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
encounters engagement ifs
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
writing pieces favourite
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.
book character knitting
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
running yarn knitting
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
yarn knitting bird
It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
home knitting people
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.
knitting use world
Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.
fun mean waste
just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.
believe sleep color
I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.
art average hands
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.
knitting trying mood
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
normal world knitters
I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.
happy-birthday average two
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.
believe wool looks
Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.