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Elizabeth Zimmermann has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing…
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Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
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Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
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Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few…
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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…
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What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and…
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There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what…
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For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.
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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…
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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…
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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
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