It's popular with young mothers because they do all that carting and carpooling of kids.

It's not your grandma's yarn shop anymore. The yarns do all the work for you.

Coffee shops gave knitting a lot of public exposure. Knitting is a very social thing and very portable. Unlike a sewing machine or a weaving loom, you can take it with you.

It is a big surprise to all of us in the yarn business.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

That's what it's going to take - veterans groups, veterans and mothers who have lost kids speaking out.