What is "sewing"

Usage examples of "sewing".

So he went to his place and fell asleep and slept long, while the women went down to acre and meadow, or saw to the baking of bread or the sewing of garments, or went far afield to tend the neat and the sheep.

But if she would like to come here this afternoon with her sewing, the neighbors are coming too, and so is Ali Aga, to amuse us.

In the bowels of the caravanserai, young ladies who a year before had been hand-weaving cloth for clothing and hand sewing same were using computers to analyze voice intercepts, running satellite communications gear and managing one of the most advanced battlefield networks to be found in the world.

The dressmakers were hard at work, the mother cutting and the daughter sewing, but, as progress could not be too rapid, I told the mother that she would oblige us if she could procure another seamstress who spoke French.

The little experience she had had with Dodger satisfied her that she should enjoy teaching better than sewing or writing.

Alice chanced to be in the Godere home at the time and joined enthusiastically in the sewing.

Then he noticed a basket of sewing beside herand none of the garments were her own!

I thought it looked very becoming, but Ulaume snatched them out of his hands with a quick murmur about laundering and sewing.

It beckoned more and more with every wretched year that passed: the Kaiserstadt, the Imperial City - but I was seventeen before I got away and then I went like a foolish girl in an operetta, eloping with a young lieutenant stationed in the little town to which I went each day to work as a sewing maid in an orphanage.

Chiding herself for being a peagoose, she called them in and took up her sewing.

For the next month, she worked in secret, sewing Rashed an exquisite tunic.

Betty Raye had almost gone through the entire house when she opened the door to the little sewing room off the sunporch.

If Ronne had plenty of sewing, Nodtvedt had no less forging -- sledge-fittings, knives, pickaxes, bars and bolts, patent hooks by the hundred for dogs, chains, and so on to infinity.

In the meantime I had been able to pay for all the furniture, through my roomers and singing and sewing, but the large house was too much for me, with sewing until twelve at night, and I concluded to take a smaller house and called on Mr.

Sometimes it is easier to begin sewing the braid on at the very center of the top of the crown, or a few rows may be sewed to a small circle of crinoline before attaching to the top of the crown.