Mary Neal Meador

Mary Neal Meador lives and knits in Boone, North Carolina. She is a graphic designer, editor, wicked grammarian, and stalwart punctuationist. She tends to knit without a pattern, and she has been known to work Fair Isle and cables in the same yoke.

Her extraordinary pattern in Modern Daily Knitting Outside the Lines, Margaret, calls for chain-stitched words of wisdom on the front and back of the cardigan. On hers:

Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”

And Gandhi: “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”