Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

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I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

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.

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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

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

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
You know you knit too much when... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

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
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.

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The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you... it's like coming home.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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.

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A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

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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.

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It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

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Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

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I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee