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

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.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

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

Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

Feminine is never out of style

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.

Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.