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“Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, "Oh, I wish I could knit, but I'm just not the kind of person who can sit and waste time like that." How can knitting be wasting time? First, I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. Second, you aren't wasting time if you get a useful or beautiful object at the end of it.
I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
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“ It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.)
Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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Ailish’s 2025 Year in Books
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