Manning the needles

I've been hard at work for most of my waking hours on something that needed to be done a long time ago, so today I'm only able to provide a link and spare a stray thought or two.

Why, look, it's an article about men who knit in the Champaign-Urbana, Illinois area. I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure I've been to both LYS locations mentioned in the article. Other than the local angle, it's a prototypical story that weeds out the condescension that creeps in sometimes.

And of course I had to laugh at this:

"It's not the kind of thing you're going to be as open about ... as women are," Brechin said.

Whoever would have such an attitude?