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Spun from soft merino and wool in pink, cream and red. Plied with a cotton/rayon boucle thread strung with heart beads and cute cherubs, with lace bows throughout! Comes with a free pattern too! Your choice-- we can discuss your choice after you win. :)
DETAILS>>>>>Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In his honor, here are some of my favorite quotes from him:
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. "
~MLK Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. "
~MLK Jr.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. " ~MLK Jr.
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." ~MLK Jr.
SO - TO ENTER, simply post a comment with your favorite quote.
Quotes can be by anyone, please remember to tell who said it!
Share with us and on Sunday Jan. 31st I will enter the number of each comment into a random number generator online. I will post the winner here in the blog as well as emailing the Material Whirled newsletter list! To join, click here (link is at the bottom of every page on the site).
If I post your name here on in the newsletter, contact me and we can work out the fun details!
HOW FUN! A FREE SKEIN OF MATERIAL WHIRLED YARN! a $50 dollar value!(includes free shipping to the continental US)
I plan to do one handspun yarn giveaway per month, with a few fiber and hand dyed yarns giveaways thrown in here and there. So spread the word!
Oh-- and Happy Day!
Okay, here's mine:
ReplyDelete"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."
--Diane Ackerman
I love this quote!! I don't want to just live... I want to live well and to the fullest potential that God gave me.
I would LOVE to win the giveaway!!
here's my current favorite by one of my favorite historians, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: "Well Behaved women seldom make history". Ain't that the truth!
ReplyDeleteThis is a quote that I read in an Ann Lamott book and have been trying to live ever since.
ReplyDelete"You can be right, or you can be kind."
I'll attribute it to Ann Lamott though I might be from someone else. (I'm trying to be kind rather than right!)
Mommy, I love you all the way to outer space!
ReplyDelete~my daughter Joey, when she was 3
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. --Edmund Burke
ReplyDeleteThis really speaks to me because there are so many times when I think I should do something, whether it's organize my fiber stash or offer help after a disaster, and I don't because "what difference will it make?" or "I don't have time to do it all, so I won't do any". I should get this tattooed on my hand as a reminder!
O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
ReplyDelete-- Bob Marley
I'm not religious but I love the heartfelt sincerity and simplicity of this quote.
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
ReplyDelete-Ghandi
Beautiful yarn... and a very cool contest!
two of my most favorite quotes are:
ReplyDelete"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." and "Reach for the moon the worst that can happen you'll fall among the stars."
This yarn is GORGEOUS and I'd be honored to win it
Oh I love the yarn how simply perfect!!! hoping to win of course!!
ReplyDeletemy quote:
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
thanks for the fun adventure!!
Hugs Linda
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." JFK inspired me [a high school student] to set my personal sights on Peace Corps service and changed the course of the rest of my working and now retired life.
ReplyDeletesometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.
ReplyDeleteunknown
The bottom quote is my all time favorite, as it tells me to never give up and the top is my fav of our new president.... what will you all be hitching your wagon to this year?
ReplyDeleteFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~Barack Obama
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
~Emily Dickinson
clumsygrrl on ravelry
My favorite quote, and one that adorns my bumper at all times, is "The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth" - Chief Seattle
ReplyDelete"FAMES OPTIMUM CONDIMENTUM" (Latin)
ReplyDeleteAncient Roman saying...."Hunger is the best seasoning"
I have this on the wall of my kitchen...but it applies to so much more than food!
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
ReplyDeleteNot sure who said it but it means a lot to me when I struggle with projects.
"Son, hold that door for her....Chivalry is NOT DEAD!"
ReplyDelete-my ex-boyfreinds' mom, Barb. :)
"People first, then money, then things."
ReplyDelete--Suze Orman
From Chrissy at knittoday at hotmail dot com
"What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance."
ReplyDelete-- Elizabeth Alexander from the poem she recited at the inauguration.
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. - Robert Brault
ReplyDeleteThere's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home
ReplyDeleteDorothy (of the Wizard of Oz)
Really fun contest.
"To thine own self be true"
ReplyDeleteWilliam Shakespeare.
"If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum."
ReplyDeleteI love this quote for so many reasons. First, if you have younger siblings, or children, you know how they get with banging on things. Second, what a creative way to get revenge! Can't you imagine them loosing sleep with the children banging on the drums? I also like the creativity inherent in the statement.
Lovely lovely yummy yarn! That looks amazing, seriously! Just today we were finishing up our flyers at the spa for v-day specials and were looking through movie quotes. It had refreshed my memory of one i used to use: the geek in sixteen candles: "Would you guys please hurry up, I'm breaking like 30 major laws here. "
ReplyDeleteIt's never too late to be who you might have been.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Eliot - English novelist (1819 -1880)
Gorgeous yarn!
My favorite quote and one that I've always teased my son about as ot older is..
ReplyDeleteInsanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. Sam Levenson
Your yarn is just gorgeous. I love the colors.
Julie
I was sure I entered, but maybe I blew it.
ReplyDeleteMy quote by Polonius in Hamlet by Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true
I've been speaking prose all my life, and didn't even know it!
ReplyDeleteMoliere (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
Love the fun yarn - and my birthday is right around Valentine's day - what a great present that would be!
ReplyDeleteThe pen is mightier than the sword
I had no idea who said it, so went to Wikipedia vis Google, the source of all knowledge and found out it was Edward Bulwer-Lytton in a play about Richelieu. Who knew? And so your contest was also educational!
I oppose old-school chiropractic as a repetitive treatment, but I love this quote by its founder, Palmer:
ReplyDelete"When skill and love work together, expect a masterpiece."
This is as true in medicine as it is in knitting!
Thanks for a fabulous contest - your yarn is scrumptious!
One of my current faves:
ReplyDeleteTo counter the problems we face, we have to see individual freedom as a social committment.
- Amartya Sen
Gorgeous yarn by the way! A what a fun contest, I've had a great time reading everyone's favorite quotes.
"show a little faith there's magic in the night/you ain't a beauty but hey you're alri-ight..."
ReplyDelete--Bruce Springsteen
beautiful yarn, come live with me.
Ok, mine isn't as famous but Still good in my book.
ReplyDelete"Mommy, I wowe you."
-my daughter
Lovely yarn.
That yarn is so cool.
ReplyDeleteI love this quote: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)
"Jump and the net will appear"
ReplyDeleteI forgot who said it.
How fun!
ReplyDelete"The days are long, but the years are short."
I keep this mind often while raising my two small children
This yarn is gorgeous and i have a yearning to win it, so here goes "Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma " by John Fitzgerald...
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect quote regarding yarn, its giver and receiver and inner creativity!! Thank you, steph
Oh what fun yarn.
ReplyDeleteMy quote from Plato
knowledge is the food of the soul.
I love reading these.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quote is from Hillel.
"If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am not for others, what am 'I'? And if not now, when?"
styloidsAs a corporate trainer and avid knitter; the quote I always give each class is:
ReplyDeleteYou've always known what the best of you is...now go out there and show the universe!-marcus buckingham and marla theodoro
Marla Theodoro
From my son at about age 4: "Mommy, this is the best dinner ever, even though it is kinda yucky!"
ReplyDeleteQuote from Hillel:
ReplyDeleteWhat is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow (also translated as: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you)
How much more peaceful and wonderful the world would be if people remembered that.
And I have just the person who would love that as a Valentine's day present! It fab!
So very many interesting quotes:
ReplyDeleteAlbert Einstein said:
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
"A smile confuses an approaching frown"
ReplyDeleteloved reading all the quotes here!
diane
:-)
fraid2fly1@yahoo.com
"If nothing changes, nothing changes." Anon.
ReplyDeleteHave this tattooed on the back of my neck - so my children will remember I have eyes in the back of my head!
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ReplyDeleteThis is on my resume/ata girl book...I am a nurse and live by this ....
ReplyDeleteHow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
dealonnia on ravelry.
"Only From The Heart Can you Touch The Sky" Rumi
ReplyDeleteTo me it means be compassionate.Iam knottyknitter40 on Ravelry and thankyou for having this giveaway.Valentines Day this year is our 5th wedding anniversary andhubby and I are both knitters.Hugs Darcy
Marie
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quote is by Abraham Lincoln:
"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother."
Oh, I have tons of good quotes, so I choose one that I think of when life is a bit messy, and I need something positive....
ReplyDelete"It aint no sin to be glad you're alive"
Bruce Springsteen
Oooo, beautiful skein!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite quote right now, and maybe it's cliche to quote the President, but I think these words are very powerful and true.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. -Barack Obama-
i'm not really religious but i have always appreciated this quote:
ReplyDeleteEcclesiastes 3: 1-8
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Thanks for the contest and the prize is fabulous! i'm not a pink person but i do love what you made here.
"Love does not alter when it alteration finds, or bend with the remover to remove; oh no. it is an ever fixed mark that looks on storms and tempests and is never shaken." Shakespeare, in a sonnet...i used to know which one. The yarn is lovely!
ReplyDeleteI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ReplyDelete-Anais Nin
From the book 'knitting rules' by stephanie pearl-mcphee.
ReplyDelete"Knitting makes boring people interesting and mundane things intriguing. The only other thing that does that has the disadvantage of giving you a hangover instead of a pair of socks."
Carmel
My favorite quote(s) are by Dr. Seuss.
ReplyDelete“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
And when I need a little bit more determination...
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
What beautiful, beautiful handspun yarn...just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteMy fav. quote is in Phil. 4:13 of the Bible "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." This helps me out in so many ways all the time.
I'm knittinwolf on Rav. too!
Sometimes it's better to beg for forgiveness rather than ask for permission.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to give credit, but I have no idea where it came from.
beautiful yarn! here's mine from Marianne Williamson:
ReplyDelete“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
"I realize that each year it has changed and grown until I know that,
ReplyDeletea decade from now, what I might say of it would seem like an echo of
what has been instead of what is."
Juliette gordon low 1925.
Founder of girl socuts this is one I use for all end of year ceremonies. It really helps the girls to feel they have and can continue to acheive.
A couple of quotes here...
ReplyDelete"In war you can only be killed once. In politics, it can happen over and over again."--President Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica
"Sometimes we have to leave people behind so that we can go on, so that we can continue to fight. Sometimes we have to do things, that we never thought we were capable of, if only to show the enemy our will. When you can be this for as long as you have to be, then you're a razor. This war is forcing us all to become razors, because if we don't we don't survive, and then we don't have the luxury of being simply human again."--Admiral Helena Cain Battlestar Galactica
Beautiful handspun!
ReplyDeleteIn the midst of all these wonderfully deep quotes that others have left, here's one that popped into my head:
"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness."
Annie Savoy, in "Bull Durham"
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming swimming swimming," Dory from Finding Nemo
ReplyDeleteI long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
ReplyDeleteHelen Keller
I am so inpsired by this woman
You only have one life to live.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say that I made that one up, but I probably heard it somewhere and adopted it. I love that quote.
~Aster.etsy.com
"What really matters most is what you do with what you have" HG Wells
ReplyDeleteI love the yarn, it is most beautiful.
mommyslittlesweetie@gmail.com
Oh my G-d I love your yarns and this one is just georgous. There are lots of quotes but I really like this one.
ReplyDeleteLife is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming - WOW - What a Ride!
~Unknown
A quote I love about overcoming fear:
ReplyDelete"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
Gorgeous yarn!
My favorite quote:
ReplyDeleteI, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me nave or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. --Anais Nin
Your yarn is amazing!
Here's my quote -
ReplyDeleteKnitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Thnaks for the contest..I'd love to win. Debbie
"The faster I go, the behinder I get."
ReplyDelete--- Ruth Bradford Wells Lowell
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. The Dalai Lama
ReplyDeleteLife's not fair, and we start from there. --Kennedy
ReplyDelete"It's got raisins in it...you like raisins." -"Better Off Dead"
ReplyDeleteRepeated often around here at mealtime. :)
Mine is:
ReplyDeleteNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
I remind myself this every time when I feel that I dont deserve something good or when someone puts me down!
Here's mine
ReplyDeleteI drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. -Frida Kahlo
"Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." Vincent Van Gogh
"The Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, but joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
ReplyDelete-William Butler Yeats
I've loved that one since I read it in the children's book 'A Time To Keep', when I was little.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
ReplyDelete--Eleanor Roosevelt
Here's my fav... just in time for v-day. "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
ReplyDelete"
— Madonna
Can't tell you who came up with it but quote of the month for me is:
ReplyDeleteSleep is just a sympton of caffeine depravation.
Something I seem to be living by just recently. Enjoy:)
here's one from the cold north;
ReplyDelete"Everything is utterley uncertain,
and that's what soothens me"
Too-tiki from the Moomins
"No matter where you go, there you are." ~ Buckaroo Banzai ~
ReplyDeleteYour yarns always look like a fun playground! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHere's a quote that is in line with the wisdom of MLK and continues to be relevant today given our new president and the challenges we face both as a nation and world community...
"Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another.
It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and
live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering
effective communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness,
mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good
health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community
and concern for the health of our society is also involved in
civility." - P.M. Forni
"Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food." --Michael Pollan
ReplyDelete"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen"--Lloyd Dobler, from Say Anything
Where attention goes,
ReplyDeleteenergy flows,
and results show.
If you torture data sufficiently it will confess to just about anything. -F. Menger
ReplyDelete"You're never lost if you don't know where you're going"
ReplyDeleteT Massie
what a great idea!
ReplyDelete"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
Pray as if everything depended on God, Act as if everthing depended on you.
ReplyDelete"Happiness is not a destination, it is a method of life." Burton Hills
ReplyDeleteYou must be the change you wish to see in the world. -gandhi
ReplyDelete"MOM! How do you expect me to control my life when I can't control my hair?"
ReplyDelete--from my (now twenty-two year old) son, at the tender age of five, referring to his glorious Shirley Temple head of curls, after having been reprimanded by his kindergarten teacher for inappropriate behavior. I think that just about sums up the world in a nutshell...
This quote may not be exact, but it's at least close. From John Updike, in a poem about apples, Creation, etc:
ReplyDeleteBut what brought about the Fall of Man/
brought out the best in Paul Cezanne.
If it is to Be, It is up to Me."
ReplyDeletemy Gramma Newman had this taped to her fridge for as long as I remember :)
Words that I ponder as I look at my yarn stash....
ReplyDelete"Life is what happens to you while you're busy makin' other plans."
John Lennon