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All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin QUOTES

All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin QUOTES

1 " 100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this is a step in the right direction. "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

2 " As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on. "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

3 " I think my personal minimum score for anything I'm thinking about doing--knitting or not--is about a seven on the interest scale. If something's scoring a five, like a movie, then I need to add at least two points of knitting to do it for me to be able to hang in.

If it's something gripping, like a conversation with a charming and entertaining friend, I may not need to add much knitting at all. If my friend scores a nine, I might only toss in a plain sock, with no patterning or anything, just round and round on autopilot while we visit. (I can only think of one thing I do with another person that really has no room to add any sort of knitting to, but let's not discuss it here.) "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

4 " A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with.

(Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway). "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

5 " We're the only species that invents all of this stuff to make our lives easier-like a car so that we don't need to walk-then invents something else to take the place of it, like running on a treadmill. "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

6 " Did you know that there are $4,000 washing machines? Seriously. If a washer is $4,000 I want it to get the laundry out of my room and bring it back folded after it made me coffee told me it likes my hair. "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

7 " For lack of a better phrase, knitting is knit together into who I am, and coming back to knitting meant coming back to myself, and myself was such a crazy place to be right then that I didn’t want to go there. "

― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee , All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin