Quotes About Crafting

After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

I joke that DIY is my therapy, but it really is, it's my way of relaxing.

I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

We use nearly 5 thousand different data points about you to craft and target a message. The data points are not just a representative model of you. The data points are about you, specifically.

What you call fate is just a life situation you have created for yourself unconsciously. Your destiny is what you have crafted in unawareness. If you become a hundred percent conscious, your destiny becomes a conscious creation.

But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

Time is clay. Go make something.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.

churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer

And i had turned into a crochet fiend. My poor mother was the unfortunate recipient of my early "creations." Brave, devoted person that she was, she thought they were pure genius.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

The major gripe I heard was from people who made beautiful cards but couldn't find envelopes to fit them. I realised that if I could provide a product that would make envelopes in any size and out of any paper, I could hit the jackpot.

My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

I've always been creative - I baked, knitted and crocheted with my mum and grandma.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.

Oh, mother," said Maggie, in a vehemently cross tone, "I don't want to do my patchwork." "What! not your pretty patchwork, to make a counterpane for your aunt Glegg?" "It's foolish work," said Maggie, with a toss of her mane,–"tearing things to pieces to sew 'em together again.

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

I'm obsessed with wool.

I'm good at throwing fabric on myself!