Crafting Community Quotes

Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.

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

Crafting covers so many areas and over the last few years, we have seen a real boom in the U.K. in terms of people adopting craft as a hobby.

Although I was not a crafter before starting the business, I find it relaxing.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

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

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.

We do a lot of crafting at our house. I don't even know how it got started because if you ask me, 'Are you crafty?' I would say, 'No...' but it's something that we just do.

It's true, there are so many talented people who listen to our podcast. There are incredible crafters and artists.

Almost any modern video camera can take stills, so there's always this fresh crop of kids that like making things and moving them by hand. So it's as much our desire to keep it going as what we believe is the public's desire for handmade stuff that really feels handmade, where they aren't being tricked into it being handmade.

I love the way knitting brings people together.

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

I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.

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

I collect craft. It inspires me.

I want to inspire and educate people and just be an Aladdin's cave for the magpie crafters that are already out there.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.