Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Yarn. 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 Yarn Quotes And Sayings by 83 Authors including Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee,Elizabeth Zimmermann,Perrey Reeves,Charlotte Bronte,L.m. Montgomery for you to enjoy and share.
Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
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.'
The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is.
Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
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'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
Our life is woven wind.
I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.
The snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.
I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world.
Knitting keeps me from stabbing people.
Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.
I have learned that each and every piece of cloth embodies the spirit, skill, and personal history of an individual weaver. . . . It ties together with an endless thread the emotional life of my people.
I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.
I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
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.
Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.
Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.
The genesis of my coat, made from fine wool, spinning backwards through the looms, onto the body of a lamb, a black sheep a bit apart from the flock, grazing on the side of a hill. A lamb opening its eyes to the clouds that resemble for a moment the woolly backs of his own kind.
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.
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.
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.
imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas
When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone.
Web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
It is a tangled skein, you understand, and I am looking for a loose end.
Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.
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.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket
A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
If you have a tendency to find yourself in MacGyveresque situations, go ahead and choose a synthetic rope to craft with. I don't want you cursing my name as you hang from a cliff by your swiftly fraying Monkey's Fist necklace.
I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
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.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
thin materials, or in conjunction with flat stitch. Twisted knot
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.
But I'm knitting for anarchy.
Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.
If you're so bored, learn to knit. I'm not that good of a hobby."
"If I ever learn to knit, the first thing I'll make is a noose to hang myself with.
It's much easier than I thought it would be."
Most things in knitting are, really.
I was held together by one thread that was black and frayed, and the end of it was tied to Maggie. She had unwittingly pulled on it, loosening the already loose knitting until I was nothing more than a pile of tangled string, completely unraveled.
All knitting is choreography.
Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
You prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
As in, you go ahead and pull on that thread and watch the whole world unravel like a sweater, Ethan Wate.
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.
Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knitting Done XV. The
Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.
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.
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.
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn.
You can weave your life so long
only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued.
Loopy as a crochet convention.
I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.
Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.
I have too much money invested in sweaters.
I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.
One fleece down, one to go.
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.
Only the wool of present will knit the sweater of memories that will keep you warm in the winter of your life.
In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
row of stitches.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.
Apparently she was going to have to stock up on ugly knitwear. *
Cotton is cotton.
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?
I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.
If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.
I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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.
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!
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.
Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
Once spun,
The silken thread of all our aspirations
Remains intact,
It can never be broken.
Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
The scarf is soft
The scarf is blue
The scarf is us
I want to make a sweater out of this week and wrap myself up in it until it falls apart. If
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,
Greek loom weight showing an owl spinning wool. The
As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.
worry knitting inside of him.
The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.
I hate homemade sweaters.
A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!