Quotes About Crafting

Remember that you need two socks. How to achieve this feat? Knit both at the same time, and release the idea that they need to be identical!

People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" —Sally Melville

knitters use both hands

will you teach me how to knit?

I do love a good yarn, fiction and fiber. The only thing that equals my joy in knitting is the pleasure of reading!" —Priscilla

Debbie Macomber

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

If more people knitted and crocheted, the world would see fewer wars and a whole lot less road rage.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

I knitted it myself," Andrea said, "in my knitting class." "How wonderful, Andrea!" said Miss Daisy. "A homemade present is so much nicer than something you buy in a store. A.J., what do you say to

If you look at my movies, they're pretty densely packed, such that they not only hold up to a second viewing, they're oftentimes better the second time you watch them. So I've always thought about crafting stories that could hold up to multiple viewings, and so VR obviously fits right into that.

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?... I'll do macrame, punk.

I've been honestly sitting in the living room every day doing little DIY projects. Painting and making stuff and all that stuff. That's been kind of cool. I got to find out I apparently have a passion for that.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

One job of the unconscious is to act as a workshop for rough-shaping ideas; crafting notions as new parts or tools become available; storing observations until something relevant appears in the landscape -- generally soaking, simmering, and incubating ideas. Gradually, while combing through its inventory, it finds bits and pieces that create a pattern. When it slips knowledge of that pattern to the conscious mind, it's a surprise, like a telegram slid under the door.

fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian

Some people think of editing as the physical act of cutting," Hirsch says. "But that's a misconception. The French use the word montage for editing, which means 'to build.' And I think that is a more precise description.

I pick up my knitting and wind the yarn around my fingers so I can finish the row. The needles whisper softly as they slide against each other, as if telling secrets.

I encourage you to consider, just for this moment, your teaching as crafting a sand mandala. You go through your year, a year that took many years and months to prepare for. You create something beautiful and intricate and exquisite to admire. Then, you sweep it away. You drop it into the river of teaching time as a blessing for your future teaching self, for other teachers, and more importantly, all the children who have not yet been taught.

A single pastime carried Olive through her early repatriation: given thread and fabric, she quickly remembered how to sew, and did so in a therapeutic frenzy.

It helps us to create and re-create ourselves, often against harsh odds. So I will be talking here about the crafting of souls.

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

Writing is like knitting. Stitch after stitch, word by word, and before you know it you have a book ... or a jumper!

Last christmas my sister, Geri, gave me a lovely Cloth calendar. It only took me 5 hours to sew in a Doctor's appointment...