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In this blog I will provide helpful tips, my own knitting designs, links to my YouTube videos, links to knitting tools I use, yarns, and much more. My goal is to show men that knitting isn't just for women and to try to encourage more men to knit. Men through history have knitted. Many believe the first knitters were fishermen as early as 200AD they made their own fishing nets. Shepherds also knitted while tending their flocks of sheep in Europe. In the 13th and 14th century knitting guilds were started by and composed of male artisans. In the 17th century many prominent male knitters were renowned in Spain, France and Germany. Historically in Iceland both men and women production knit side by side. In Peru men knit hats denoting their social stature. The start of the Industrial Revolution and textiles made by machines run by men led to women taking over the role of knitting. While more and more men are knitting, many think of it as only for women. ...