Best Quilt Quotes

#1. window to check the weather because I'd hung my best quilt

Carrie Anne Noble

#2. Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God.

Holly Jacobs

#3. You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

Robin Sloan

#4. You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.

Whitney Otto

#5. They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)

Susan Glaspell

#6. Lying in a featherbed will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

Dante Alighieri

#7. To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps
To some reader a latticework of regrets ...

John Ashbery

#8. We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.

Mike Bond

#9. When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

Faith Ringgold

#10. I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

William Manchester

#11. There was no bad luck in the world but whitepeople. 'They don't know when to stop,' she said, and returned to her bed, pulled up the quilt and left them to hold that thought forever.

Toni Morrison

#12. My stories wrap around me like a cozy quilt, and sometimes I long to pull that quilt over my head and pin the blanket shut, allowing me to immerse myself in the world vivid in my mind.

Nancy Moser

#13. The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

Elizabeth Barton

#14. It isn't the shape of the designs or the points or the batting, it's the love you sew into your quilt that is your true legacy.

Lisa Boyer

#15. I am not as strong as my words pretend to be. Not
as quiet as these caesuras promise. This heart is a patchwork quilt of people
that leave different shades of blue inside of me.

Shinji Moon

#16. To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.

Natalie