Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

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

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

I love the way knitting brings people together.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

There is no wrong way to knit. ... We should all agree to stop correcting each other and deal with the more important issue. How wrong crochet is.

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

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

I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.

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

My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

We do a lot of crafting at our house. I don't even know how it got started because if you ask me, 'Are you crafty?' I would say, 'No...' but it's something that we just do.

Yarn, patterns, and needle sizes have come such a long way since your grandmother's afghans. Creatively, there is just so much to get into, so much to play with. It's an amazing way to turn inward and get off your phone.

I don't know how to knit.

My gram taught me to knit when I was little, and then I came across my old knitting tools when I was cleaning out my closets after 'JJ' season one and got right back into it.

When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.

After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!

I collect craft. It inspires me.

As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.

I want to inspire and educate people and just be an Aladdin's cave for the magpie crafters that are already out there.