When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting.
I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.
I have knitted before, but I gave that up.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
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.
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.
I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.
The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.
The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.
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.
It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
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.
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.
