Stitching Quotes

“She attributed her own fine sewing to the prolonged periods of silence at Meeting; these had made her thoughts level and her hand steady, which was reflected in her even stitching.”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Last Runaway

“Beauty had emerged from her mother’s fingertips, her nimble use of needle and bright-colored thread. Beauty had lain in what sort of stitch could marry two scraps on a quilt and what other stitch mirrored a rose or a thorn or the seeded center of a sunflower.”
― Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

“[God] only undertakes that *the steps* of a good man should be ordered by the Lord. […] Not the whole pattern, but the next stitch in the canvas.”
― F.B. Meyer, The Secret of Guidance

“Tatterfell sews on cunning cuffs made from the scales of pinecones around the edges of frayed sleeves. Small tears in skirts are stitched over with embroidery in the shape of leaves and pomegranates and- on one- a cavorting fox. She has stitched dozens of leather slippers for me. I will be expected to dance so fiercely that I wear through a pair every night.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince