Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Barbara G. Walker

Born: July 2, 1930
Died: December 21, 2025 (aged 95)
Bio: Barbara G. Walker was an American author and feminist. She was an influential knitting expert and the author of several classic encyclopedic knitting references, despite "not taking to it at all" when she first learned in college.
Known for:
- A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns (1968)
- Knitting from the Top (1972)
- Mosaic Knitting (1976)






