Anything Quote by Beth Ditto

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

— James Weldon Johnson

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

— Louise Bourgeois

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been…

— Luke Evans

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and…

— Alice Walker

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

— Mother Jones

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

— Betsey Johnson

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

— Hector Bellerin

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in…

— Allegra Versace

I moved out of home when I was 15.

— Jewel

I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom…

— Alessandra Torresani

When I was 17, my mum made me work in a cake factory for three days - I hated it.

— Joe Calzaghe

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…

— Tamzin Outhwaite