Quotes About Crafting

Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets.

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

Stitch your stress away.

I keep my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them.

Quilters know all the angles.

I scrapbook therefore I am - broke.

And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds a stage set and painstakingly hides all the struts and wires and nail holes, then stands back and hopes whoever might come to see it will believe.

A novel is a container for 80,000 to 90,000 words and you might see it as a jelly mould. You pour them all in and hope they'll set.

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.

I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg once and couldn't really move around, I started playing around with it... putting the scent inside and dried flowers, and that's it.

I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.

words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

Whether it's 'Fish' or 'Annabel Scheme' or 'The Truth About the East Wind,' I often find myself crafting custom containers to hold the kind of content I want to create.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

Yes, I was about seven when I started sewing. We were taught at school, and the first thing I made was a gathered skirt.

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and true shape and form!

I'd like to learn how to needlepoint.

I want to knit socks for the soldiers. It's not as easy as that, she said, looking at me strangely. It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.

But if your story is about the inner workings of competitive quilting, you'd better make it short and extra witty. People drift off when you stop talking about stuff that isn't, well, them. The

Me and my girlfriend make all my costumes here ourselves at home.

I used to unwind the wire tags that labeled the crates of vegetables and took the fine brass and steel wires and braided and twisted them together to make bracelets, rings, and figures.

I had the chance to witness the evolution of the Nuclear Deal into Dr. Singh's legacy as he assiduously, piece by piece, crafted the Indo-US nuclear deal against all odds, including risking his government.