Ribs, purls and beer at NY men's knitting night

Reuters/Yahoo news ^ | Jan. 18,2006 | Sharon Reich

[Kimmers]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you're stuck for entertainment in New York on a Friday night, and as long as you're man enough, try learning to rib at "Boyz Nite" at a Greenwich Village venue from 9 until late.

[Kimmers]

I am waiting for the movie "Brokepurl Mountain"

[in hoc signo vinces]

The wussification of the US citizenry knows no end.

[massgopguy]

Didn't Rosie Greer used to do this?

[wideawake]

"I wish I knew how to knit you!"

[stocksthatgoup]

Very Metro........

[mallardx]

Yes, but he was the last cool "man-knitter." ;^)

[wideawake]

It's like they never heard of a deck of cards.

[Calpernia]

Oh Goody Clemenza! You are moving back to the Tri State just when the night life is revving up!




::laughing! er... maybe crying?::

[Kimmers]

Oh baby !!!!

[mrs. a]

"Didn't Rosie Greer used to do this?"

Naaaah, he was a needlepoint dude...

[colorado tanker]

What do their wives do? Go play pool and drink boilermakers at a biker bar?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Odd story about men knitting...

[finnman69]

Knitting worked for John Spartan

[wideawake]

Yeah . . . but he also sang that propaganda song they used to play in my kindergarten class entitled "It's All Right To Cry."

Luckily my father was alert enough, and was able to inform me that it's not "all right" for a growing boy to blubber like a little girl.

[peyton randolph]

Carey Grant made fun of this in the 1943 movie "Mr. Lucky."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036174/

[wideawake]

They'd have a better chance of finding real men on that itinerary.

"I'm knitting now!"

"OK. I just want you to know that this is like, the first of three conversations leading up to the part where you're gay."

[rattrap]

Looking for a man to keep you in stitches?

[in hoc signo vinces]

"Dude, you know how I know you're gay? You macromaed yourself a pair of jean shorts."

[finnman69]

Instead of

"I'd hit that"

you get

"I'd knit that."

[colorado tanker]

LOL! I thought about that after I posted. What makes me think those guys are married to women??

[retrokitten]

There's a photo with the article. None of these guys scream "hetro" to me.

[retrokitten]

This article just gets more terrifying the more I read it.

"Believe me, we love women," said store manager Josh Bennett. "But it's like when guys get together to watch a football game, they have all that in common so there's that sense of excitement. After a long week, you can come and work on your project have a couple of beers and hang out."

"And I made a bikini pattern for a guy who wanted to knit a bikini for his girlfriend."
-My husband knits me anything ever and we are so divorced.

Sumner, who has family in Florida, said: "My mom and dad were skeptical at first but they saw the first scarf that I made and they were kind of into it," he said. "Everybody in Florida is getting a scarf next year. They're all getting scarfs and mittens."
-Goody. Just what every Floridian needs, scarves and mittens.

[knittnmom]

Sumner, who has family in Florida, said: "My mom and dad were skeptical at first but they saw the first scarf that I made and they were kind of into it," he said. "Everybody in Florida is getting a scarf next year. They're all getting scarfs and mittens."

Preferences aside, why would anyone in Florida needs scarves or mittens??

[Dashing Dasher]

The wussification of the US citizenry knows no end.

Agreed...

[Dashing Dasher]

Rosie Greer - tough in the kitchen - tough while doing needlepoint...

[baker_girl]

Reminds me of Demolition Man (?) when Sylvester Stallone knitted a sweater.

[carlr]

Each one to his own but no thanks.

I would`nt wear a knit sweater much less make it.

[martin_fierro]

Ewwww.

[cyborg]

Greenwich Village???

[mrs. a]

Rosie scared the liver out of me when I was but a tot.

I was afraid he'd come to my house and cry in front of me.

Too creepy for words.

[retrokitten]

Doesn't that just sum it up? LOL

[cyborg]

LOL

[LongElegantLegs]

Thanks for the ping; Is the VRWKC still in operation?

[Dashing Dasher]

I wouldn't call him a wuss (to his face) though!

[in hoc signo vinces]

This was a poker night conversation the other night...my boys and I were wondering why girls see anything in "metrosexuals"...they're just moes who havent come to terms with being Brokeback Mountain cast rejects...

[voiceinthewind]

Hmm, my reply never made it to the thread. Anyway, there is an excellent book, " No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting", by Anne Macdonald. Apparently men knitting is no new phenomenon. There were guilds for knitters that were restricted to men, women could knit at home but men could make a profit from it. Also, http://www.menknit.net/history.html

[Alia]

Thanks for the ping, Knitting A Conundrum.

Trivia: Long before the APA turned everyone into a pill-popping sci-fi schematic, knitting and needlework were often employed in the thereuptic fields -- for men and women alike, undergoing therapy. The act of doing something productive and with their hands (a hobby) helped ease inner tensions.

And lastly (and I KNOW you know this), men have been knitting since they first learned how to fish -- they knit nets. In every country, in past, and some still do!

[edchambers]

I thought Rosie was into needle point. They're not exactly the same thing....pssst, don't ask me how I know this

[xsmommy]

admit it, you're a secret needleworker....

[FOG724]

I'm still looking for crafters and needle workers in the SAcramento area.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Rosie did needlepoint, I believe. Much more manly, LOL!

My step-Dad hooks rugs...but his problems go MUCH deeper than that. ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"And I made a bikini pattern for a guy who wanted to knit a bikini for his girlfriend."

My husband makes me hand-crafted jewelry with semi-precious stones that he polishes and tumbles himself. Right now, he's polishing an opal for me, and there are sapphires in the rock tumbler...

What woman wouldn't hit that? LOL! (Hands off!)

[Kimmers]

Thank you I checked out the website, it was really kind of neat.....personally I really do not care if guys knit or not..... I will still take my non knitting husband, I prefer the smell of Hoppes gun cleaning oil to that of yarn.....

[retrokitten]

Hand-crafted jewelry is in a completely different realm. The jewelry making husband is the stuff of myths and legends, like the straight male hairdresser husband.

He's a keeper!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I've been sick! I've had ear infection, fifth disease, flu, sinus infection, anaphylexic antibiotic reaction, and I'm just getting better.

You're the first person, during all that time of one after the other thingies to ask....January was not a good month for me...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I wish I had some needleworker freeper friends in the Ogden UT area, myself...

[LongElegantLegs]

Oh, my God, I'm so sorry! But I'm glad you're feeling better.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

It was an unpleasant month, but now it's February. Now begins the long haul into spring! If I were living back in Houston, I'd be thinking: two more weeks until it's time to prune the roses.

But it'll be a while more to go here. Still time to think about cool weather knitting....

[alwaysconservative]

Glad you're better! I have knitting "issues" I need to discuss. . .(LOL!)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I am always willing to answer knitting questions!