Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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)






