When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.
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.
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.
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.
It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
You don’t knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit.
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn’t a mess; it’s an object of art.
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.
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.
I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.
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.
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It’s good for them.
I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances.
I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.
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.
It’s only knitting and it’s one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.