Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

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

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

I have knitted before, but I gave that up.

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

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.

I have to learn to knit.

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.

It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

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

...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.

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.

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.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

The art of being kind is all the world needs.

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

The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has a picture of Bart Simpson on it or little suction cups on its feet so you can stick it onto a car window.

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.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it's just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.

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

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

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

I perfected the art of being uninteresting.