Easy Knitting Patterns

Truckers across the United States are experiencing more and more downtime as they wait for their next load to haul. Hanging around a truck stop can get very boring so many are taking up hobbies as diverse as knitting and quilting. Knitting may seem an unusual hobby for a male truck driver, who make up 95% of the field, but it doesn’t surprise us.

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal here is the knitting experience of one truck driver:

Kevin Abraham-Banks, a 37-year-old trucker with a shaved head and dragon tattoos, passes time at truck stops with his cocoa and knitting.

Mr. Banks, who lives in Sioux Falls, S.D., and hauls romaine lettuce between California and the Midwest, learned to knit last year after load-volumes slowed. Creating something tangible beats sitting around the truck stop “talking about who has a bigger radio,” he said. He’s finished a scarf and socks, and is working on a sweater for his wife.

“The fact that you can take strands of thread and basically make something out of it, that’s awesome I think,” he said. “It’s pretty cool stuff, man.”

Knit on Truck Driver men. We salute you. We can just imagine the number of yarn shops that you can stop into while you are on on the road. How wonderful! Please feel free to share your projects in the comments below. We would love to see them.