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imagine a scarf as an unlimited canvas


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#yarn #imagination

I think my personal minimum score for anything I'm thinking about doing--knitting or not--is about a seven on the interest scale. If something's scoring a five, like a movie, then I need to add at least two points of knitting to do it for me to be able to hang in. If it's something gripping, like a conversation with a charming and entertaining friend, I may not need to add much knitting at all. If my friend scores a nine, I might only toss in a plain sock, with no patterning or anything, just round and round on autopilot while we visit. (I can only think of one thing I do with another person that really has no room to add any sort of knitting to, but let's not discuss it here.)


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#movies

But unvented - ahh! One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up, one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground. I very much doubt if anything is really new when one works in the prehistoric medium of wool with needles. The products of science and technology may be new, and some of them are quite horrid, but knitting? In knitting there are ancient possibilities; the earth is enriched with the dust of the millions of knitters who have held wool and needles since the beginning of sheep. Seamless sweaters and one-row buttonholes; knitted hems and phoney seams - it is unthinkable that these have, in mankind's history, remained undiscovered and unknitted. One likes to believe that there is memory in the fingers; memory undeveloped, but still alive.


Elizabeth Zimmermann


#knitting #science

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


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#knitting #humor

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.


Tony Curtis


#great #human #human condition #knitting #knows

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


#because #brain #feel #french #had

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).


Stephanie Pearl-McPhee


#beauty

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.


Edvard Munch


#feel #i #interiors #knitting #living

...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...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


#knitting #humor

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.


Elizabeth Zimmermann


#knitting #life #humor






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