Mary learned to knit at the age of 11 from her mother. It wasn't the image that so many painters have depicted... instead it was on an incredibly boring road trip that Mary's mom "hit the wall" with an overactive child in the back seat. It was somewhere in small town Ontario that she remembers being hauled into a Stedman's store where she chose red plastic needles and a ball of white acrylic yarn (because it would go with everything).

The rest of the trip is completely erased from her memory because she had learned to knit! She still loves to see what a child chooses for their first project and marvels at the vast selection available in today's yarn shops.

Favorite projects... usually the yarn inspires her first and she goes from there. She does love a bargain and the way a "sale" yarn can push her into a creative area she might not go otherwise.