35 Sewing Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. John Varvatos

Beautiful Best You Man Construction Sewing Fabrics Look Fits End In The End Suit

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. David A. Bednar

Unwanted Other Beneficial Appropriate Guide Sewing Jobs Variety Facilitate Pursuits Knitting Model Wood Pattern Patterns Uniformity Used Productive Avoid Help Activities Waste Wide Wide Variety

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say. Luke Evans

Myself Me Mother Somebody Seen Picture Clothes Think Nine Ensemble Say Machine Worst Sewing Must Dressed Glad Thrown Had Over Over It Like Looked She Make Matching Been Up Did Stopped Eight Which Shorts Working Ever

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 say I've got my own in-house team as well. Theophilus London

Family You Shopping Own Say Sewing Out Some Guy My Own Could Well Got Go Uniforms Team Ornament Royal Royal Family

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. Alice Walker

Day Me Mother Made College Suitcase Gave Typewriter Machine Sewing Week Maid Had Bought Hours She Did Working Away

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. Nellie Bly

Thoughts World Fate Mind Made Hopeless Sit Busy Months Several Sewing Asylum Over Faint Employ Does Prisoners Patients Confinement Clothing After Ponder Poor Grow

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. Serena Williams

Mom Me Remember Long Sew Sewing How Been Taught

Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into a bed made up with beautiful linen. I love sewing, I love fabrics, and I love sleeping. Twiggy

Life Love Beautiful Great Me Natural Made Sleeping Progression Everyone Pleasures Sewing Fabrics Seemed Like Bed Line Up Getting Loves Natural Progression Designing Sleep

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten. Ben Shahn

People Sewing Table Ten Crowded Around Used Twelve Now

Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way. Beverly Lewis

Love Faith Family Cooking Witness Opportunity Live Way Sewing Out Seeing Baking Well Around Firsthand Tradition Domestic Up Arts Them Farmland Unique Growing Growing Up Amish Enjoyed

The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery. Charlie Puth

Doctor Result Face Sewing Eye Scar Surgery Up Plastic Plastic Surgery

When I was little, and whenever I had to wear a dress while my mother took up the hem or made any alterations, she told me to keep a thread from the dress in my mouth while she was sewing, and that would keep me from getting stuck by the needle. Charlotte Rae

Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing. Cilla Black

Before Live Back Our Sewing Out Dresses Steady Put Road Make Cathy Ready Still Doing Go Friday Friday Night Hang Just Flat Used Show Helping Swing Swinging Night

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. David Lynch

My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write. Derek Walcott

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I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated. Donatella Versace

Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits. Gilbert Baker

First Single Every Once Finally Liberated Background Machine Sewing David David Bowie Like Look Bowie First Thing Because Get Did Mick Jagger Jagger The First Thing Kansas Thing Second

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring. India de Beaufort

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. Jack Horner

Religion Science Machines Sewing More Like Oranges Comparing Apples

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school. Jason Wu

Fashion Culture Experience School Language First Illustration Machine Sewing Vancouver Had Learned Became Lot Western Western Culture Very Trained Happened Which Acquainted English Second

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. John Lasseter

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. Manny Pacquiao

Construction Try Clothes Sold Sewing Jobs Factory Also Make Equivalent Odd Odd Jobs Just Which Cents Worked Flowers

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