My sister is an absolute knitting fool. She's obsessed with her bag of yarn. They actually know her now at Joanne Fabrics or whatever that store is called. Thanksgiving day she comes over to my house and sits there knitting a blanket for litterally three hours...then decides she doesn't like the color/pattern whatever so she rips it all out. Mind you this was about three feet worth of work. Then she puts all that back and then some with a new color combination. That's whacked if you ask me but hey she was enjoying it. She's made all sorts of things including sweaters, hats, scarves and the like. Some of them actually look pretty nice.
One other thing...she was raving about the new needle set she's picked up. It's the mac daddy set of knitting needles (apparently there is a mac daddy set of these -- much to my shagrin).