The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee More Quotes by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee More Quotes From 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 obsessiveknittingwant It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingcatopportunity 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 knittingdifferencesmistake There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingissuesimportant SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee acronymsacquisitionknitting If you were ever dumped after knitting a guy a sweater, consider the possibility that the problem was with the sweater, not you. The recipient probably took one look at the thing, imagined a lifetime of having to pretend to like (and wear) this sweater and others of its like, and saw no choice but to flee into the night Stephanie Pearl-McPhee sweatersknittingnight ...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...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 knittingsmartclever You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit Stephanie Pearl-McPhee patient 100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee buying-somethingstepsyears It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee yarnknittingshopping Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingaverageart I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingmoodtrying 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 knittingtoo-muchlittles 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. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingeyebelieve Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee yarnwritingbelieve I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingfreakchildren A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knittingcoffeeart I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee pressureorderfacts The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee yarnknittingrunning 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 happy-birthdayaveragetwo
