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.

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.

he who is greedy is always in want

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

Keep starting until you finish.

I don't know where to place my body. Everyone notices that about me. I'm very restless.