I am a knitter myself, and I have rarely encountered any male knitters at the yarn stores I have visited, or the knitting events and courses I have attended. In my own family, both my grandmothers were knitters, I learned to knit from my mother, and she has taught my younger cousin (also female) to knit too. I recently learned that a male cousin of mine has taken up knitting, but I would have to say that over 90% of the knitters I have encountered in Canada are female.