Top Knitting Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Knitting quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Lauren Willig
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
- Lauren Willig
Collection: Knitting
Image of 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
Collection: Knitting
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It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Collection: Knitting
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SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Collection: Knitting
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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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Elizabeth Zimmermann
Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.
- Elizabeth Zimmermann
Collection: Knitting
Image of Elizabeth Zimmermann
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Elizabeth Zimmermann
Really, handknitting is a dreamy activity, built into many people's thumbs and fingers by genes already there, itching to display their skills and achievement possibilities.
- Elizabeth Zimmermann
Collection: Knitting
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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
- Elizabeth Zimmermann
Collection: Knitting
Image of Beatrice Lillie
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of J. R. Ackerley
[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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Simon Campbell
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
- Simon Campbell
Collection: Knitting
Image of Ron Conway
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Ron Conway
Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'
- Ron Conway
Collection: Knitting
Image of Vera Brosgol
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Rachel Hawkins
"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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Debbie Macomber
I love the way knitting brings people together.
- Debbie Macomber
Collection: Knitting
Image of Regina Spektor
I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
- Regina Spektor
Collection: Knitting
Image of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Julia Roberts
There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.
- Julia Roberts
Collection: Knitting
Image of Patricia Briggs
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Amanda Seyfried
I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.
- Amanda Seyfried
Collection: Knitting
Image of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Collection: Knitting
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Collection: Knitting
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You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Collection: Knitting
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I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Collection: Knitting
Image of Cheryl Strayed
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. 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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Robert Charles Wilson
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Cheryl Strayed
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of Gregory Maguire
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.
- Gregory Maguire
Collection: Knitting
Image of P. G. Wodehouse
Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.
- P. G. Wodehouse
Collection: Knitting
Image of Agatha Christie
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
- Agatha Christie
Collection: Knitting
Image of Lewis Carroll
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
Collection: Knitting
Image of David Eddings
I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen
- David Eddings
Collection: Knitting
Image of Gerald Durrell
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
- Gerald Durrell
Collection: Knitting
Image of Sherrilyn Kenyon
I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Collection: Knitting
Image of Maimonides
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
Collection: Knitting