Things I Learned From Knitting

With both parenting and knitting, you have to hang in there while you do the same things, over and over and over, always hoping for the best.

Having a good stash around the house is sort of like having a highly personalized yarn store where you can shop for free.

they dressed themselves today, they’re smart enough to knit, and if their clothes match, they’re smart enough to knit well.

Knitting’s moderating effect on my personality also explains why, occasionally, when I’m a little wound up … people sometimes suggest I go knit for a while.

Every knitter also knows that there’s a 50/50 chance that something will happen to gauge along the way and that our sweater could, for no reason other than the fact that it’s a Tuesday, turn out much larger or smaller than predicted.

Fortunately for bagpipers, but unfortunately for the knitter, most bagpipers have two feet, so a knitter must complete this feat of derring-do twice in order to get a pair.

I used to think I had “too much.” For a while, I even tried going on a yarn diet to try to lose a few pounds of fiber

By exposing ourselves to as many projects as we can, we’re actually strengthening our bond with and relationship to knitting, which is, after all, all that matters.
Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself. I’ve just started another three sweaters.

Whether we like it or not, becoming knitters changes the way we think, feel, process information, and interact with the world around us.