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.