SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

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

I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.

Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.