An hilarious tribute to the challenges of learning to knit.

In past generations, mothers would teach their children to knit. It sounds like the last thing in the world that could completely crush a human's soul.

Ah, the soul-crushing qualities of knitting. And you thought the worst you could do was accidentally stab yourself with a needle.

Wrap yarn around one of the needles in some arcane pattern, then pull one needle so the yarn follows it and makes a neat little loop: obviously done by magic, and complicated magic at that.

Harry Potter can do magic, but only Ron's mom can knit! Of course, she uses magic to do it.

When you work on simple tasks, your brain disengages from your hands and you slip into a quiet, Zen-like state, like Prozac without the creepy side effects.

Knitting as drug-free therapy? Nice.

Posted by Hilary at June 16, 2004 05:25 PM