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 Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
