Knitting Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Knitting

Knitting Quotes & Sayings

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SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

I am to be converted to the joys of knitting,' said Mrs. Ali, smiling at the Major.
'My condolences,' he said. — Helen Simonson

Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard — Charles Dickens

Everyone has to knit when they're here ... But not every person has to use yarn. — Kate Jacobs

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 — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitting is not enough. — Miles Franklin

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting. — Gerald Durrell

Digital Age Cozy: Cozy mystery can be more than knitting grannies, cats, and cookbooks! — A.E.H. Veenman

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. — Tony Curtis

Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready. — Elizabeth Zimmermann

All knitting is choreography. — Clara Parkes

I want a sword not a knitting needle
-Kalen — David Eddings

It appeared that she was attacking a new knitting hobby with more determination than skill. — Katie Ruggle

Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed — Louisa May Alcott

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. — Siegfried Sassoon

imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. — J.D. Salinger

While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life. — Charles Simic

He returned my smile with a half grin. So what do you blog about? Knitting? Puzzles? Being lonely? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? — Susan Gordon Lydon

You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

worry knitting inside of him. — Dan Chaon

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks. — Patricia Briggs

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. — Lauren Willig

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I love the way knitting brings people together. — Debbie Macomber

But I'm knitting for anarchy. — Delilah S. Dawson

There is no wrong way to knit ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled to Life — Charles Dickens

hippo. Like something that basks, anyway. Even her knitting is going better than — Margaret Atwood

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I'm cashmere, for God's sake," it grumbles. "I deserve better than Rubbermaid. — Clara Parkes

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — Elizabeth Zimmermann

The Friday Night Knitting Club — Kate Jacobs

Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever — Charles Dickens

The doing and the daring are the magic keys to unlocking the treasure chest. — Reba Linker

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. — Sutton Foster

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people. — Bill Hybels

Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul. — Jan Karon

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

All that was missing ... was everything else?
Ann Hood, the Knitting Circle — Ann Hood

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. — Edith Sitwell

Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The — Charles Dickens

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing. — Ella Henderson

No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still — Charles Dickens

Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times. — Anne Macdonald

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. — Edvard Munch

Then the maiden climbed into a tree, and, seating herself in the branches, began to knit. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw! — J.R. Ackerley

As I get older, I just prefer to knit. — Tracey Ullman

Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience. — Vernor Vinge

Your mother is a shifty knitter. — Marion Jensen

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.
-The Blood-Stained Pavement — Agatha Christie

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Easy as knitting kitten-britches, as Momo liked to say. — Stephen King

The one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate. — Charles Dickens

Knitting keeps me from stabbing people. — Jennie Breeden

Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. — Sylvia Plath

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention — Margaret Atwood

The Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps — Charles Dickens

From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him. — Leo Tolstoy

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine — Charles Dickens

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Far out, Bobby wrote back. Next thing I know, you'll be knitting socks with Whistler's Mother. — Tom Robbins

Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled — Charles Dickens

Armed to the teeth?" "He had not even a knitting-needle. — Alexandre Dumas

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations. - Karen — Debbie Macomber

It's much easier than I thought it would be."
Most things in knitting are, really. — Gil McNeil

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair. — Beatrice Lillie

Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. — Benjamin Franklin

Means of dealing with the Three Furies before they drove her crazy or assassinated each other with rolling pin or knitting needle. — Diana Gabaldon

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. — Ellen Glasgow

Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management. — Debbie Macomber

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 — Audrey Niffenegger

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks? — Ezer Weizman

When I ducked out, she was talking to Ana Whitney and some Roarke exec about knitting. The three of them were into it like it was their religion. — J.D. Robb

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles. — Henry Beard

Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX. — Charles Dickens

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. — Daniel Mainwaring

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

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. — Magdalena Neuner

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. — Elizabeth Zimmermann

Ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered — Katherine Mansfield

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools. — Simon Campbell

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained. — Margaret Atwood