Fiber Arts Quotes

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn.

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

I always try to help spinners as much as I can wherever I go and play, anywhere in the world.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make you a shawl." She cocked her head. "You knit? Well. That's an unusual accomplishment in a soldier.

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".

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

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.

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

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.

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.