Best Knitters Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.”

Connection Sharing Knitting Knitters Knitter Knitting Community

Book:Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

Source: Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

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

Knows Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“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.”

Way Art Use Hands Form Needed Bounds Average Warm Generosity Obsessed Arctic Knitting Scarves Burying Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.”

Writing Littles Beautiful Talking Enjoyed Virginia Woolf Knitters

Author:Edith Sitwell

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

Projects Ultimate Assembly Knitting Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.”

Littles Facts Known Bird Knitting Yarn Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.”

World Use Values Add Knitting Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“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.”

People Inspirational May Motivational Running Constant Everyday Passionate Crafts Deliberate Knitting Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.”

Ifs Way Needs Eye Pleasure Talent Color Easier Enjoyed Knitters

Author:Nell Irvin Painter

“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 consequences in knitting.”

Differences Mistake Terrible Consequence Bigger Faster Knitting Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“...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 clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...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 need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.”

“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 mine, is an advantage.”

Needs Hands Courses Mines Advantage Average Superiors Needles Knitting Wool Needlework Knitters Superior Intelligence

Author:Elizabeth Zimmermann

“It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”

Needs Mind Two Problem Amount Weight Average Track Immense Saturday Underestimate No Problem Sock Stitches Happy Birthday Yarn Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“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.”

People Writing Believe States Reason Achieve Buying Appropriate Indication Heirs Yarn Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”

Spirit Hurt Knitting Needlework Knitters Knitting Needles

Author:Elizabeth Zimmermann

“The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.”

Reason Teach Cat Impressed Lace Knitting Scarves Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.”

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“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".”

Thinking Mind Seems Speak Waiting Process Term Please Projects Stones Block Statues Knitting Yarn Knitters

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.”

Soul Artist Community Perfect Musician Feminist Fats Filmmaker Activist Vegan Punk Oregon Portland Knitters

Author:Beth Ditto

“I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.”

World Normal Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“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.”

Believe Hard Seems Eye Causes Practice Century Disappear Cures Hysteria Hard To Believe Knitting Nervousness Ailments Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“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 need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.”

Way Needs Waiting Interest Lines Watches Tvs Office Doctors Add Layers Constructive Knitting Knitters Interest In Others

Book:Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

Source: Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

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

Eye Practice Disappear Knitting Knitters

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.”

Needs Reason Interesting Numbers Smart Boring Knitting Boring Things Knitters

Book:Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

Source: Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

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