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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
Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. -- Ellen Glasgow
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. -- Magdalena Neuner
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about. -- Sam Brownback
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
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. -- Tony Curtis
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer. -- Arto Lindsay
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. -- Al Franken
The Friday Night Knitting Club -- Kate Jacobs
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night. -- Glenn McQuaid
Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking. -- Vera Brosgol
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
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
Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years. -- Lori Wilde
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. -- Benjamin Franklin
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. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting. -- Clare Balding
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. -- Sutton Foster
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. -- John Milton
The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.' -- Ron Conway
Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. -- Sufjan Stevens
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell. -- Ann Hood
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day. -- Chris Messina
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel -- Terry Pratchett
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life. -- Ryan Gosling
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there. -- Chellie Pingree
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting. -- Felicity Huffman
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying around the pool reading 'U.S. Weekly.' I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken. -- Meg Cabot
At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation. -- Donella Meadows
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? -- Bill Bryson
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. -- Amanda Seyfried
I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson. -- Audrey Niffenegger
I love the way knitting brings people together. -- Debbie Macomber
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks? -- Ezer Weizman
I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen -- David Eddings
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting. -- Gerald Durrell
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners. -- Lauren Willig
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement -- Agatha Christie
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools. -- Simon Campbell
You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle. -- Daniel Mainwaring
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people. -- Bill Hybels
Ribbing, moss, seed, and garter are all balanced and combine the yin and yang of knitting -- Stephanie Pearl McPhee
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. -- Edith Sitwell
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready. -- Elizabeth Zimmermann
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles. -- Henry Beard
It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing. -- Ella Henderson
I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working. -- Amanda Seyfried
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she'd end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks. -- Patricia Briggs
If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm. -- J. D. Salinger
Marriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting. -- Clare Balding
O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. -- Siegfried Sassoon
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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
Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost -- Cheryl Strayed
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. -- Robert Charles Wilson
If Twinkies grew on trees, as nature intended, then I would like to irrigate your fertile valley. When we make love, bring your own knitting equipment. -- Jarod Kintz
[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw! -- J. R. Ackerley
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. -- Beatrice Lillie
Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. -- Sylvia Plath
"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. -- Rachel Hawkins
Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions. -- Vita Sackville-West
Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say. -- Lewis Carroll
. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything from knitting needles to a spork, into the storm sewers of San Fransciso. -- Christopher Moore
Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes. -- Eric Gurney
My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance. -- Linda Goldstein Knowlton
You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns. -- J. K. Rowling
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . . -- Maimonides
When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held some very sharp knitting needles, Christian reflected that it did. -- Jessica Day George

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