Bibhu Mohapatra Quotes

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.

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.

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

A piece of fabric can get me going.

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

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.

As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.

My mother is very good at sewing and makes wonderful quilts.

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

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

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

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.

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.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

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

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

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.

I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business.

My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.

Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!

When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.