- Writer | June 14, 1968 -
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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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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.
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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.
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I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.
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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.
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Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
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The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
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Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.
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All Newfoundlander men can knit.
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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.
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The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
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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.
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