The Scourge of Skyward Knitting Needles: Gettin’ Finicky With the Fiber Arts!

Folks, it’s like I always say. It takes so little research to get something as simple as knitting correct in a picture book. And yet, and yet, and yet, year after year we watch some of the best illustrators of our age consistently draw knitting in a comically incorrect manner. Which is to say, they can’t resist making the ends of the knitting needles stand straight up like the antennae on a television that’s hoping to catch the 1984 World Series.

Now my reaction to this “scourge” of inattenti...