Quotes About Sewing

You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers.

You'll be sewing all through winter. When the spring thaw comes, they will find your body with a needle still locked tight between your frozen fingers." Arya didn't think it was funny. "I hate needlework!" she said with passion. "It's not fair!

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Sewing is getting more mainstream, helped by the BBC show, 'The Great British Sewing Bee,' and we have to look at those types of things to see how we can use it as an opportunity.

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

yellow frock with puffed sleeves and an empire waist had seemed elegant on the pattern envelope. She didn't care much for the finished product, but having spent too much time tracing the pattern and reinforcing buttonholes, she couldn't just throw it away because of a puckered neckline and an unflattering cut.

I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.

I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play 'The Nanny Called Fran' every night for years. I've seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.

They'd sewn their lives together in the silent way of women unused to conversation.

For a moment, as if the years had been set aside and they were back in his classroom, she had an urge to raise her hand and ask Mr. Thomas if truth was hard and impervious or soft and easily bruised, but instead she reached for the sewing kit and let the small smile that formed on her lips and the thought of raising her hand after all this time serve in place of what might have been an interesting answer.

Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch her father's fine linen. In the main cabin she has installed a sewing-machine. All hand-stitching, and embroidering, and fancy work she does in the deck-chair beside me. She avers that she loves the sea and the atmosphere of sea-life, yet, verily, she has brought her home-things and land-things along with her--even to her pretty china for afternoon tea.

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.

When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook.

I found a quantity of sewing waiting with open arms to embrace me, or rather for me to embrace it, and I could hardly give myself up to "Nature's sweet restorer," for the ghosts of out-of-order garments crying for vengeance upon my defenceless head.

May your bobbin always be full!

I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!

I'm itchin' to be stitchin'!

Sewing forever, housework whenever.

I cannot count my day complete 'Til needle, thread and fabric meet.

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?"

Buttons and patches and the cold wind blowing, The days pass quickly when I am sewing.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?