Top 153 Knitting Quotes & Sayings

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

...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.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

I love the way knitting brings people together.

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

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.

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

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

When I moved back to New York, I saw a lot of girls knitting on the subway, and it had a bit of a comeback.

People just need to go back to the ancient crafts. We should teach people to do whittling at school, or knitting.

I do wish you wouldn't argue with me when I'm knitting.

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious.

Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me.

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

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.

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

I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

My Instagram is basically all knitting, my dog, and a little bit of 'The Defenders.'

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

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

Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.

[If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

I went to performing arts camp, secretly taking classes - I got the lead in the musical, and my dad was like, 'Wait, I thought you were going here for music and knitting'.

Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

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

I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson.

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

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

You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

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.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

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

Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .