For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposite direction you are really picking up the concavities between the loops, and it is sheer unexpected witchcraft that stocking stitch and garter stitch will permit such an anomaly. Be grateful for this and don't expect anymore.

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.