Top 149 Sewing Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.
If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design. — © Tim Gunn
If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.
I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
I do enjoy sewing.
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.
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
What we're always looking for in students is who they are, and I think that's something that happens on the 'Sewing Bee.'
There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. — © Elizabeth Arden
There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.
My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.
Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
I’ve worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
The art of sewing lyrics with the tune is very interesting as a music director.
Yes, I was about seven when I started sewing. We were taught at school, and the first thing I made was a gathered skirt.
Blaming America for the problems of countries whose citizens would rather spend time sewing blankets to cover women's faces than improving the quality of life is utterly ludicrous.
Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.
'Sewing Bee' is making people realize that you can do it yourself.
My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts.
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.
All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.
I'm able to show on YouTube what I'm passionate about, what I love to do and one of those things is sewing my gear.
When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.
My daughter does sewing, needlepoint and very good drawings. My son plays the piano.
I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
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. — © Jo Brand
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.
Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
Robotics has already made significant inroads in electronics assembly, with sewing trades - traditionally many countries' first entry point to the global trading system - likely to come next.
When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
My sewing skills are terrible!
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.
I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. — © Margaret Atwood
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
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.
I tote around that big ol' sewing machine with me everywhere I go.
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.
The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
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.
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
I actually did an upholstery course a little while ago and have a brand-new sewing machine with my name on it, ready to start tearing apart the soft furnishings in my house.
One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
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