Ann Packer Quotes

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.

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

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

A piece of fabric can get me going.

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.

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

I actually did an upholstery course a little while ago and have a brand-new sewing machine with my name on it, ready to start tearing apart the soft furnishings in my house.

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

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

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.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

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

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

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

I have to learn to knit.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

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.

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