Quilting Quotes

• A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Quilts, Together

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• Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Art, Quilts, Passion

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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• Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Time, Quilts, Children

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Home, Heart, Accomplishment

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.730, e-artnow

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• Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Passion, Two, Stranger

  Jennifer Chiaverini, Nancy Odom (2002). “Elm Creek Quilts: Quilt Projects Inspired by the Elm Creek Quilts Novels”, p.9, C&T Publishing Inc

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• Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Kindness, Writing, Two

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• People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Quilts, Book, People

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Bees

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