Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes - Page 2

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• I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

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  Believe, Sleep, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.156, Storey Publishing

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• I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.

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  Knitting, Assembly, Projects

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.181, Storey Publishing

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• The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

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  Eye, Knitting, Practice

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

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  Knitting, Add, Use

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• Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".

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  Block, Thinking, Knitting

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• As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

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  Ideas, Yarn, Usual

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• I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

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  Children, Knitting, Freak

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.16, Storey Publishing

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• Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

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  Believe, Writing, Yarn

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.229, Storey Publishing

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• I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

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  Knows, Knitters

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• just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

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  Fun, Mean, Waste

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• I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

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  Knitting, Trying, Mood

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.21, Storey Publishing

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• The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

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  Running, Knitting, Yarn

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.12, Storey Publishing

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• Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

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  Believe, Wool, Looks

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• 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 believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

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  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

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  Affliction, Hats, Results

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2006). “Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks”, p.103, Storey Publishing

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• Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.

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  Art, Knitting, Average

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• 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 will think is worth being woken up for.

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  Husband, Thinking, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.26, Storey Publishing

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• When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

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  Sweaters, Needs

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2006). “Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks”, p.190, Storey Publishing

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• You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

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  Knitting, Hammocks, Too Much

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

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  Happy Birthday, Book, Remember

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.17, Storey Publishing

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• Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

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  Knitting, Purpose, Littles

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• The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

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  Encounters, Engagement, Ifs

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• The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

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  Writing, Pieces, Favourite

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• I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

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  Knitting, Underestimate, Complexity

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.13, Storey Publishing

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