I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

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

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.