just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

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

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

The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

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

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.

In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.