The best part of takeout night is the fortune cookie. You crack it open, read the little slip out loud and decide whether it applies to you. Quilters have their own fortunes, and they are far more accurate: your bobbin will run out mid-seam, a new fabric line will call your name, and someone will ask you to hem their pants. Quilter's Wine Sippers collects our favorite fortunes in bright rainbow lettering on stemless wine sippers with lids. Pick one, read it aloud and see if it comes true.
Fortunes about the road ahead
May Your Bobbin Always Be Full is the kindest blessing one quilter can give another, lettered around a little spool of thread. Sew Far Sew Good reports steady progress with a needle trailing down the S, and Live Life One Stitch at a Time offers the sort of patience every long binding requires. Queen of the Craft Room arrives wearing her crown, and the angles design promises that every point will match. Eventually.
Fortunes about fabric and fortune
Life Is Short Buy the Fabric comes three ways, in sparkle script, on a curling ribbon banner and in bold block print, because some messages deserve to be heard more than once. I Rescue Fabric Trapped in the Quilt Shop explains the situation clearly and adds, in small print, that she is not a hoarder, she is a hero. And one sipper lays out her full legal argument: she was left unsupervised, and the fabric store sign clearly said Open.
Fortunes about love and company
Hello Sweet Cheeks greets you with a tiny machine and a wink. Material Girl sits under a machine framed by two hearts, and Hands Off My Stitch sets a firm boundary in flowing script with a pair of snips. Leave Me Alone fills the silhouette of a machine with stars and a polite request. For the quilter who prefers a picture to a fortune, Threaded Dreams by the Sea swirls a machine, a patterned sun and rolling waves into one round medallion, which we choose to read as a very lucky sign.
For the quilter who always reads the fortune first
These are for the friend who keeps her favorite fortunes taped above the machine, the takeout-night regular at every retreat, and the quilter who believes a little encouragement goes a long way at the end of a long day. Choose the fortune that sounds most like her future. Then try the old game we all played as kids and add three words to the end of every one: in the sewing room. May your bobbin always be full in the sewing room. It works every time.
Written by Jenny. Thanks for reading.
