Quotes About Knitting

When Mary Anne first started knitting, the sound reminded me of soft rain on a cozy night. After awhile, it was like mice skittering on a tile floor. Now I was thinking about skeleton bones rattling in a grave.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers. It's not as easy as that, she said, looking at me strangely. It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit.

Was this the decisive moment of my life? It felt as if the gap that had dogged me all my days was knitting together before my eyes— so that, from this point on, my life would be as coherent and meaningful as my favorite books. At the same time, I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside of the script.

Was this the decisive moment of my life? It felt as if the gap that had dogged me all my days was knitting together before my eyes—so that, from this point on, my life would be as coherent and meaningful as my favorite books. At the same time, I had a powerful sense of having escaped something: of having finally stepped outside the script.

She had taught herself how to knit, and for the mare's scarf - it was green - she had given herself the best grade possible. And ...' 'That's silly!' Micha giggled. 'Well, who is the cliff queen, you or me?' Abel asked. 'It isn't my fault if you're giving yourself grades!

For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

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

I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.

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

I'm turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers." – Sundown

"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

Her needles clicked and flashed triumphantly as her eyes came back from their journeying and fixed themselves upon her work for that one knitting event for which their regard was necessary- the turning of the heel.

I've always been creative - I baked, knitted and crocheted with my mum and grandma.

I'm obsessed with wool.

My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Please don't take me in the middle of the sweater.' And as soon as she finished knitting a sweater, and it was blocked and put together, she already had the wool to start the next sweater so that nothing bad would happen.

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. PSALM 139:13-14,

Knitting helps get both sides of the brain going, has a calming effect, and helps students in problem solving.

Sally Goldenbaum

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.

He'd refused to sack Honey Monster Shauna after she'd mistakenly included an extra zero in Gaelic Knitting and people ended up knitting christening shawls that were seventeen feet long instead of three.

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

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.