26 Knitting Quotes for You to Enjoy

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. David A. Bednar

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I fell asleep once while washing dishes. I hallucinated prolifically - like, squirrels knitting whole sweaters! It was like my dreams inserted themselves in my waking life. Emil Ferris

Life Dreams Once Inserted Knitting Like Fell Waking Squirrels Dishes While Sweaters Themselves Asleep Whole Washing

Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home. Magdalena Neuner

Home Me Feeling Only Knitting Also Being Brings

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. Al Franken

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I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. Amanda Seyfried

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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience. Ann Hood

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I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell. Ann Hood

Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother. Charles Bronfman

War Me Age World Mother Will Troops Inspiration Blankets Never Never Forget Instilled Knitting Repair Doing Squares Forget Sent Early Early Age World War World War II Sibling

I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day. Chris Messina

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks? Ezer Weizman

You Man Seen Honey Knitting Ever Socks

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting. Felicity Huffman

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If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown. Frank Lowy

Wonderful Would Having Stuck Had Knitting Career

What I'm doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like 'Game of Thrones.' Get that balance. Krysten Ritter

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I'm an actress, and I write, and I produce stuff. I have a guitar, and I have my knitting stuff. I have a lot of things going on; I love to not ever put all my energy into one thing fully. Krysten Ritter

Love Guitar Energy One Thing Write Put Knitting Stuff Lot Going Produce Fully Actress Ever Thing Things

My Instagram is basically all knitting, my dog, and a little bit of 'The Defenders.' Krysten Ritter

Dog Bit Instagram Knitting Little Little Bit Basically Defenders

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience. Sid Waddell

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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

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

World Knitting Use

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

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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. Sufjan Stevens

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