Lynn Abbey Quotes

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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.

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!'

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

A piece of fabric can get me going.

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

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

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've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

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.

When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it's the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work.

I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

I'm a tech geek.

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.