I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

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

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

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