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.htmlThank 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.....