99 Quotes About Knitting

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.

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

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.

Sacred actions: gratitude, praying, dancing, hugging, singing, writing, painting, drawing, gardening, jogging, reading, knitting and many more!

I'm reasonably sure that Calvin Klein does not knit.

In life, as in knitting, don't leave loose ends. Take the time to thank the people who matter in your life.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers.""It's not as easy as that," she said, looking at me strangely. "It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.