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…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn,…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“It turns out that I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday?…

— 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

Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them.…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Consider telling those you teach that no matter how it feels to the new knitter, a dropped stitch has never actually caused…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Did you know that there are $4,000 washing machines? Seriously. If a washer is $4,000 I want it to get the laundry…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas”

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in…

— 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