After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.
Sandra DallasTags: women crafts quilting quilts sewing
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.
Daniele VarèTags: art needlework sewing needlecraft
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 AtwoodTags: technology innovation sewing
Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?
Elizabeth Lynn CaseyTags: sewing
But dear, you hate to sew.
I will be married soon. Lady Thiel says a woman with needlework in her hands is generally assumed to have no other thoughts in her head and can safely harbor any number of improprieties. That will come in handy, especially when I'm married to a wizard.
Tags: marriage needlework sewing magic-marriage
Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: women needlework sewing
fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.
Treasure StitchesTags: style fashion elegance clothes dresses sewing
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.” Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in
Claire B. ShaefferTags: women-s-liberation pockets women-s-rights sewing women-and-men 1913
I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap of fabric to the story, to the Story of God, that will be retold again and again for all of eternity.
Jerusalem Jackson GreerTags: christianity god faith sewing
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