if i only knew...

Knitting is the new yoga

B&N strarted selling Suss Knit Kits in their bookstores this week, and in the press release announcing the launch, they mention this: "Sales of books on knitting are soaring at Barnes & Noble, up 60 percent over last year." So if you needed quantitative proof that knitting is the new yoga, there you have it.

While cheking out the website for the kits, i came across the "client list" of the kits' designer, Suss Cousins: "Among her students and clients are Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Angela Bassett, Bill Cosby, Courtney Vance, Magic Johnson, Dustin Hoffman, Rhea Perlman, Lawrence Fishburne, Roseann Barr, Benjamin Bratt, Whoopi Goldberg, Heavy D, Steven Webber, Jada Pinket Smith, David Alan Grier, Kelly Preston, Robin Williams, Dermot Mulroney, Catherine Keener, Terrence Trent D'Arby and Elizabeth Shue."

I was kind of blown away. Julia Roberts' knitting hobby has been documented by just about every women's mag on the planet. Julianne, Angela, Whoopi, not bid surprises. But Bill Cosby, Magic Johnson, Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Fishburne, and Robin Williams? I just can't produce the mental image of them sitting down to knit away on multicolored yarn to produce a fuzzy scarf. :)