Tabeabd: Whoah my troll looks so dapper! What a brilliant thing to wake up to!
This is somewhat different from IRL America, where there's still (regrettably) a certain amount of stereotyping about knitting and crocheting. The hipster knitting revival of the last 20 years at least went some ways towards removing the "little old lady" stigma. And the younger generation seems to be at least a bit less judgmental about "boy things" and "girl things" than when I was your age... which is a relief.
Attitudes toward knitting etc. change quickly and depending on what skills are needed, so I would also wager knitting would be seen as a highly useful skill. My dad's generation of boys was still taught how to knit, how to darn clothes and sew buttons, and it wasn't thought of as anything specifically feminine. Likewise I was taught to handle a carving knife (the
puukko of course) at very young age because among the skills seen as necessary were cleaning mushrooms, fish etc. It had less to do with gender and a lot more to do with your family teaching you what you need to know in life in general.
Up until very recently knitting had fallen out of favour though, but when it was seen as uncool it was seen thus by both genders and possibly powered up by their parents' opinions, because everyone has to learn to knit at school and most people have horror stories of how their teachers treated them if they didn't get the hang of it fast enough. My friend's mother knitted too tightly so her teacher took scissors to her halfway done work and cut it off the needles... she never knitted again after ground school.
Nowadays knitting is back in fashion as both a skill and clothing, and it makes me really happy to see all the modern variations of f.ex. the traditional Icelandic round collar sweater. Besides it's a really useful garment for the weather here!
So TL;DR the crew would probably love anyone with the skill and interest in knitting and unusual patterns would simply be seen as a positive thing, something you don't see every day.
