“Fabric doesn’t make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.”
― Treasure Stitches

“I couldn’t sew on a day like this. There’s something in the air that gets in the blood and makes a sort of glory in my soul. My fingers would twitch and I’d sew a crooked seam. So it’s ho for the park and the pines.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of The Island

“Isn’t it curious how in so many of our pastimes and hobbies we play at supplying one or another of our fundamentally creauturely needs—for food, shelter, even clothing?”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.” -George Eliot