99 Quotes About Knitting

If a person knits as you speak of the past, you can become mesmerized. As the yarn unwinds from its skein your memories naturally unfold to their full length.

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.

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

The scarf could go on and on and on and on, and it could be the harlot-red banner of shame that wrapped him up and kept him warm when the nights grew lonely and cold.

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

This was the time when Mother usually did her knitting. With ten children in the family, she didn't have time to knit more than one pair of mittens a year for each of them, so she gave the mittens to them at Christmas. The children never asked who the mittens were for, even though they watched each one grow. Some had stripes of bright color and some had little patterns, and of course some were big and some were small.

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

Knitting is the perfect metaphor for life. You might spend months knitting something, but you could probably unravel the whole thing in less than an hour.

   'What are you making?' he'd asked her one time out of curiosity that could no longer be borne in silence.   'You'll see,' she replied mysteriously.   He consulted his father. 'Pa, what's she making?'   'Mind your own business.'   'I was only asking.'   'Don't ask personal questions.'   'Rose, what's she knitting?' he asked his sister.   'Wool,' Belle answered.   'Belle, I know that. But what's she doing with it?'   'Knitting,' said Esther.