When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white; Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee; Fairies use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do… Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I am very partial to Lucknow Chikankari work. My colors that I love to work with are ivory based colors, to make… — Rhea Pillai Copy Share Image
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
“ NEXT LIFE . My embroidery studio on the main street of Bayeux will be just one part of my Institute of… — Vivian Swift Copy Share Image
Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven… — Jane Johnson Copy Share Image
The fall couture presentations in Paris are usually my favorite moment on the fashion calendar: beautiful weather, a busy rather than manic… — Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
