A revolution is not a dinner party ... or doing embroidery it cannot be so refined, so leisurely.
Quotes about embroidery (16 Quotes)
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
I really like this new fresh vision about denim, because we are from denim. But the weight we used, it looks like jersey. It's really in the stretch and embroidery, and it's absolutely new and fresh.
Next, I looked up Elizabeth Bishop's poem North Haven, ... The caftan in clear red silk with a richness of eyelet embroidery at outstretched sleeve. Did someone say party
I got to revisit everything I'd done for the last ten years and I remembered that I just loved doing all that handwork, all that embroidery, anything by hand, ... It's really extravagant this season.
When you sew, it takes time, so you don't think the same way as you do in normal life. It's more dreamlike. I think Claire is able to stop time through embroidery and become more mature during its process. And she starts accepting herself, her body and the child through it.
Black is back -- as if it ever goes away -- and richer, boosted by fanciful textures, embroidery and brocade. Butternut, camel and olive tones are similarly decadent, and that burgundy brown -- it's so rich you just want to eat it, ... If they melted Hershey's chocolate, that's what it would look like.
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
The confetti that 30 minutes earlier had exploded from the ceiling in a silvery rain now lay in clumps on the bleachers. Caroline Kennedy had left with her two daughters. Uma Thurman had come and gone. Robert Duffy, the business partner of Marc Jacobs, stood on the littered runway. He remarked that there were things in Mr. Jacobs's show on Monday night that he had first seen him attempt at the start of his career. But 15 or 18 years ago we had no money for beautiful fabrics, for embroidery, ... We had, like, five pairs of shoes for a whole show.
Especially now with the boho influence, the hippie and gypsy looks -- they have Latin roots. Embroidery, embellishment, color, flowers and beading are important to Latinas and to Latin American history.
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
The time I used to spend playing tennis I now use for reading or doing embroidery.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour. . .