Christine McGovern learned to knit at age eight. She spent her career as a high school English teacher and administrator and taught her students to knit while reading Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. Now retired, she enjoys teaching knitting at a local hospital and at N Street Village, a provider supporting women experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C. She lives with her attorney husband in Bethesda, Maryland, and enjoys helping out with her five grandchildren.