Knitting Quotes
103 Knitting quotes by 67 unique authors
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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…
— Amy Dickinson
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Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too…
— Sylvia Plath
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in…
— Al Franken
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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
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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…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice…
— Lewis Carroll
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. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles…
— Christopher Moore
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
— Gerald Durrell
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The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped…
— Gregory Maguire
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I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what…
— Amy Tan
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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. Knitters are so compellingly…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen
— David Eddings
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Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
— Agatha Christie
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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…
— Elizabeth Zimmermann
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I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
— 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
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SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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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…
— Elizabeth Zimmermann
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I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
— Elizabeth Zimmermann
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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.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer…
— Justin Cronin
Who Wrote These Knitting Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 103 Knitting Quotes, led by these top contributors: