Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old sewing quotes, sewing sayings, and sewing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
I find sewing by hand extremely rewarding. The pleasure of both making and wearing beautifully constructed garments far exceeds the time and effort required to complete them.Claire B. Schaeffer
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There is not the slightest reason why the spinning wheel may not co-exist with the spinning mill even as the domestic kitchen co-exists with the hotels. Indeed, typewriters and sewing machines may go, but the needle and the reed pen will survive.Mahatma Gandhi
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Men build bridges and thow railroads across deserts, yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.Heywood Broun
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A fair little girl sat under a tree, / Sewing as long as her eyes could see; / She smoothed her work, and folded it right, / And said, 'Dear work, good night, good night.'Jo Petty
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When I was a little girl, you used to learn to sew all holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.Vivienne Westwood
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Fame is like a crop of Canada thistles, very easy to sew but hard to reap.Josh Billings
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The sewing machine sews what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.Anonymous
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A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.George Bernard Shaw
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Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Sew much fabric, sew little time.Anonymous
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If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.Tim Gunn
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Sewing mends the soul.Anonymous
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Stitch your stress away.Anonymous
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Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.Anonymous
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Sewing forever, housework whenever.Anonymous
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She sewed pants, shirts, and jackets in the style of the trends she could not afford, and that's about what a lot of us think of when we think about sewing: cute clothes. But Audrey knew more, something many of us forget: the strength of the stitch.Victoria Loustalot
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Couture sewing for the home sewer means being able to build into wonderful fashions comfort and fit, bringing with it confidence, self-assurance and security in self.Patricia Houser
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The joy of stitching is knowing that no one else in the world has the same outfit as you.Tilly Walnes
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The joy of stitching is taking pleasure in the experience of making something with your own hands.Tilly Walnes
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Custom tailoring was once the only technique for creating a professionally tailored garment, but now the machine and fusible methods are natural choices when faster, easier construction is desired.Editors of Creative Fashion International
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Sewing is not always easy, in fact, sewing can quite often be hard and frustrating.Assembil Books
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The challenges are part of the reason why it is so rewarding to sew a garment and be able to say 'I made that.'Assembil Books
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All day long you sit and sew, / Stitch life down for fear it grow, / Stitch life down for fear we guess / At the hidden ugliness.Dame Edith Luisa Sitwell
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God love her! how it cheered me then / To see her there so brave and pretty; / So she with needle, I with pen, / We slaved and sang above the city. / And as across my streams of ink / I watched her from a poet's distance, / She stitched and sang . . . I scarcely think / She was aware of my existence.Robert William Service
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I go to the shop every morning; / I work with my needle and thread; / Silk, satin and velvet adorning, / Then luncheon on coffee and bread. / Then sewing and sewing till seven; / Or else, if the order I get, / I toil and I toil till eleven -- / And such is the day of Babette.Robert William Service
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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
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Sewing small pieces together gives me a peaceful heart and a quilt to wrap you with, my love.Benita Skinner
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You can sew your own curtain to remain hidden from the dark side of the world.Munia Khan