Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Knitting. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Knitting Quotes And Sayings by 77 Authors including Clara Parkes,Debbie Macomber,Gil Mcneil,Tracey Ullman,C. Hampton Jones for you to enjoy and share.
Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.
People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" - Sally Melville,
I love to knit. There's a comfort to it that I can't entirely explain. The repetition of weaving the yarn around the needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order and I found it in knitting.
It's much easier than I thought it would be."
Most things in knitting are, really.
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!
When an old shepherdess in Greece can do it, why do you think I cant? (About knitting a sweater).
Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.
Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.
Everyone has to knit when they're here ... But not every person has to use yarn.
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.
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
Go on home and knit socks, darling,
All knitterly creation stems from one simple element: yarn. It is the baker's flour, the jeweler's gold, the gardener's soil. Yarn is creation, consolation, and chaos all spun together into one perfect ball.
I pick up my knitting and wind the yarn around my fingers so I can finish the row. The needles whisper softly as they slide against each other, as if telling secrets.
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.
It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.
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.
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.
If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.
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.
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.
I don't know if you've ever knit a sweater, but by the end of it, you're like, 'Ugh I can't wear this. I can't stand the color. I'm so tired of it.'
Your mother is a shifty knitter.
I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
I don't just use yarn from a store. I buy old sweaters from consignment shops. The older the better, and unravel them. There are countries of women in this scarf/shawl/blanket. Soon it will be big enough to keep me warm.
Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.
The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.
She was passionate about knitting because it allowed her to reach a state of peacefulness, and she loved to embroider because it let her express her creativity. Both activities were liberating. They allowed her to exist outside of time.
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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.
She's wearing this backpack with yarn coming out of it, so she can knit while she's standing.
I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket
row of stitches.
Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.
Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.
I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
worry knitting inside of him.
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.
You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.
Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness ... the greed, the hate all around us.
I want to knit socks for the soldiers."
"It's not as easy as that," she said, looking at me strangely. "It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.
You could take up knitting," he suggested.
My eyebrows scrunched together. "The Angel of Death is suggesting I adopt knitting as a hobby?"
Warren's shoulders shook with with silent laughter.
There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.
I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.
So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in around a structure yet unbuilt, where they were to sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads.
The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled to Life
I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.
It appeared that she was attacking a new knitting hobby with more determination than skill.
I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.
But I'm knitting for anarchy.
Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.
Embroidery? I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy, strangely, had picked it up really quickly and embroidered a tapestry of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for my last birthday.
You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.
I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.
I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.
Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.
My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'
Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still Knitting XVII. One Night XVIII. Nine Days XIX.
We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch.
I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.
When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.
I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.
To care about weaving, to make weavings, is to be in touch with a long human tradition. We people have woven, first baskets and then cloth, for at least ten thousand years. This book will give you many ways to become connected with that tradition.
I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
Loopy as a crochet convention.
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.
Everything. They look good with everything, I decide after a half hour of pinning. Which somehow ended with me pinning knitting patterns. I don't knit, but Pinterest is a bitch that way.
I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.
I have always loved cashmere and knitwear is the first thing I'm drawn to when shopping - even if I don't need any.
Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long drinks of calm. The rhythm you find is from down inside, rocking cradle, heartbeat, ocean. Waves on a rockless shore.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The
I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.
Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"
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.
In through the front door, Once around the back, Peek through the window, And off jumps Jack. - A RHYME TO TEACH CHILDREN TO KNIT
Nothing is a stronger cultural lightning rod than two needles and a ball of yarn. But
Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed
Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care.
Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn,
It was needlepoint, Mr. Burke. Tapestries are woven, you see, and I find it far more satisfying to stab than to weave.
I'd always felt that one could read a woman's discontent in the amount of embroidery in her sitting room. It gave me a crowded and nervous feeling to sit among so much frantic stitchery.
Instead of embroidering silk, I embroider skin.
The one woman who had stood conspicuous, knitting, still knitted on with the steadfastness of Fate.
I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.
Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Book the First - Recalled
I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.