knitting is a hereditary disease

The Talented Miss Olivia M.

Posted on 12/07/2007 by Andrea | Comments (0)
Filed under : Knitting

In case you've had your head in the sand for the last couple of days, the new winter issue of Knitty is up. And there was much rejoicing. But what I really want to point out is this beautiful pattern: Slippery Socks. Its author is a high school student named Olivia M. Her bio reads:

Olivia is a high school student in Northern Virginia.
She has been knitting since she was nine. She will knit anything once, but focuses mainly on socks. When she isn’t knitting, she reads, plays violin, and deals with massive amounts of homework.

How cool is that? If I'd learned how to knit at an earlier age, and if Knitty existed back then, I totally would have wanted this to be me. Incidentally, I probably would have written a similar bio for myself back then. I was into reading, playing the violin and doing massive amounts of homework, myself.

Good for you, Olivia M. Keep it up!

(Edited to add: I just noticed that there's a second pattern in this issue of Knitty written by a high school student: Dahlia. Also lovely. I just can't get over how cool that is! I wonder if I would have been a happier teenager if I'd had things like knitting, Knitty, Ravelry, etc. in my life.)