99 Quotes About Knitting

  • Author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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    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.

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  • Author Anne Bartlett
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    To make a lacy texture of holes and fills, turn around and purl. Pearl is also a kind of colour. Colours are all the colours of the rainbow and the colours between the rainbow colours between. I can never get indigo. Year after year, I wait for indigo, but even when the fashion is navy, you never get indigo, the glow, the long slow glow of indigo in the high night sky.

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  • Author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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    A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

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  • Author Rachel Bicego
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    Knitting is the fullest, but we're still taking more registrations. If anything, (register) as soon as possible though.

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  • Author Ron Conway
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    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.

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  • Author Ron Conway
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    Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

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  • Author Sherrilyn Kenyon
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    I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

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