Quotes About Handmade

I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts.

This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

wheelwright, the person who makes a wooden wheel.

My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.

I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.

In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

I think there can be no replacement for teaching people how to make things by showing them how to stick two pieces of wood together.

I'd love to be a joiner or a wood turner.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

I like to say we can make anything in wood.

For me, shaping and sharpening knives is the perfect mix of a day of metal and woodwork, and seriously scratches my lifelong itch to make something with my own two hands - be it squid-and-veggie ramen or the fiberglass finish on a surfboard.

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

One of the things that gives stop-motion its inherent magic is that you're seeing something imperfect and thus undeniably human - because it's made by human hands.

Naples is famous for its handmade ties so I always buy them there.

Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime.

As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that--that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it.

I love making handmade gifts.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

As I enjoy making knick knacks out of wood, I visit my friend's workshop to craft them.

I happen to love creating handmade ornaments even when I mess up I still have fun.