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
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knitting want obsessive
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
years buying steps
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.
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.
knitting acronyms acquisition
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
patient
You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit
night knitting sweaters
If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night
order pressure facts
I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.
humble order two
It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.
knitting trying mood
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
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.
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 underestimate complexity
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
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.
affliction hats results
Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.