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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.


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#knitting #stitches #time #yarn #meditation

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".


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#death

Five things I'd rather do than swatch for my new project 1. Get a spinal tap. 2. Scrub the bathtub after all three of my daughters have come home from "Sandbox day" at the park. 3. Babysit two-year-old triplets while simultaneously diffusing a bomb. 4. Bathe a cat. 5. KNIT MY NEW PROJECT.


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#home

So this was it. You take a wrong step and you end up wearing yesterday's underwear, sitting on the carpet trying to teach yourself how to knit. And even that doesn't work. She never expected it to be so hard. Life.


Kate Jacobs


#knitting #life #twenty-something #life

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


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#knitting #humor

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.


Edvard Munch


#feel #i #interiors #knitting #living

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.


Stephanie Pearl-MacPhee


#knitting #truth-of-life #yarnharlot #humor

And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.


Anne Bartlett


#knitting #women #love

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

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






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