gender specific crafting

Does your husband know the first crocheters were fishermen making their fishing nets? I guess a lot of men don't know that. Tell your husband to crochet a hammock. That's a man thing. I have a friend whose parents own a fabric shop. Her father, a retired welder, has really gotten into the whole thing and while he'll probably never put together a quilt he can tell you a lot about the fabric.

I ran into a young man who either knitted or crocheted in a craft store one day. He was asking people about a yarn he hadn't used before. He was knitting a scarf for his girlfriend who had picked out bamboo yarn (cause it feels good) and he hadn't used it before and was asking the staff questions. I actually oops in talking to him because I assumed it was the girlfriend doing the craft and not him.

I don't actually know any men who knit (though I can, after a fashion. My mother taught me and I suppose I could manage a pair of socks if I had to). I can also do crochet squares (though I'd have to brush up on it!) ... the kind that are made out of odd bits of wool and sewn together to make a very colourful blanket. I used to have one when I was little and have a great affection for them ... I spent hours studying the colours and patterns (you have reminded me of something long forgotten). I have, though, come across men who do cross-stitch (mostly pictorial and as both a mental exercise in the design and a relaxation in the execution) and, of course, weaving is something that men have traditionally done - my forbears were silk weavers, so I should know! Weaving, for them, though was a trade, not an art. I think that, today, knitting would be classed as a household skill; crocheting would be closer to an 'artistic hobby' and weaving (because it involves a rather greater investment in equipment) would be a hobby or an 'art'. These days, I think, there are more female spinners and weavers than male. Two hundred years ago, very few women would have been proud to have been called weavers.

Yes we have one guy here who teaches craft like making sugarpaste flowers,floral arrangements and the like. But I have yet to see men doing crocheting and knitting. I think it is a bit sissy to see men knitting. Women are flexible as they are jack of all trade.

I don't know any men that knit,but a i know a few who cook,clean and keep house.It does not matter about your gender these days.It was a bit of a surprise when we got on the bus and a woman was driving it.Shock Horror! Thank goodnes for that hey.No one takes any notice and if your husband were to learn to knit ,who would know ,if it is what he enjoys his real friends will back him up.Most of the dress designers are men ,not all of them,then you have all those hairdressers making thousands.I think men are not as dextrous as women maybe everybody has to keep warm.Eat and cooking is something men do especially those living without a partner or mother.I have come across quite a few single Dads that have to assume all the female rolls doing all the tasks a mother would do,sewing,mending,cooking,house workect.Tell your husband it has all been done before ,It takes more of aman to do what makes him happy.

No i do not know a man that knits,but my dad used to do rug making with my mum when they first got married and my brother do cross stitching,i do not know of any other male that do any other crafts.I think it is great that men do the crafts and i do not think there is anything wrong with a man doing crafts.

I got a pillow at a garage sale that the husband had made. The lady told me that when they were stationed in Iceland he discovered a group of men that sat around and knitted, so he went home, got his crocheting and sat with them. Seems to me I remember some football players who used to needlepoint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosey_Grier .