Quotes About Needlework

I do enjoy sewing.

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame.

My sewing skills are terrible!

You'll never get a marriage proposal if you have to rely on your needlework.

So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time!

Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul.

I'm itching to be stitching!

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

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle - that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise.

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

She seemed happiest when she was alone; she would sit for hours working needlepoint or embroidering tablecloths and napkins, with a tiny indrawn smile on her lips.

In pagan times women were buried with accoutrements that reflected the female role in society. Instead of the tools, weapons and hunting dogs that accompanied men, women took household utensils, implements for needlework, spinning and weaving, jewellery and lapdogs with them on their journey to the next life.

Dainty's clever with a needle, though she seems so rough— don't she? That's just her way. She was what you would say, not brought up, but dragged up. But she is kind at her heart.

Denied outlets for their creative talents in literature and the fine arts, women poured their hidden frustration and suppressed need for expression into the spheres delegated to them by the dominant male society. Needlework has been, in most cultures, a traditional female occupation. Spinning and weaving, sewing and embroidery…" Rachel

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

That's a worry, now you mention it. I'm not one for needlework, and you can only read so many books before your eyesight fails. Someone suggested volunteer work, but that's out of the question. I'm accustomed to being paid, and the idea of giving away my time and my skills is an affront. Braver women than I fought decades for equal compensation in the workplace, so why would I undo their accomplishments?

Embroidery entwined

I suggest you stick to your needlework." "Only if I can stitch your lips shut.

Her life was expected to be as anonymous as the era's needlework.

What was Yolande doing with Mayor Horwoode?" he asked, puzzled by the curious chain of informants who had provided Matilde with the piece of gossip in the first place. Edith and her husband exchanged an amused glance. "Well, she is a prostitute, Matt," said Stanmore dryly. "So, I expect they were talking about needlework.

Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.

What do you like to do?" She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. "Needlework." "Very restful, isn't it?" "Well," said Arya, "not the way I do it.