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.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I’m a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in ’some assembly required.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren’t just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

With great effort comes great gratification.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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.

— 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

The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

— 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

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better – at least for the purposes of social discourse.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I do know that there isn’t ever going to be a time when there aren’t any knitters.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we’re not encountering a celebrity.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what’s inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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