Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Stephanie Anne Pearl-McPheeis a writer, knitter, IBCLC or International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and doula living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 June 1968
believe party knitting
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.
simple sweaters knitting
When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.
opportunity waiting-in-line knitting
Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
knitting bored mad
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.
knitting purpose littles
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
eye knitting practice
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
knitting underestimate complexity
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
happy-birthday book remember
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
ideas yarn usual
As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.
block thinking yarn
Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".
mistake knitting consequence
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
husband thinking knitting
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
knitting doctors office
Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.
knows knitters
I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.