A great resource for the beginning seamstress is Sew What?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Pink Rose" by Federico Andreotti (1847-1930)] Reference

That day, too she called a seamstress who was making her some clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

For I don't call the seamstress an angel till Ma says the poor thing must "walk.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

Isn't that what a seamstress is for?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09] Reference

When she appeared again, she was Lola Osawa, seamstress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare] Reference

My mother was a seamstress and she learned me how to sew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference

Margaret said her mother was a seamstress and also a cook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference

The charming little seamstress is one of the most capable of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare] Reference

The seamstress shrieked "sayonara" and pelted space with the peas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

The year is 1895 and Pauline Gross, a young seamstress, is scared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peering Into the Future] Reference

I am a psychological seamstress, a fashionista for the suicide set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glass Handcuffs] Reference

Miss 'Rill was not a bad seamstress, and the two friends began to make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

Ralph Ewing was an easy winner, thanks to Mollie's skill as a seamstress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference

Parks lost her seamstress job, and harassment led her to move to Michigan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unforgettable] Reference

A girl should be at least eighteen or twenty before she becomes a day seamstress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference

On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

Banker and baker, soldier and seamstress, were equally interested in the currency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Says Erna Goglin, a retired seamstress, "" Things have just been going downhill. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Lower Saxony Goes . . .?] Reference

I went into the school as seamstress and nurse, and remained there nearly two years.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

The 48-year-old seamstress was newly widowed-her husband died suddenly a year earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Human Horror Story] Reference

Maria advertises for a situation, in some of our first families, as private seamstress.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

Mephistopheles and clapping his hands, his fiancee Bertha, a poor seamstress soon enters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

She was unbelievably artistic, an amazing cook and seamstress, and incredibly intelligent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natalie Bencivenga: The Woman I Never Knew] Reference

She was a seamstress, and by toiling many hours a day managed to get enough money to buy it.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference

Toward the last it was found necessary to employ an assistant, a seamstress, known of old to Mata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

His mother, a seamstress, brought him and his brother Kritsada from Thailand to Omaha, Neb., as boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Established Designer With the Eye of an Upstart] Reference

As 300-pound players wandered in and out, the team's seamstress altered it to fit my much smaller frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hush: It's Epilepsy] Reference

She just got she had really poor circulation, perhaps from having sat as a drapery seamstress all that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina'] Reference

I mean, Valerie has shown herself to be a fantastic seamstress in weeks past, but this dress was a hot mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 6 Recap: Bridesmaid Revisited] Reference

His oldest sister, Isabelle, a fine seamstress, had sewn it there and embroidered the edges with gold thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

The poor seamstress was unable to speak from emotion, but held out her hand with trembling eagerness for the flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets] Reference

For supper that night I sat at a table with a housekeeper, a parlor maid, and a seamstress, and listened to much talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With the Working Woman] Reference

But "'Thusa had such a pretty neck," said the guilty seamstress to herself; and what did an inch or so matter in the end?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

With the ability to cook and sew you can properly direct the cook or seamstress, and they will respect you for your education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

One intelligent meat man gave his experience with a poor seamstress, who insisted on buying tenderloin steak at 60 cents per pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference