastes. At what point an altered design become its own design? If I knit a Kathy Zimmerman sweater in green Cascade 220 instead of Classic Elite, have I "designed" a sweater? What if I add an embellishment, or maybe do a garter rib in K4, P2 instead of K2, P2? When does the sweater stop being Kathy Zimmerman’s design?

Oh guys! If you have not yet seen the site that Billbear mentioned a few posts ago.  www.knotjustknitting.com Run, do not walk(type slowly) to that site.....it is unbelievable!!!! A truly inspiring site!!!!

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Are any of you members of the TKGA? (The Knitting Guild Assocation; http://www.tkga.com)  I've considered membership off and on for a few years now but I've never done it.  I have and am still considering doing their master knitter  certification program.  What are your thoughts on this?  IMHO, the TKGA is decidedly woman centered, but I guess I should tell us all something we wouldn't already know.<

Gentlemen, (and lady lurkers)

Martin put me up to this, so here goes!

Here is a question to ponder....Is there something about  fine, high-end natrual yarns and fibers that does, in fact, enhance the knitting experience....or is it just as pleasurable to knit with man-made fibers? The real question...are you a fiber snob and why????

Talk amongst yourselves....and then let us know

I've changed the way the members list is displayed.  It's now done in a columned, tabular format allowing you to sort by several criteria.  While certainly more attractive, I thought it might help folks find other nearby knitters via the sorting ability.  Enjoy!

In an effort to make it easier for you to add images to your posts as well as share other images you might have, but not necessarily want to write a lot about, I've added a new feature to the site.

If you look under the Create Content menu, you'll see a new option labeled "image" which you can use to add an image to the new image gallery, which is linked from the main menu.  I've created a few categories to get us started, but if an image you have doesn't fit, simply put it in the uncategorized section and I'll create a good place for it and move it there.

Once you've uploaded an image, you can also add it in to one of your posts.  To do this, simply browse the image gallery to find your image.  Once located, right-click on it and copy the link to that particular image.  When writing your post using the WYSIWYG editor, there's a little icon in the toolbar with a tree.  Clicking that will pop-up a box for you to paste the image link in to.

A number of you have written me in the last couple of months expressing your gratitude and asking about how you can help support the site.