“…Hewitt (2010) interviewed eight men who knit for an undergraduate thesis, and she found high levels of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital were created when men knitted together and in public, and the well-being of men who knit was also enhanced. Morneau (2015) interviewed 15 men who knit, and two of her major findings were that homosocial bonds formed at men's knitting retreats, and the opinions of straight men about gay men changed as a result of the retreats, thus supporting inclusive masculinity (Anderson, 2009;Morneau, 2015). A doctoral dissertation by Avramsson (2016) investigated men's knitting in terms of a queer pedagogy and focused on "gendered desires, anxieties, and places where critical dissatisfactions with culture…”