... well i thought to look at the Yarn Harlot's Page a Day Calendar, and type them here.
OKAY!!!
They are not mine at all. They are STEPHANIE PEARL-MCPHEE's. Okay? She's the smarty pants, not me.
Anyway - they are goodies:
"Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic."
"It is a well-knwn fact that if you use knitting to manage your stress, you're going to have to choose the project carefully. Small stresses usually demand complex work that can take your mind off your troubles by engaging your intellect. Big stresses, like death, divorce, or medical tragedy, usually call for large, simple, mindless work, since your intellect has already been trashed by what you're going through."(ellen says - TOO TRUE!
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"A whole lot of methods have been explained to me to keep me from running out of "tail" yarn when i do the long-tail cast on. I've resisted learning them because i love the element of surprise. Will i run out? Will i make it? Will i have to start again? Once? Twice? Nine times? I know there are knitters whom this would drive insane, but me - i think of it as one of the only exciting risks i have the nerve to take." (ellen says - 1" per stitch usually does it for all but the bulkiest wool)
"You know you Knit too Much When you have invested money in a yarn storage solution that involves more than one room of your house." (ellen says - Tupperware doesn't count!)
AND MY FAV!
"It has taken me years and years of knitting to learn that with few remarkable exceptions, the rule "crap in, crap out' applies to knitting (as well as children, but that's a story for another day). I have several sweaters that were impeccably knit and would be fantastic, but they are pilling and and looking worn-out after no time because i decided to save a buck on the yarn. Knitting is too slow and too much work to waste time with poor yarn." (ellen says - gospel people. Gospel!)
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