At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Top 10 Best Quotes
“ It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”
“Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, "Oh, I wish I could knit, but I'm just not the kind of person who can sit and waste time like that." How can knitting be wasting time? First, I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. Second, you aren't wasting time if you get a useful or beautiful object at the end of it.I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.”
“SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.”
“ I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.”
“There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.”
“Advice for New Knitters When choosing a pattern, look for ones that have words such as "simple", "basic", and "easy". If you see the words "intriguing", "challenging", or "intricate", look elsewhere. If you happen across a pattern that says "heirloom", slowly put down the pattern and back away."Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief".”
“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.”
“In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments.The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.”
“When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.”
“I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.”
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