It’s a Purl, Man

As promised in my last podcast here is a monkey update picture.
To the left is my computer, then there is my dinner and then.. MONKEY!!!
LEGS X 2
ARM X.5 (still on sticks)
MONKEY SCARF X 1
BODY PIECES X 3
SKEINS OF YARN X 1
This hot number is Elle, my knitting voice assistant. She is modeling the ‘Neapolitan Tote Bag’ that my punkin whipped up. This is a Theresa Gaffey design. Check your local yarn shop for this awesome pattern.

My mom brought these socks back from Chile in December. I am sharing these with you because I think feet pictures on the web are funny. Even as a knitter, I get it, I think that people should really think twice about sharing their feet (check out my hairy legs. Having said this, I would love to frame some of the socks that I have seen, sans feet.

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This is the best picture I found of a YGK at the Boston Knit Out:

I think I need to explain something to my valued listeners.

I don’t know if my podcast is appropriate for kids. While I encourage young guys to learn to knit, I don’t want to censor myself or others who might appear on my pod cast. This show is about expression and as most knitters know, knitting can create expressions that are pretty mature. (I hate ladders, that was the nice version)

Having said this, I would be interested in making a ‘younger guy knitter friendly’ special show highlighting young guy knitters projects as well as their thoughts and stories about knitting. If know or are a young guy knitter(YGK)(someone who is not yet in high school) please feel free to contact me about this.

If you are a young guy knitter, please ask your parents permission. Trust me, getting them mad at you at this point in your life will only make it harder to get the keys to the car when you are older.

Please only send me links to your images and audio commentary. My mailbox may explode otherwise.

I would be happy to help record young guy knitters in the Boston area if I can. If you have access to a space, say a classroom in the Boston area, that I can use for this project… That would make this go so much faster.

Looking forward to hearing about and from the YGK generation.

Details:
Please send me an email letting me know about your link info by the April 30th. I will be happy to start a page on my site showing off the projects as they come in. If you want me to link to your own blog, please make it clear in your email. This is not a competition, but I am going to use my descrition about what will end up on the site and podcast. The podcast is not a very long time for commentary, so please keep your audio comments to between one and three minutes. Thanks for contributing…

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I am in search of a manly sweater pattern that I would be proud to wear and that would look nice on me. It must be comfortable and noble in nature.

Ok, that’s all I know about that I want. Not a lot huh, but I do know what I don’t want in a sweater. Or should I say, I know what is available in the knitting magazines/internet sites/ books. The sweaters are all variations on the following themes:

Manly Stripe: I think this became popular with my generation in the early nineties with the Abercrombie & Fitch era. Seriously, is there no other way to switch colors on a man’s sweater?

Bumpy Pattern / Ribs / Chording: While I like some of these techniques and they can look pretty cool, I feel like this is a cop-out. As if to say, men can’t possible handle some of those other knitting patterns.

Argile: Sorry, I am just not flaming enough to pull this off. That would require a lot more working out than I currently do.

Single MUD color: This is the most offensive part of the majority of man sweaters that I have found so far. Men have been known to wear more than one color at a time, and sometimes that color can be something other than grey, heather grey, black, tweed grey, or khaki.

Cosby Art Sweater: Bill Cosby wore them well, but I think I would get dizzy staring at my own chest in he mirror and never make it out of the bathroom in the morning.

I’ll let you know when I find anything I do like.

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I really want to do a pod cast site. I have been listening to other pod casts on the web and have been inspired. Or maybe what I mean to say is that I want to start a pod cast so that I can hear others talk about my pod cast. Yes, I love having my ego stroked by others.

Who Doesn’t?

In this vain, I have started to have dreams about what my theme music would be like for my pod cast. I have a good friend, Adam Brodsky, who is a anti-folk singer and I keep imagining that he will compose a ballad to guys knitting for me.

And here are the words that I think would start off the song:

(In a waltz/western like rhythm with a bit of guitar/violin twang or Dylan’isc if you prefer. Either way the voice I imagine is low in a Johnny Cash Sort of way)

Manly Stripes
Cable Knits
Long Grey Sweaters
Are the things that gentlemen wear

I don’t know
About you, bub
But I wish for better
Until then I’ll just sit here and bitch(or knit?)

(kick ass guitar solo with a little bit of reverb, this is where I would voice over the intro to the podcast)

I think this would make an awesome song. I think that I need a better second verse. And for this I hope to turn it over to my musical friend Adam.

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I have a thing about shaving and haircuts. I don’t care for them that much. Not that I don’t like to have nice looking hair or a clean shaven face, but the maintenance is not for me. I always forget, or am in a rush to do something else. I mean, these activities really cut into my knitting time.

So I believe that my knitting suffers because of these mundane tasks. That’s like 15 minutes a day and half an hour every two weeks. So when all is said and done that’s eight hours a month wasted to hair care. In eight hours I could knit, a hat, half a stuffed monkey, a bag, the back of a sweater (maybe), maybe a sock.

I think it is time that I take some of this time back.

In lieu of this, I propose that I will not shave until I have completed my first sweater. So when I finish my sweater I will be all cave manly, Or without an S.O. Whichever comes first.

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