99 Quotes About Knitting
- Author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night
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- Author Sheila McGregor
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Most [Shetland patterns] are fairly small and simple, as textile patterns go. Almost all are symmetrical, with eight smaller parts. As a result, most are geometric rather than representational. ... One last feature, less easy to define but easy enough to recognise ... is the liking for little motifs and for a pattern to be 'finished'.
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- Author Montse Stanley
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The information is now in your hands for you to enjoy in the way that suits you best. Learn it all, or learn a little -- the choice is yours. Have fun.
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- Author Patricia Briggs
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It was discouraging how quickly the beginnings of a sweater turned into a loose pile of yarn.
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- Author Ann Hood
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Maybe knitting is like writing a story-- an act of discovery. But that seems unlikely, given the very precise directions.
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- Author Kate Morton
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One evening, when the household had all retired to bed, the staff gathered by the raging servants'-hall fire. Mr. Hamilton and Mrs. Townsend formed bookends on either side, while Nancy, Katie and I huddled between on dining chairs, squinting in the flickering firelight at the scarves we were dutifully knitting. A cold wind lashed against the windowpanes, and insurgent draughts set Mrs. Townsend's jars of dry goods to quivering on the kitchen shelf.
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- Author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.
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- Author Debbie Macomber
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I love the way knitting brings people together.
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- Author Clara Parkes
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You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?
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