Knitters Quotes

• Bien practicado, tejer alivia el espíritu atribulado, y tampoco hace daño al espíritu no atribulado.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Hurt, Knitting, Spirit

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• En realidad, todo lo que se necesita para ser un buen tejedor es lana, agujas, manos y una inteligencia ligeramente inferior a la media. Por supuesto, una inteligencia superior, como la tuya y la mía, es una ventaja.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Tejer, Promedio, Manos

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

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Eye, Knitting, Practice

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• Es un hecho poco conocido que, al igual que los pájaros, que siempre pueden encontrar el norte, los tejedores siempre pueden encontrar hilo.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Yarn, Bird

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). "At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much", p.19, Storey Publishing.

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

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Smart, Knitting, Numbers

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Happy Birthday, Average, Two

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.17, Storey Publishing

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

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  World, Normal

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.41, Storey Publishing

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• 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.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Correr,Inspiración, Motivación

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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

  Art, Knitting, Average

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

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Conoce

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• Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

  Edith Sitwell

  Beautiful, Writing, Virginia

  Of Virginia Woolf in a letter to Geoffrey Singleton, 11 July 1955: John Lehmann and Derek Palmer (eds.) 'Selected Letters' (1970)

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• Soy tejedora. Mis proyectos son lo último en "requiere algo de montaje".

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Assembly, Projects

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). "At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much", p.181, Storey Publishing.

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• Los tejedores utilizan el punto para añadir valor al mundo.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Add, Use

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• Portland es un lugar donde puedes encontrar una comunidad como feminista, vegana o activista gorda. Artistas, músicos, tejedores y cineastas pueden encontrar almas afines. Ha resultado ser el lugar perfecto para mí y todos mis amigos punkis.

  Beth Ditto

  Artist, Oregon, Perfect

  "La pequeña gran ciudad más acogedora de América", por Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. 15 de diciembre de 2007.

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• 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, Doctors, Office

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2010). “Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again”, p.8, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• La única diferencia entre una tejedora experimentada y una principiante es que la primera comete errores más graves con mayor rapidez. Atrévete, tejer no tiene consecuencias terribles.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Mistake, Knitting, Differences

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• My mother was good at reading books, making cinnamon biscuits, and coloring in a coloring book. Also she was a good eater of popcorn and knitter of sweaters with my initials right in them. She could sit really still. She knew how to believe in God and sing really loudly. When she sneezed our whole house rocked. My father was a great smoker and driver of vehicles..He could hold a full coffee cup while driving and never spill a drop, even going over bumps. He lost his temper faster than anyone.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Father, Coffee

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• ...la razón número uno por la que los tejedores tejen es porque son tan inteligentes que necesitan tejer para hacer interesantes las cosas aburridas. Los tejedores son tan inteligentes que no toleran el aburrimiento. Se necesita más para atraer y entretener a este tipo de seres humanos, y necesitan una salida o se meten en problemas. "Los tejedores no pueden ver la televisión sin hacer otra cosa. Los tejedores no pueden hacer cola, no pueden esperar sentados en la consulta del médico. Los tejedores necesitan hacer punto para añadir una capa de interés en otras formas menos constructivas.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Clever, Smart, Knitting

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• 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.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Writing, Yarn

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.229, Storey Publishing

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• 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.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Cat, Knitting, Scarves

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.94, Storey Publishing

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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.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Cat, Opportunity, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.120, Storey Publishing

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• Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me of Michelangelo, who believed that every block of stone he carved had the statue waiting inside and that all he did was reveal it. I think I've had yarn speak to me during the knitting process, and I've definitely spoken to it. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, or maybe my yarn and I aren't on such good terms, but it really seems to me that all I say is "please" and all it ever says is "no".

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Block, Thinking, Knitting

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.

  Nell Irvin Pintor

  Eye, Color, Needs

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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