Quotes About Sewing

You really will reap what you sew.

What's more, many inventions and innovations came to us courtesy of dreams, including the periodic table and the sewing machine.

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from.

A Poncho of Invisibility is not quite as good as a Cloak of Invisibility, but they're cheaper and easier to sew.

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

We were once the ones who were dreaming and loving and screwing. We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

In fact, it's got more punctures than a blind dressmaker's thumb.

Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table

His love for me is like his sewing: various colors and too much thread, the stitching uneven.

Work could be anything that aroused your curiosity: the natural world, music, anthropology, the stars, or even sewing or gardening. When we were little girls we would invent dresses the Queen of Egypt might wear, or have a special garden where we ordered seeds for vegetables or flowers we had never heard of.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.

socks were knit using the five-needles

There was just enough room for her bed, a nightstand and her beloved sewing machine. Mom didn't sew these days, but that machine had been a major part of her life for so many years, she'd never feel at home without it.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

A single pastime carried Olive through her early repatriation: given thread and fabric, she quickly remembered how to sew, and did so in a therapeutic frenzy.

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

Last christmas my sister, Geri, gave me a lovely Cloth calendar. It only took me 5 hours to sew in a Doctor's appointment...

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

Lembra-se do tempo em que eu passava tardes e tardes costurando? - Lembro-me, mãe. Eram tantas filhas, tantas roupas! - A maior parte das vezes, eu só fingia que costurava. - Fingia? Fingia para quê? Os homens não gostam que as mulheres pensem em silêncio. Nascem-lhes nervosas suspeitas. - Enquanto ia costurando, o seu pai não imaginava que eu estava pensando. Minha cabeça viajava por todo o lado.

Arnolphe. Were you not wearied? Agnès. I am never wearied. Arnolphe. What did you do then, these nine or ten days? Agnès. Six shirts, I think, and six nightcaps also.

Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

It's only fabric! Freestyle fabric cutting and sewing is a low-risk endeavor with a strong payoff of personal growth and empower- ment.