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

" All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio. "

" A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. "

David A. Bednar

" Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. "

" I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. "

" I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night. "

" I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary. "

" 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. "

India de Beaufort

" I preferred sewing to bossing little children. "

" 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. "

Bibhu Mohapatra

" It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten. "

" I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives. "

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

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

" One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb. "

" The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery. "

" When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. "

" When I was little, and whenever I had to wear a dress while my mother took up the hem or made any alterations, she told me to keep a thread from the dress in my mouth while she was sewing, and that would keep me from getting stuck by the needle. "

" Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces. "

Sandra Cisneros

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