Top 100 Quotes About Knitting
#1. Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.
Jan Karon
#2. If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.
Mindy Kaling
#3. If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
Patricia Briggs
#4. There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention
Margaret Atwood
#5. I am to be converted to the joys of knitting,' said Mrs. Ali, smiling at the Major.
'My condolences,' he said.
Helen Simonson
#6. Digital Age Cozy: Cozy mystery can be more than knitting grannies, cats, and cookbooks!
A.E.H. Veenman
#7. Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#8. You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
Henry Beard
#9. Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.
Rachel Hawkins
#10. I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#12. Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#13. Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.
Debbie Macomber
#15. The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
Al Franken
#16. 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
#17. No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still
Charles Dickens
#18. A lady named Maude let me in the back,' he said. 'She's a firecracker, that one. Told me she's knitting trivets as a wild change of pace from scarves. If you're keeping score, that means changing from a rectangle all the way to a square.
Heather Cocks
#19. 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
#20. The Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps
Charles Dickens
#21. his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered
Katherine Mansfield
#22. How very American it was to assume that these unsmiling Chinese would be pleased if one showed a preference for their native implements ... How very American it was to feel somehow guilty unless one struggled over rice noodles and lumps of meat with things that looked like enlarged knitting needles.
Tom Wolfe
#23. Far out, Bobby wrote back. Next thing I know, you'll be knitting socks with Whistler's Mother.
Tom Robbins
#24. hippo. Like something that basks, anyway. Even her knitting is going better than
Margaret Atwood
#25. I pick up my knitting and wind the yarn around my fingers so I can finish the row. The needles whisper softly as they slide against each other, as if telling secrets.
Lynn Austin
#26. Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX.
Charles Dickens
#28. If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#29. It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.
Ella Henderson
#30. Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?'
'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.
J.K. Rowling
#31. 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
#32. Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
Lauren Willig
#33. Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
Simon Campbell
#34. I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.
Chris Matthews
#35. 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
#36. Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
Vita Sackville-West
#37. Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
Charles Dickens
#38. You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.
Daniel Mainwaring
#39. The one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
Charles Dickens
#40. Armed to the teeth?" "He had not even a knitting-needle.
Alexandre Dumas
#41. I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
Sutton Foster
#42. She could feel her mind pulling loose like knitting, the neat stitches of her artificial days unravelling to become one mangled thread.
Frances Hardinge
#43. She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel
Terry Pratchett
#44. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again.
Cheryl Strayed
#45. Pollyanna now, like Mrs. Snow, was knitting wonderful things out of bright colored worsteds that trailed their cheery lengths across the white spread, and made Pollyanna -- like Mrs. Snow -- so glad she had her hands and arms, anyway.
Eleanor H. Porter
#46. She smiles at me as if forced at knifepoint, the kind of smile that comes purely from manners, like the smile you give your grandmother when she gives you the rotten-cabbage-colored sweater she's been knitting.
Anna Banks
#47. Emily wasn't used to having her knitting skills questioned. But
Katie Fforde
#48. After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
Ann Hood
#49. I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.
Glenn McQuaid
#50. There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
Chellie Pingree
#51. Cozy was a fun night by a fireplace with marshmallows. Cozy was a grandmother knitting Christmas sweaters. Cozy was new puppies in a litter. Cozy was not what he had in mind to do in that tent with Tes.
Susannah Scott
#52. It seems the word 'slut' can be applied to any activity that doesn't include knitting, praying, or sitting perfectly still lest any sudden movements be deemed whorish.
Jessica Valenti
#53. 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
#54. So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads.
Charles Dickens
#55. Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don't have calluses on your soul, this isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.
David Eddings
#56. Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances
ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been born a generation earlier
have blogs dedicated to cupcakes or knitting or vintage home decor.
Emily Matchar
#57. Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard
Charles Dickens
#58. It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
Felicity Huffman
#59. Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#60. I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.
Beatrice Lillie
#61. Ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#62. Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did.
Jessica Day George
#63. 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
#64. 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.
Clara Parkes
#65. What are you!? A Disney princess?" Ashley's annoyance powered semi-shout surprised the room. She dropped her knitting to her lap and glared at me, apparently sincerely perturbed by Janie's revelation. "Get over yourself! We all have to fall in love more than once - even if it's with the same person.
Penny Reid
#66. Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed
Louisa May Alcott
#67. From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. 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,
John Milton
#69. There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
Penny Reid
#70. When Javert finally realized that Valjean had something he himself didn't - mercy - did he shrug and find a new obsession, like knitting or Game of Thrones? No. Because without Valjean to hate, he didn't know who he was anymore.
Jodi Picoult
#71. While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.
Charles Simic
#72. People stared more than ever on the train. Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent.
J.K. Rowling
#73. Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years.
Lori Wilde
#74. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled to Life
Charles Dickens
#75. And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That's what knitting groups and sewing groups were for, wasn't it? Commiserating about marriage.
Jane Smiley
#76. 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.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#77. All that was missing ... was everything else?
Ann Hood, the Knitting Circle
Ann Hood
#79. So you vampires living forever," I said. "You must need lot of hobbies to keep from going completely mad. My grandma swears by knitting. Do you knit, Francis?"
"I do not," said Francis.
"Ah," I said. "Do you crochet?" This time he didn't bother to answer.
Justine Larbalestier
#80. Everything. They look good with everything, I decide after a half hour of pinning. Which somehow ended with me pinning knitting patterns. I don't knit, but Pinterest is a bitch that way.
Jana Aston
#81. Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
Ezer Weizman
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. When an old shepherdess in Greece can do it, why do you think I cant? (About knitting a sweater).
C. Hampton Jones
#85. Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#86. [If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!
J.R. Ackerley
#88. If you Ever say Anything about fairies knitting for two gay men again, I will fire you, Then I will knit you a noose, do you hear me?
Craw outburst at Jeremy's comment.
Amy Lane
#89. To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."
[From a letter to George Lyttelton]
Rupert Hart-Davis
#91. Of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days
Charles Dickens
#93. No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
#94. Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
Sylvia Plath
#95. My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.
Linda Goldstein Knowlton
#96. 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
#97. I don't obsess over things that other girls care about, like clothes, movie stars, hair, painting nails, knitting or whatever shit they're into. I just want to eat a bunch of hot wings, sleep, play ball, and maybe, someday, make out with Ty.
Miranda Kenneally
#98. Lady Maria's charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that at that particular
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#99. Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
Charles Bronfman
#100. When you knit, if you get something wrong and keep knitting, then when you discover it, you have to rip out all those rows of stitching to go back and fix it, Life is like that. Sometimes, it has to rip out all the stitches to go back and fix what's wrong.
Lani Diane Rich
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