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
beautiful clever yarn
A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).
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".
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.
believe writing yarn
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.
fate yarn trying
I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.
shopping yarn knitting
It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.
became humor knitting seem since understood
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
bump figure people
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.
famous life people wildly
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
golfers knitting magazine north though twice
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.
essential means taken time worried
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.
deliberate everywhere knit people run sort time
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.