Monday, November 26, 2007

Knitting has lost a great personage

Mary Walker Phillips has died of complications from Alzheimer's. We have lost another Great in the Knitting World. Her obituary may be seen in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times online.

2 comments:

N. Maria said...

Oh, how very sad.
She did, indeed, bring so much to the knitting world and will be missed.

yarn elf said...

The knowledege she imparted has had an effect on every knitter. But the loss is the knowledge of never being able to ask a question to gain insight to all she knew.