One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
My family and I are so close, it's important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!
I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.