as a KNITTER, i take umberage at the suggestion that i have lice (or as they are better known, cooties!) or that i spend time with cooties.--

i know that nit picking is endless task (and NYC, for one, has at least one professional nit picker, who hastens childrens return to school by clearing there hair of nits for a substantial fee.)

but nit picking and knitting have nothing in common.

(when knitters pick at their knitting, they either 'tink' (work backwards stitch by stitch to undo a mistake, or they
FROG (Rip it, rip it, rip it!) back rows and rows of work to resolve a long past problem. But they never nit pick!