Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

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

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; …

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are…

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

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 an…

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposi…

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all r…

- Elizabeth Zimmermann

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, suc…

- Elizabeth Zimmermann