Knitting Quotes

• Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Hurt, Spirit, Needlework

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• 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-McPhee

  Simple, Sweaters, Effort

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.49, Storey Publishing

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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  Magdalena Neuner

  Home, Feelings, Relax

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• A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Art, Coffee, Half

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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

  Yarn, Bird, Littles

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.19, Storey Publishing

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• Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Take A Deep Breath, Ready, Breaths

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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

  Mistake, Differences, Bigger

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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

  Fun, Self, Creative

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

  Agatha Christie

  Blood, Sitting, Pavement

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• Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Add, Use, World

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• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Humble, Order, Two

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.11, Storey Publishing

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• 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

  Ideas, Multitasking, Baths

  Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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• 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 Pingree

  Garden, Phones, Vegetables

  "What I've Learned: Representative Chellie Pingree (D, Maine)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 26, 2010.

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• I love the way knitting brings people together.

  Debbie Macomber

  People, Together, Way

  Debbie Macomber (2014). “A Good Yarn”, p.129, MIRA

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• People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Exercise, Hands, Skills

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• 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

  Party, Believe, Perfect

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• 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

  Nice, Writing, Sock

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• 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

  Running, Yarn, Chance

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.12, Storey Publishing

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• There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.

  Julia Roberts

  House, Relax, Machines

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• I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Trying, Mood, Circumstances

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.21, Storey Publishing

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• 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

  Skills, People, Achievement

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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-McPhee

  Hammocks, Too Much, Wonder

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• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Reading, Men

  "The St. Cloud Manifesto" (Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud) by Edvard Munch, 1889.

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• Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Upset Stomach, Long

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• 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-McPhee

  Home, People, Finding Yourself

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.24, Storey Publishing

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