The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.
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.
There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.
All Newfoundlander men can knit.
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.
