Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction.
The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
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.
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.
It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.
The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.
The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.
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.
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.
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.
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.