Knitting Quotes - Page 4

• Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Smoking, Agents, Sock

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• Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Couple, Heart, Wish

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 518-519, 2005.

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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 words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Philosophy, Satisfaction, Few Words

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• You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

  Daniel Mainwaring

  Women, Guy, Dames

  "Fictional character: Fisher". "Out of the Past", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Shopping, Yarn, Use

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing

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• (knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Father, Curves

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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".

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Block, Thinking, Yarn

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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 stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Long, Stay Calm

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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

  Want, Obsessive, Activity

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost

  Cheryl Strayed

  Sweaters, Hiking, Effort

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.198, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Sweaters, Hiking, Effort

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• Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

  Lauren Willig

  Manners, Needles, Application

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.299, Penguin

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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.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Sleep, Color

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

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Purpose, Littles, Social

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• When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

  Michael Parkinson

  Stars, Real, Fighting

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  Brian May

  Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• I have written some songs, but I would really call what I’ve done poetry at the end of the day, because I’ll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won’t touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don’t have time, because I’d rather be doing other things, like knitting.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Song, Guitar, The End Of The Day

  Interview with Justin Timberlake, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

  David Eddings

  Knitting Needles, Want, Needles

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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 than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Baby, Sweet

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• 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 books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Book, Littles, Projects

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• Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club

  Kate Jacobs

  Inspirational, Friday, Jobs

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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 In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Baby, Air

  Elizabeth Zimmermann (2012). “Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Spring, Thinking, America

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• Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

  Maimonides

  Hands, Practice, Understanding

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• Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

  Eric Gurney

  Mistake, Cat, Animal

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.95, Pickle Partners Publishing

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