Quotes by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

About Stephanie Pearl-McPhee:

Stephanie Anne Pearl-McPhee is a writer, knitter, IBCLC or International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and doula living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Sweaters need to be imagined, dreamed over.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I am a person who works well under pressure. In fact, I work so well under pressure that at times, I will procrastinate in order to create this pressure.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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 ...

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Author Bio

  • NameStephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornJune 14, 1968