You know you are a knitter when...

...your family gives you knitting gifts! It was a lovely Christmas and my gifts from my family were so perfectly suited to me. Jim bought me a beautiful knitting basket, hand made through fair trade cottage industry in Rwanda. Rob bought me three promising skeins of yarn, one of which is already in use turning into mitts, and Barbara bought me the loveliest sock book that combines the history of sock knitting with inspirational sock patterns, which I resolve to try this year. I appreciate and all of these gifts; it is good to feel both loved and understood....