On my sewing lists, we get lots of requests for ideas for Clever Sayings to Embroidery on Projects, so this chart is a place to come for those ideas. You are all invited to send me your favorites, and I will add them to provide a ready reference when you are trying to think of a fun gift or quick idea. New ones are designated in each category when I update this list. Hope this helps.

CATEGORY	SAYING	SUGGESTED DESIGN
Graduation	The Tassel is Worth the Hassle	Diploma, graduate hat
Grandma or pa	Grandmas are just antique little girls Grandpas are just antique little boys	Antique doll or Antique tractor
Grandma or pa	Want a Hug? Call 1-800-Grandma (Grandpa)	Flower Border, Teddy Bear Plain Border, Telephone
Grandma	A grandmother's love is always in bloom.	Bouquet of flowers with grandkids names around it
Grandma	A mother holds her children's hands for awhile. . . . . their hearts forever.	Handprints in one corner..heart in opposite corner
Grandma	Gramma makes the boo-boo all better	Put on boo-boo bags
Grandma/pa	I'm the Twinkle in my grandma's (pa's) eye	Stars, child
Grandma	Seasoned Grits-Grandmas raised in the South	G.R.I.T.S
Grandma	Groovy Grandma	Your Choice
Grandma	Grandma ROCKS!	Rocking Chair or Dancing Grannie
Grandma/pa	OK, That's It! I'm calling Grandma (pa)	Phone, Child
Grandma/pa	I'm never in trouble when I'm with Grandpa(ma)  OR Grandpa(ma) said I could	Child
Grandma/pa	Grandma (mom, dad, grandpa...)  says when God made me He was just showing off	Child
Grandma/pa	These are a few of my favorite things	Designs with names of children, grandchildren, pets
Christmas	Christmas ain't over 'til the fat angel sings	Chubby-cheeked angel
Christmas	It's too late to be good!	Christmas Design
Christmas	Be Naughty-Save Santa a Trip	Santa in Sleigh
Christmas/Winter	Cold Twigs, Warm Heart	Snowman
Halloween	I AM the Treat!	Witch on Broom
Fun	Be Kind ...I Have A Teenager	Your choice
Fun	I wish the buck stopped here; I sure could use a few...	Dollar Bills
Fun	Kids in the back seat cause accidents.  Accidents in the back seat cause...kids.	Car
Fun	When I'm finally holding all the cards, why does everyone decide to play chess?	Card Hand
Fun	Only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom.	Your choice
Fun	It's not hard to meet expenses... they're everywhere.	Your choice
Fun	Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine!	Coins
Fun	It's hard to be nostolgic when you can't remember anything!	Question Mark or ???
Fun	I think I have Furniture Disease...My chest is falling into my drawers!	Definitely Your Choice
Fun	Got Cookies??	Cow
Fun	OK, Who Stopped Payment on my Reality Check?	Check, Your Choice
Fun	Ewes not Fat, Ewes Fluffy	Sheep
Fun	'Cause I'm the Mother, That's Why	Your Choice
Fun	If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!	Your Choice
Fun	Jingle All the Way	Slot Machine
Fun	You can have it right, or you can have it now, but you can't have it right now.	Your Choice
Fun	Baroque (adj)-When you are out of Monet	Book, Money
Fun	Life is Too Important to Take Seriously	Happy Face
Fun	For Peace of Mind, Resign as General Manager of the Universe	Celestial
Fun	To let a fool kiss you is bad...To let a kiss fool you is Worse	Your Choice
Fun	Housework Makes you Ugly	Viking Card 19 Face
Fun	Old Doctors Never Die-They Just Lose Their Patience	Medical Design
Fun	Old RC Flyers Never Die-They Just Take a Nosedive	Your Choice
Fun	What's Up Duck?	Ducks
Fun	Person's Name followed by --Deer	Deer Head
Fun	THE LAWN RANGER	Lawn Mower
Fun	The Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste	Watermelon
Fun	I Used to be Snow White, But I Drifted	Snow White
Fun	Your Karma Ran Over My Dogma	Dog? Car? You decide!
Fun	Speak softly and carry a cellular phone.	Car /CarPhone
Fun	I'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES, but nobody wants it	Your choice
Fun	When the Going Gets Rough, You are Obviously in the Wrong Place	Your Choice
Fun	If at First Voux Don't Succeed, BUY, BUY AGAIN	Shopper who favors Miss Piggy
Fun	Love Means Never Having to Say "What was your name again?	Hearts, Man/Woman
Fun	I Just Wish My Mouth Had a Backspace Key!	Face with Big Mouth
Fun	MEN need signs....Women work ALL the time!	Men At Work Sign
Fun	I'm not aging, I just need re-potting.	Flower Pot
Fun	Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.	Question Marks or Friends Talking
Fun	By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb the fence!	Picket Fence
Fun	Every time I get the urge to exercise, I lie down till the feeling passes	Person lying down
Fun	Discover wildlife! Have kids!	Kids or Wild Animals
Fun	Take my advice. I'm not using it!	Your choice
Fun	I love to give homemade gifts... umm, which one of the kids would you like?	Stick Kids?
Fun	I don't repeat gossip, so listen closely the first time!	Girls Talking, Ear
Fun	Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.	Your choice
Fun	The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.	Your choice
Fun	I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.	Your choice
Fun	Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.	Your choice
Fun	I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.	Your choice
Fun	I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.	Your choice
Fun	What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?	Your choice
Fun	I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.	Your choice
Fun	I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.	Your choice
Fun	I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.	Your choice
Fun	It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.	Your choice
Fun	Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.	Your choice
Fun	No, my powers can only be used for good.	Your choice
Fun	How about never? Is never good for you?	Your choice
Fun	I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.	Angel
Fun	You sound reasonable ... Time to up my medication.	Your choice
Fun	I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.	Your choice
Fun	I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message ...	Telephone
Fun	I don't work here. I'm a consultant.	Your choice
Fun	Who me? I just wander from room to room.	Your choice
Fun	My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!	Your choice
Fun	It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.	Cell Phone
Fun	At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.	Your choice
Fun	You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.	Your choice
Fun	I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.	Your choice
Fun	Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.	Your choice
Fun	If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk.	Car, Bike
Fun	God bless you and grant you twice what you wish me!	Your choice
Fun	Meddle ye not with dragons.. For thou art crunchy And good with catsup!	Dragon(s)
Fun	POLICE STATION TOILET STOLEN . . . Cops have nothing to go on	Cop with question mark or toilet
Fun	If it's not one thing...it's your mother!	Mom, Mirror
Fun	Senility is when you can hide your own easter eggs	Easter Eggs
Fun	Boring women have immaculate homes	Broom
Fun	If you want a hot breakfast, set fire to your corn flakes	Flames - (cute fridge magnet)
Fun	"Eat, drink, and remarry"	Wedding ring (with a 5mm clear diamond  swarovski crystal! (also a cute fridge magnet)
Friends	A Friend May Well be Reckoned a Masterpiece of Nature	Flowers, Birds, Nature
Friends	It is Chance that Made us Co-workers (or any word) But Hearts that Made us Friends.	Hearts, Flowers, Butterflies
Friends	U R Beary Special (Add name, if desired)	Teddy Bear
Friends	Life began in a Garden	Flower Garden
Friends	Friends are the flowers in life's garden	Flowers
Friends	May all your weeds be wildflowers	Flower Garden
Friends	When Life Hands you Lemons, Make Lemonade	Lemons, Lemonade Stand
Friends	A Friend's House is Never Far	House with Pathway
Friends	Friendship is the wine of life	Wine Glass, Flowers, Hearts
Towels, Napkins, etc.	Tea for Two-One Lump or Two-Coffee, Tea or Me-I'm a Little Teapot-Tea Time-Spot of Tea	Teapots or Teacups
Towels, Napkins, etc.	Hot Toast Makes the Butter-fly	Butterfly Design on a Toaster Cover
Food	Pardon me, do you have any cheap yellow mustard?	Hamburger, hotdog
Food	WARNING: I have PMS and I'm All Out of Chocolate!	Lady screaming, hair on end, Stressed Stick Figure
Food	Hand over the Chocolate and no one Gets Hurt	Revolver
Food	Hot Stuff	Chili Peppers
Food	Road Kill Grill	Splat
Men	Wish You were Hair	For a ball cap
Men	Still Plays with Cars	Cars, trucks
Men	When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Use Duct Tape	Tape, tools
Men	If a woman can't find you handsome, let her find you handy	Tools
Men	Hunters will do anything for a buck.	Hunting, Buck
Men	Head Carver or Head Chef	Chef Design between the two words and his name on apron straps
Men	Man of Many Vises	Tools
Men	He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead	Your choice
Women	I don't have PMS. There are just certain days *everyone* is a jerk!	Your Choice
Women	I have an ATTITUDE... and know how to use it!	Your Choice
Women	Real women don't have hot flashes...they have power surges	Your Choice
Women	Ask not what your Mother can do for you...Ask what you can do for your Mother	Your Choice
Women	Hunting (or other sport) Widow	Appropiate Sport Design
Women	I have PMS and a gun--any questions?	Revolver, stressed woman
Women	GRITS "Girls Raised In The South"	GRITS
Women	If You Expect Breakfast in Bed, Go Sleep in the Kitchen	Your Choice
Women	Mirror Mirror on the Wall, I've become my mother after all!	Flowers or Mirror
Women	A waist is a terrible thing to mind	Dieter
Women	My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn't!
Fishing	Are we Fishing Yet?	Bass Jumping
Fishing	My Rod and My Reel, they Comfort Me. St. Pete: 12 lb Test	Rod and Reel, Person fishing
Fishing	Women Want Me, Fish Fear Me	Fish Design
Fishing	To Fish or Not to Fish...What a Stupid Question	Fish Design
Fishing	Give a Man a Fish and He'll Eat for a Day. Teach a Man to Fish, And He'll Sit in a Boat and Drink Beer All Day	Fish, Boat, Beer
Fishing	Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy	Person fishing
Computer	C:/DOS, C:/DOS/RUN, RUN/DOS/RUN	Computer
Computer	When all Else Fails, Manipulate the Data	Computer
Computer	To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.	Computer
Computer	Home is where you hang your @	Home, Mail
Computer	The E-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.	Mail, Spider
Computer	Great groups from little icons grow.	Your choice
Computer	You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.	Mouse, Computer
Computer	C:\ is the root of all directories.	Computer
Computer	Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.	Wise Owl
Computer	The geek shall inherit the earth.	Computer, Earth
Computer	Don't byte off more than you can view.	Computer
Computer	A chat has nine lives.	Cat, Keyboard
Computer	Fax is stranger than fiction.	Your choice
Computer	What boots up must come down.	Computer
Computer	Virtual reality is its own reward.	Your Choice
Computer	Modulation in all things.	Music Notes
Computer	A web-surfer and his leisure time are soon parted.	Computer, Clock
Computer	Oh, what a tangled website we weave when first we practice.	Spider and web
Computer	There's no place like http://www.home.com	Home and Hearth
Computer	Windows Never Cease.	Window
Computer	Our policy is to always blame the computer.	Computer
Computer	FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. It comes bundled with the software.	Your choice
Computer	The original point and click interface was a Smith & Wesson	Gun
Computer	Computer programmers don't byte, they nybble a bit	Your choice
Computer	Computer programmers know how to use their hardware	Your choice
Teenager	Whatever...	Your Choice
Baby Panty	Love Pats Only	Handprint
Baby onesie	Automatic Sprinkler	Cute without design
Baby onesie	Action Figure	Baby Activity
Baby Blanket	A Star is Born	Star Design
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	What part of 'Cookie' DON'T you understand?	Cookies
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	I'm Just a Baby - What's Your Excuse?	Baby
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	I Coo and Poo - That's All I Do.	Baby
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Under this mess is one really cute kid.	Food or Baby
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"Eat your veggies"	Veggie design
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"Milk's on"	Baby bottle
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"Ice Cream"	Ice Cream Cones
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	I'm not sloppy, I just don't have any teeth!	Baby Design
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"How about a cracker?"	Parrot
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"Babies are for hugging"	Baby
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"B is for baby"	Baby Block
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"Born with a silver spoon"	Spoon
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	"Sugar and spice"	Heart & Flowers
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Careful! ... I drool at a moments notice	Drool
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Will smile for food.	Smiley
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Got Milk?	Cow, Baby Bottle
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Spit Happens	Baby Design
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	What Goes Down Must Come Up	Baby Design, Balloons
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Danger Zone--UFO'S	Baby Design, Road Sign
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	If you can read this...you might be too close	Food, Your Choice
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Who Loves Ya, Baby?	Your Choice
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Fingered Food	Food, Baby
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	War Zone--Stand Clear	Rockets
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Watch Out Below!	Warning Sign
Baby Bib/shirt	New Kid on the Block	Alphabet Blocks
Baby Bib/shirt	I still live with my parents!
Baby Bib/Burp Cloth	Food Fight!	Food

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