I was standing in line to pay for my lunch last week and a lady behind me asked me where I bought my sweater.

I told her that I made the sweater and she could even get the pattern on The Journal Gazette's website.

She asked me if I ever made sweaters for other people, for pay. I said that the sweater took me about 40 hours to make. At, say, ten dollars an hour, that would come to 400 dollars, before I even added in the cost of the yarn.

Clearly aghast, she escaped the conversation as soon as possible.

I guess I could have offered to teach her to knit. Frankly, I'm wondering if a better answer next time might be, "I knit only for love, not for money."