91 Quotes by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting

Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, "Oh, I wish I could knit, but I'm just not the kind of person who can sit and waste time like that." How can knitting be wasting time? First, I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. Second, you aren't wasting time if you get a useful or beautiful object at the end of it.I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

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.

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.

it is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.