There Is No Wrong Way To Knit.

Your Average Knitter, Obsessed As We Are With The Art Form, Is Quickly Going To Begin Producing Far More In The Way Of Warm Things Than Are Needed By Even An Arctic-bound Knitter. Knitting Breeds Generosity, True...but Perhaps In A Hurry To Avoid Burying Ourselves In Hand-knits. There Are Only So Many Scarves One Knitter Can Use.

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.

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.

If You Were Ever Dumped After Knitting A Guy A Sweater, Consider The Possibility That The Problem Was With The Sweater, Not You. The Recipient Probably Took One Look At The Thing, Imagined A Lifetime Of Having To Pretend To Like (and Wear) This Sweater And Others Of Its Like, And Saw No Choice But To Flee Into The Night

It Is A Little Known Fact That Much Like Birds, Who Can Always Find North, Knitters Can Always Find Yarn.