I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like. — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“When pockets were first added to women’s clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, “It’s all over with men’s superiority over women.”… — Claire B. Shaeffer Copy Share Image
I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing… — Bjork Copy Share Image
I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me… — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
I think it's a real shame so many schools have taken out the hands-on classes. Art, music, auto mechanics, cooking, sewing, these… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the… — Whitey Herzog Copy Share Image
I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Sewing is getting more mainstream, helped by the BBC show, 'The Great British Sewing Bee,' and we have to look at those… — Sara Davies Copy Share Image
Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get.… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
I'm on the road for up to 11 months a year so have this wardrobe on wheels for my clothes. It's like… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?" "I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me. "What's that lump inside?" "A sock… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I started designing and getting into cutting and sewing, I also started learning how to do patterns and tech packs. From there… — Fred Foster Copy Share Image
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things.… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
“You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He… — T.A. Miles Copy Share Image
As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
“I couldn't sew on a day like this. There's something in the air that gets in the blood and makes a sort… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“But dear, you hate to sew. I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
If women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms, or to nibble at any side of the apple of… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
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