Top 100 Quotes About Knitting
#1. Means of dealing with the Three Furies before they drove her crazy or assassinated each other with rolling pin or knitting needle.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine
Charles Dickens
#3. She was passionate about knitting because it allowed her to reach a state of peacefulness, and she loved to embroider because it let her express her creativity. Both activities were liberating. They allowed her to exist outside of time.
Laura Esquivel
#4. It appeared that she was attacking a new knitting hobby with more determination than skill.
Katie Ruggle
#5. You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?
Clara Parkes
#6. Since neither of us needs sleep we take night buses, sharing earphones and listening to knitting podcasts. If anyone else on the bus notices anything about us they assume it's because they're drunk. I've
Helen Oyeyemi
#7. Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. Sabrina fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.
John Milton
#9. I look away from him, replying sarcastically, Well, you can tell JT and Pete for me that the next time they hold a knitting bee and gossip circle, I could use a new sweater!
Amy A. Bartol
#10. But the woman who stood knitting looked up steadily, and looked the Marquis in the face.
Charles Dickens
#11. It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
Tony Curtis
#12. I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
Clare Balding
#13. I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy
er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.
Mizuki Nomura
#14. 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.
Kate Jacobs
#15. Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
Edith Sitwell
#16. Her face worked in an odd way, like knitting coming undone.
Barbara Comyns
#17. You could take up knitting," he suggested.
My eyebrows scrunched together. "The Angel of Death is suggesting I adopt knitting as a hobby?"
Warren's shoulders shook with with silent laughter.
Elicia Hyder
#18. Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI.
Charles Dickens
#19. Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family and friends.
Martha Waterman
#20. Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Magdalena Neuner
#21. I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell.
Ann Hood
#22. Anyone continually knitting his life into contexts of intention, import, and clarifications of meaning will in the end find that he has lost the sense of experiencing life.
Joseph Campbell
#23. But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better.
Elizabeth Harrower
#24. It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#25. When I ducked out, she was talking to Ana Whitney and some Roarke exec about knitting. The three of them were into it like it was their religion.
J.D. Robb
#26. 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
#27. In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.
Reba Linker
#28. Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.
L.M. Montgomery
#29. It's much easier than I thought it would be."
Most things in knitting are, really.
Gil McNeil
#30. O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
Siegfried Sassoon
#32. Easy as knitting kitten-britches, as Momo liked to say.
Stephen King
#33. I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.
Amanda Seyfried
#34. and together we pushed through paragraphs, painstakingly sounding out the words, knitting them into human sentences that said very little.
Miranda July
#35. And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history.
Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together ... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.
Anne Bartlett
#36. You prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.
Agatha Christie
#37. Don't be disgusting.
Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught violin and also led the cheerleading squad. I skipped all my classes and failed with distinction.
Gregory Maguire
#38. With her toddler playing on the floor by her feet, his widow now nursed her new baby on the porch of her homeplace, attended by comforting women who sat with their knitting and embroidery and spoke only of happy things.
Lois Lowry
#39. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.
Felicia Day
#40. There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#41. Tip thought this strange Army bore no weapons whatever; but in this he was wrong. For each girl had stuck through the knot of her back hair two long, glittering knitting-needles.
L. Frank Baum
#43. 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 was beginning to say.
Lewis Carroll
#44. The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.
Laura Esquivel
#45. Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.
Meg Cabot
#46. One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#47. Sacred actions: gratitude, praying, dancing, hugging, singing, writing, painting, drawing, gardening, jogging, reading, knitting and many more!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#49. I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
Regina Spektor
#50. At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation.
Donella Meadows
#51. I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
Sam Brownback
#53. Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'
Ron Conway
#54. But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.
Margaret Atwood
#55. My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.
Marita Golden
#57. Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience.
Vernor Vinge
#58. 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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#59. Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.
Desiree Linden
#60. If my landlord hadn't been so vehement about the no-pets clause in my lease, I probably would already have at least two cats roaming my apartment. I was considering taking up knitting. Well, no, not the last one, but I did miss having a pet. And the dating situation was becoming dire.
Debra Dunbar
#61. I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#62. 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
#63. Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow
#64. A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#65. Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#66. Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The
Charles Dickens
#67. 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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#68. When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#69. Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
#70. Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.
Debbie Macomber
#71. I was held together by one thread that was black and frayed, and the end of it was tied to Maggie. She had unwittingly pulled on it, loosening the already loose knitting until I was nothing more than a pile of tangled string, completely unraveled.
Ashlan Thomas
#72. The architecture - the mind - is knitting together. It's sentience. Vague sentience. All these years of formulating machines that know something, while the secret is to create machines that don't know something.
Scott Hutchins
#73. The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations. - Karen
Debbie Macomber
#75. There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
Julia Roberts
#76. Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime.
Barbara Bretton
#77. When I see them knit,' Terry said, 'I can almost call them feminine.'
'That doesn't prove anything,' Jeff promptly replied. 'Scotch shepherds knit
always knitting.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#79. Wart draggled off to the tower room, where Merlyn was busy knitting himself a woollen night-cap for the winter. "I cast off two together at every other line," said the magician, "but for some reason it seems to end too sharply. Like an onion. It is the turning of the heel that does one, every time.
T.H. White
#80. The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#81. By 7:28, all the guests had arrived, and there were three empty seats: one for Eve, who had yet to show up, another for John, who would have a seat after he gave his daughter away, and a third that would remain empty, save for the ball of soft white yarn with two silver knitting needles in it.
Debra Anastasia
#82. 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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#83. We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.
Arto Lindsay
#84. Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson
Audrey Niffenegger
#85. Yes, I love September,' agreed Belinda, guilty at having let her thoughts wander from her guest. 'Michaelmas daisies and blackberries and comforting things like fires in the evening again and knitting.
Barbara Pym
#86. I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.
Chris Messina
#88. 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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#89. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled
Charles Dickens
#90. Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.
Anne Macdonald
#92. Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#93. I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
Gerald Durrell
#94. Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment!
Charles Dickens
#95. As he talked, Aphros drew some wicked-looking metal spikes from his belt. Leo was afraid he had said something wrong, but Aphros pulled some seaweed yarn from his pouch and started knitting. "Go on," he urged. "Don't stop.
Rick Riordan
#96. He returned my smile with a half grin. So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#97. And so Charlie Asher ... led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso.
Christopher Moore
#98. I love to knit. There's a comfort to it that I can't entirely explain. The repetition of weaving the yarn around the needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order and I found it in knitting.
Debbie Macomber
#99. I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#100. Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.
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Agatha Christie
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