Knitting Quotes

103 quotes by 67 authors

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… — Sufjan Stevens
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about… — Terry Pratchett
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
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… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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… — 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 of hard to… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people. — Bill Hybels
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
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… — Arto Lindsay
One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — 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… — 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
What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
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… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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… — Chellie Pingree

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