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I think my personal minimum score for anything I'm thinking about doing--knitting or not--is about a seven on the interest scale. If something's scoring a five, like a movie, then I need to add at least two points of knitting to do it for me to be able to hang in. If it's something gripping, like a conversation with a charming and entertaining friend, I may not need to add much knitting at all. If my friend scores a nine, I might only toss in a plain sock, with no patterning or anything, just round and round on autopilot while we visit. (I can only think of one thing I do with another person that really has no room to add any sort of knitting to, but let's not discuss it here.)


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#movies

But unvented - ahh! One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up, one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground. I very much doubt if anything is really new when one works in the prehistoric medium of wool with needles. The products of science and technology may be new, and some of them are quite horrid, but knitting? In knitting there are ancient possibilities; the earth is enriched with the dust of the millions of knitters who have held wool and needles since the beginning of sheep. Seamless sweaters and one-row buttonholes; knitted hems and phoney seams - it is unthinkable that these have, in mankind's history, remained undiscovered and unknitted. One likes to believe that there is memory in the fingers; memory undeveloped, but still alive.


Elizabeth Zimmermann


#knitting #science

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#knitting #humor

Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson


Audrey Niffenegger


#knitting #sarcasm #smoking #sarcasm

Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family and friends.


Martha Waterman


#family

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club


Kate Jacobs


#georgia #job #knitting #life #passion

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#obsession #obsession

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.


Laurie Halse Anderson


#knitting #eating-disorders

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.


Dorothy Day


#conducive #down #knit #knitting #needles

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?


Ezer Weizman


#honey #knitting #man #seen #socks






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