Sable- A Common Knitting Acronym That Stands

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.

With Great Effort Comes Great Gratification.

I Make A Habit Of Setting Aside Some Time Each Evening To Take Out My Knitting And Work Quietly On It, Happily Relaxing. I Believe That It Prepares Me For Sleep And Washes Away The Cares Of My Day.i Will Consider That Intarsia, Or Fair Isle With Three Or More Colors In A Row, Prepares Nobody For Sleep And Cursing Loudly While Flinging Knitting Around The Living Room Is About As Far Away From Soothing As You Can Get.

The Chances Of Running Out Of Yarn On A Project Are Directly Related To The Difficulty That You Will Have Getting More.

Some Knitters Say That They Buy Yarn With No Project In Mind And Wait Patiently For The Yarn To "speak" To Them. This Reminds Me Of Michelangelo, Who Believed That Every Block Of Stone He Carved Had The Statue Waiting Inside And That All He Did Was Reveal It. I Think I've Had Yarn Speak To Me During The Knitting Process, And I've Definitely Spoken To It. Perhaps I'm Doing It Wrong, Or Maybe My Yarn And I Aren't On Such Good Terms, But It Really Seems To Me That All I Say Is "please" And All It Ever Says Is "no".