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Quotations can inspire, comfort and uplift us and craft is a wonderful medium for exploiting them as it's so individual and can be tailored to the recipient. Here’s a list of suggestions – poems, prose and some of our favourite sentiments from Handmade projects. They'll look great embroidered or painted on your next work of art, whether it be a quilt, wall-hanging, cushion or some other decorative item. Happy crafting!

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ANGELS

• Joyful hearts hear angels sing
• Angels remind you that you are enough
• All God's angels come to us disguised – James Russell Lowell
• Light fades, stars appear, evening angels gather here
• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly – GK Chesterton
• Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars; the forget-me-knots of the angels – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

ANIMALS AND FAIRYTALES

• Magic happens to those who believe
• There are fairies at the bottom of my garden
• Please don't feed bear – he's stuffed!
• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave – Rainer Maria Rilke
• Dogs come when they're called, cats take a message and get back to you – Warren Eckstein
• Overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses – John Weitz

CRAFT

• Hem your blessings with praise, lest they unravel
• She who dies with the most fabric wins!
• So much to sew, so little time
• Happiness is patching life's pieces together
• A joyful heart is quilted with gladness

 

FAMILY

• Family is the best gift
• Our home is blessed
• A mother's love warms the hearts of her children forever
• Mothers are like buttons ... they keep things together
• Home sweet home
• Daughters are angels without wings
• A mother's love is tied with heartstrings

 

FOOD

• A kitchen is the heart of a home
• No coffee, no workee
• Time for tea
• Let's sit a spell, just you and me, and share a cup of steaming tea. Problems we'll solve – yours, mine and theirs. One cup to wash away our cares.
• Broken heart: do not enter without chocolate
• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand!
• And on the eighth day, God created coffee
• In the great cookie of life friends are chocolate chips

 

FRIENDSHIP

• Together is the nicest place to be
• There is only one you
• Memories are like a patchwork quilt, each section sewn together to be wrapped around us for comfort and warmth in the years to come.
• Friends are kisses blown to us by angels
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend – John Leonard
• My friend shall forever be my friend, and reflect a ray of God to me – Henry David Thoreau
• Friendship carefully tended grows richer with time

 

HAPPINESS

• Peace in my garden
• Warm thoughts are flowers of the heart
• Peace, joy and love
• Anyone who says money can't buy happiness, doesn't know where to shop!
• These things I warmly wish to you – someone to love, some work to do, a bit o' sun, a bit o' cheer; and a guardian angel always near – traditional Irish blessing
• Simplicity is the essence of happiness

 

INSPIRATIONAL

• Sew the seeds of your dreams
• The key to love is in the heart
• May all your weeds be wildflowers
• May God grant you always ... a sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you, faithful friends near you; and whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you – traditional Irish blessing
• Wisdom is sweet to the soul
• You can only see things clearly with your heart; what is essential is invisible to the eye – 
  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Who has time? But then, if we never take time, how can we ever have time? – The Wachowski Brothers (from Matrix Reloaded)