Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

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 will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

I'm reasonably sure that Calvin Klein does not knit.

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

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.