quotes about Knitting
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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
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I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
-- Amy Dickinson -
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.
-- Arto Lindsay -
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One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
-- Bill Hybels -
I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.
-- Brian May -
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
-- Chellie PingreeSource : "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.
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I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
-- Clare Balding -
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I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen
-- David Eddings -
I love the way knitting brings people together.
-- Debbie MacomberSource : Debbie Macomber (2014). “A Good Yarn”, p.129, MIRA
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Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.
-- Desiree Linden -
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
-- Dorothy Day -
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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
-- Elizabeth Zimmermann -
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.
-- Elizabeth ZimmermannSource : Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.18, Courier Corporation
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Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.
-- Eric GurneySource : Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing
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What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.
-- Frances Moore Lappé -
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
-- Gerald Durrell -
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
-- Henry Beard -
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[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!
-- J. R. Ackerley -
Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.
-- Jessica Day George -
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.
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Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
-- Lauren WilligSource : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin
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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .
-- Maimonides -
I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.
-- Mizuki Nomura -
If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
-- Patricia Briggs -
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
-- Sam Brownback -
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
-- Simon Campbell -
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.15, Storey Publishing
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The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.94, Storey Publishing
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
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There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.
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You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.294, Storey Publishing
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I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.49, Storey Publishing
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Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.
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I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
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Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing
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You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
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You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
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It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.24, Storey Publishing
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If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.
-- Sufjan Stevens -
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It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
-- Tony Curtis -
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.
-- Glenn McQuaidSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
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My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.
-- Linda Goldstein Knowlton -
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-- Magdalena Neuner -
"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.
-- Rachel Hawkins -
Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.
-- Vera Brosgol -
I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.
-- Beatrice Lillie -
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You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.
-- Daniel MainwaringSource : "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.
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Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'
-- Ron ConwaySource : "Ron Conway: S.F. mover and shaker" by Heather Knight, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2012.