Looing for quotes and phrases all about sewing? In this post I have rounded up all types of stitching related quotes for you to enjoy!
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Inspirational Sewing Quotes
We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
Mahatma Gandhi
Yesterday was my unlucky day. I pricked my right thumb with the blunt end of a big needle.
Anne Frank
Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it — made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.
C.S. Lewis
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by.
Winston S. Churchill
A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.
Dolly Parton
Funny Sewing Quotes
The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.
Mary Kurtz
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy fabric, and that’s pretty close.
Unknown
I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.
Frank Carson
When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.
Unknown
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones
How odd it is that sewing is thought to be ‘women’s work’ when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too.
Gretel Ehrlich
As ye sew, so shall ye rip.
Unknown
In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.
George Carlin
Happiness is a full bobbin and free Saturday.
Unknown
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
I found a quantity of sewing waiting with open arms to embrace me, or rather for me to embrace it, and I could hardly give myself up to “Nature’s sweet restorer,” for the ghosts of out-of-order garments crying for vengeance upon my defenceless head.
Emily Dickinson
I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out – that’ll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
Jo Brand
I hope you found a funny or inspiring sewing quote that you love! If you know of a great one, leave it in the comments below!!
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