AWS
Custom Accessory Maker & Retired PM Staff
A couple of years ago my sister made me some camo knit fingerless gloves that have been just what I've been looking for duck hunting. I wear them over a thin pair of wool gloves and they are very warm and here where I hunt in rain every day I keep a couple of sets in plastic bags in my blind bag and switch them out when they get soaked even staying pretty warm when wet. They have great feel on the trigger and are inexpensive. I've tried many types of so called waterproof gloves over the years and in a season with 50+" of rain none of them have kept my hands dry and they are a pain to dry out again. Knit glove just go in the dryer or I have a clothes line in my van and they dry out while I sleep at night and are ready to go again in the morning.
I spend a lot of time in my van during hunting and fishing seasons as much as 6 months of the year. Most nights I read during the off time and have a Kindle with close to 1800 books on it. This winter my wife has taught me to knit and now I'm making my own camo gloves(six pairs done) and I've just started a camo watch cap with a drop down camo face mask.
Never thought I'd knit but am having fun with it, designing my own patterns for gear I could never find in the store. I do sew also making tents, boat covers and clothes I cant buy. Years ago when I lived in a tent for three years hunting, fishing, trapping and building houses during the summer I converted a modern sewing machine to treddle powered and took in mending to make beer money in the off season.
It pays to learn new skills that men never think they could ever use.
Historic tidbit. At one time in the past it was illegal for women to knit it was men with experience making nets that were the knitters.
I spend a lot of time in my van during hunting and fishing seasons as much as 6 months of the year. Most nights I read during the off time and have a Kindle with close to 1800 books on it. This winter my wife has taught me to knit and now I'm making my own camo gloves(six pairs done) and I've just started a camo watch cap with a drop down camo face mask.
Never thought I'd knit but am having fun with it, designing my own patterns for gear I could never find in the store. I do sew also making tents, boat covers and clothes I cant buy. Years ago when I lived in a tent for three years hunting, fishing, trapping and building houses during the summer I converted a modern sewing machine to treddle powered and took in mending to make beer money in the off season.
It pays to learn new skills that men never think they could ever use.
Historic tidbit. At one time in the past it was illegal for women to knit it was men with experience making nets that were the knitters.
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