Care of a Knitter:

1. If you say, “I don’t understand,” expect a long explanation full of various Greek phrases such as “continental,” “casting off,” “malabrigo” (sp?), among other things. If the knitter is showing you an interesting technique, and you don’t understand, nod and smile.
2. If asked for a (presumably non-technical) opinion, just say, “Oh, honey, it’s beyond me. But the result you’ve gotten is superior to anything I’ve seen in a store.” (Provided such is true.)
3. Make sure she has yarn storage for her “stash.”
4. Large, plastic, salad-spinner bowls make excellent containers for kool-aid (or otherwise) dyeing yarn. If you find such a bowl on the counter, no salad having been consumed, this was its likely purpose.
5. There are many more dangerous objects in the knitter’s armory than non-knitters perceive…not only the standard metal knitting needles (see various slasher movies), but bamboo, plastic, and other materials, as well as double-pointed needles, circular needles (or is it a circular needle with two points?), etc. Beware the death trap of reaching into a disorganized knitting bag without a light….
6. Why is it called “knitting with needles” and not “nitting with kneedles” or “nitting with needles.” I suppose depending on what was being knitted, it could be “knitting with canoodles”….
7. It is truly best to let the knitter watch their own TV show without you in the room. If you try and watch anything together, especially something requiring the knitter’s visual attention, forget it. “Hey did you see that, ha ha ha. That was funny.” Knitter: %$@#$ made me drop a stitch!

-j.

 P.S. In the above post, I have used “she” and “her” for ease of reading. The masculine “he” or “his” or non-gendered pronoun “it” and possessive “its” may be used according to requirements.