Personal Note: Magic!

A friend from grad school who blogs as Doc Maureen expresses my opinion of the knitting fraternity:

People who knit astound me. I am astounded. They take two sticks and some string and wave them around and make CLOTHES. It’s like a miracle. Or magic, even, what with the waving around of sticks and all.

And now I imagine people walking down the crafting equivalent of Diagon Alley to a small, quiet shop where the needles choose the knitter ...