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

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

Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.

You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit

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.

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

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.