Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka Yarnharlot, when she came to Los Altos, California, on September 9, standing on the right. Stephanie is the author of At Knits End: meditations for women who knit too much, Yarnharlot, Knitting Rules, and a fourth book coming out next March, and is one of the finest, funniest human beings I have ever had the good fortune to meet. She is the kind of person who makes everyone she meets instantly feel they are in the presence of a friend.
It was wonderful to see her again and to see a good person being so successful at what she loves to do. My husband looked at her pictures of the three hundred+ knitters who’d signed in at the shop and then walked to the back to the block-long parking lot that the city had roped off for the event, and commented that the next time, they’ll have to rent the Coliseum for her.
I gave her a pair of cobalt blue handflamed pyrex glass circular knitting needles, the handiwork of Sheila Ernst.