The presentation is based on the research conducted among Finnish male trainee teachers. The informants were studying to become primary school teachers in the Finnish comprehensive school (years 1–6, age 7–12). Since ´crafts´ is a standard school subject in Finland, pedagogy of craft education was part of the informants´ teacher education. Regardless of the official gender neutrality of craft education in the Finnish comprehensive school, the school practices have been gendered resulting in most girls studying textile craft and almost all boys studying technical craft. The purpose of the study was 1) to reveal the processes that link gender and crafts in the education and upbringing of boys and 2) develop gender awareness and gender-sensitive pedagogy in teacher education of crafts. Data were collected by using memory work (N=8) and autobiographical writing (N=27) as research methods. Drawing on this data, I analyze the mechanisms that maintain and change the connection between gender and crafts in the education and upbringing of boys in Finland. The male trainee teachers reflected on their recalled experiences about craft education from the perspective of teacher education; the analysis of these reflections is utilized in the process of developing gender-sensitive pedagogy in teacher education of crafts.