Needlework Quotes

• Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Home, Heart, Accomplishment

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.730, e-artnow

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• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Stitches, Thread, Draws

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• The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

  Mason Cooley

  Cutting, Machines, Path

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• Todo el mundo me dice que le encantaría tejer, pero que no tiene tiempo. Miro la vida de la gente y veo oportunidades y tiempo para tejer por todas partes. ¿El tiempo que pasas en el autobús cada día? Eso es un par de calcetines en un mes. ¿Esperando en la cola? Mitones. ¿Viendo la tele? Cubos de tiempo perdido que podría ser un exquisito chal de encaje.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Opportunity, Knitting, Waiting In Line

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• There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mean, Brain, Information

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• For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Heart, People, Wool

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• Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Knitting, Tea

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• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Hands, Opera, Knees

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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 Sr.

  Time, Quilts, Children

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Una gran cantidad de simpatía humana corre a lo largo de la línea eléctrica de la costura, extendiéndose desde el trono hasta la silla de mimbre de la humilde costurera.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Correr, Humilde, Tronos

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• Las cadenas no mantienen unido un matrimonio. Son hilos, cientos de pequeños hilos, los que cosen a las personas a lo largo de los años.

  Simone Signoret

  Amor, Aniversario, Matrimonio

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• What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I do it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Way, Toes, Well Said

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1711, Bantam

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• I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

  Lillian Hellman

  Embroidery, Fancy, Wanted

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• Bien practicado, tejer alivia el espíritu atribulado, y tampoco hace daño al espíritu no atribulado.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Hurt, Knitting, Spirit

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• My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

  Betsy Byars

  Animal, Hobbies, Quiet

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• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Quilts, Women, Moving

  Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

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• Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.

  Lucy Larcom

  Niños, Hogar, Hombres

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• The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beauty, Girl, Sweet

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• Odio a la mujer que se ofrece porque debe hacerlo, y fría y seca piensa en su costura al hacer el amor.

  Ovid

  Hate, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.328, Delphi Classics

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• For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.

  Linda Colley

  Military, War, Home

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• ¡Oh, qué enmarañada red tejemos cuando primero practicamos el engaño!

  Walter Scott

  Sabiduría, Verdad, Mentira

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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• En realidad, todo lo que se necesita para ser un buen tejedor es lana, agujas, manos y una inteligencia ligeramente inferior a la media. Por supuesto, una inteligencia superior, como la tuya y la mía, es una ventaja.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Tejer, Promedio, Manos

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• Tejer es muy propicio para la reflexión. Es agradable tejer un rato, dejar las agujas, escribir un rato y luego retomar el calcetín.

  Dorothy Day

  Nice, Writing, Knitting

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• It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Husband, Thinking, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.26, Storey Publishing

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• I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly taking down the framed examples of fine embroideries, samplers, and needlework from teh hallway wall and tucking them under her arm. "Mistress! Come on! You've got to leave!" She calmly turns and faces me. "Why?" she asks. "The British are coming?" "Only one, Mistress," I say

  L.A. Meyer

  Wall, Smell, Mistress

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