Those who sleep under a quilt, sleep under a blanket of love. – Author Unknown

I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses. – Author Unknown

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, The Marble Faun, 1859

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. – Honore de Balzac