Top 30 Sew Quotes

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

That’s really how I ended up making the first flag – I was the guy who could sew it.

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography – Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

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.

I might not the best seamstress, I might not know how to sew, but I know how to make a garment look like a million dollars.

I draw, paint, crochet, sew, embroider – anything productive I can do with my hands while watching Netflix.

Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful… no unnecessary detail.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Yes, but more than being a designer, I’m more of a stylist, because I don’t sew and I don’t sketch, but I’m good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I’ve done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

There are mothers who sew for six months to make a fashion collection – someone’s grandmother, someone’s sister. We come in and get paid to walk for 10 minutes at the end. Whenever I think about that, I realise it’s not about me. I was just the one chosen to represent those women and sell the clothes.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I’d learned to sew because I’m obsessed with ‘Project Runway!’

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don’t, but I like it one way, and I’ve learned to do it that way.

How do you play someone in a movie? How do you do that? It’s impossible – unless you know how. How do you cut somebody open and take out their appendix and sew them back up and watch them get well? That’s impossible – unless you know how.

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn’t bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

I love to sew. But when it’s something that’s being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.

A police uniform is just a piece of clothing sewn by the same tailors who sew your clothes.

I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

I’m a workaholic. I’m a Capricorn, It’s my nature, And I’m convent educated: I sew better than any nanny we’ve ever had.

I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn’t creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I’ll just drape, and I’ll sew as I pin it.

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you’re a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don’t buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it’s still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can’t fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don’t do than do.