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Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac QUOTES

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac QUOTES

1 " But unvented - ahh! One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up, one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground. I very much doubt if anything is really new when one works in the prehistoric medium of wool with needles. The products of science and technology may be new, and some of them are quite horrid, but knitting? In knitting there are ancient possibilities; the earth is enriched with the dust of the millions of knitters who have held wool and needles since the beginning of sheep. Seamless sweaters and one-row buttonholes; knitted hems and phoney seams - it is unthinkable that these have, in mankind's history, remained undiscovered and unknitted. One likes to believe that there is memory in the fingers; memory undeveloped, but still alive. "

― , Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac

2 " I know that spinning sets me in a trance; it soothes me and charges my batteries at the same time. When times are tough I sit down to spin during the news-broadcasts, with therapeutic results. "

― , Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac

3 " Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried. "

― , Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac

4 " I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way. "

― , Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac