I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit