Philip Treacy Quotes

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

I used to make clothes for my sister's dolls. I couldn't care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

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 had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

Making duck calls is the hardest thing that we make, so there's skill involved, and they're all handmade.

My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

I make hats. I'm on a hat frenzy. I'm on my eighth and I love it.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.