needlewoman

Apparently it's quite hard to find a really good needlewoman in this city.

His mother became a needlewoman after her husband's death, taking on work from local manor houses.

Send me all our needlewomen, and do it at once."

She was a nimble little needlewoman, and they were finished before anyone got tired of them.

The light is better there, and I am no such expert needlewoman as Emma.

Asked her wot was wrong, I did," said the needlewoman.

She also became a skilled needlewoman who would be later renowned for her embroideries.

"Kista was the best needlewoman among us," I told him angrily.

Miller comes from a poor, working-class family: His father was a tailor and his mother a needlewoman.

In adult life, she worked as a needlewoman and in a jute processing factory.

However, if you are already a keen needlewoman the answer to using this type of fabric is what we call 'cut and sew'.

'But what sort of things would a needlewoman have in her workbasket, do you think?'

Take pains; and the best needlewoman shall have a pretty bit of white satin for a doll's bonnet."

In fact she was growing into a competent needlewoman, but not because she practiced it in the afternoons.

"We want people to appreciate the remarkable genius of American needlewomen and to understand the relationship of quilting to folk art."

I am sure you are an expert needlewoman, but will they not appear ... well, provincial?"

She was an accomplished needlewoman.

A needleman or needlewoman is a person who practices the handcraft of needlework.

With the easy-to-use tapes that are available, decorative headings need not present any difficulties to the inexperienced needlewoman.

Just as she had been a conscientious dancer, she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman.

Tobin alone of the highborn ladies Meiglan knew was a notable needlewoman.

I trust you're an adequate needlewoman?"

She was an accomplished needlewoman in an era when needlework was held in high esteem.

For the more experienced needlewoman, hand-pleated deep headings can give the great satisfaction of creating beautiful curtains with a professional finish.

She is also an excellent needlewoman, crochet rings around Miss Faith Cartwright.