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

I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'

We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

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

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

I do needlepoint from kits. I give them as gifts to people in the form of cushion covers and they are often speechless with horror.

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

My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

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