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just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 14
Blogger
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The Yarn Harlot
Pleasure
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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
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As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
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It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
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Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
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I'm a knitter. My projects are the ultimate in 'some assembly required.
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It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.
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The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
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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.
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Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.
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I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.
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The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.
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I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
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When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.
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You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit
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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.
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
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Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
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I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.
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