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

I know how to sew, knit, I'm a great chef, and a good dancer.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

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

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

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

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

I sew my own shoes - I don't trust anyone else to sew the ribbons exactly how I like them.

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

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

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.

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

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

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.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

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

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

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

I was seven years old when my grandmother stated teaching me to sew, and she always encouraged me to be creative.

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

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

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.

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

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 like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.

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

I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

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.

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it.

My mother and grandmother created this secret garden where it was OK for boys to play with dolls, and it was OK for little boys to sew potholders.

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.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.

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.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

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.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.

When there were no kids to play football with in my local park, I would go to my grandma's factory. She used to give me £2 if I cleaned all the threads and scraps off the floor. I even learned how to sew.

Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.

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.

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.

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.

Our parents made a lot of sacrifices because dancing is not the cheapest sport. The dresses are expensive, so my mum learned to sew, and she started a catering company to pay for the lessons and the travel abroad for competitions.

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