The fashioning of pots and pans.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : the latest fashion in dresses. ,the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion. ,in a warlike fashion. ,He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture. ,All fashions of people make up the world.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The cavemen fashioned tools from stones. ,doctrines fashioned to the varying hour.    From Dictionary.com. 

He had some trouble in fashioning a hangman's noose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

USATODAY. com - Hornets band together in fashioning sweep of Heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Hornets band together in fashioning sweep of Heat] Reference

Crawford said he took that into account in fashioning an appropriate sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Dean Moore] Reference

We are prepared to think creatively and act boldly in fashioning a new Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada After the Meech Lake Accord—Is the Nation Falling Apart?] Reference

She agreed to the proposal, and the Carpenter spent all the day in fashioning a marvellous palanquin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Punjab] Reference

There is no doubt that both authors were regularly attracted to folk material in fashioning their respective works.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest] Reference

One of Canada's most urgent challenges, right now, is finding the right role for economics in fashioning our political future as a nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Foundation for Growth] Reference

George Lucas worked with Joseph Campbell, an expert on the world's basic myths, in fashioning a screenplay that owes much to man's oldest stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [11.03] Reference

This could be part of their "fashioning" - slightly changing the body - perhaps to make them more similar to their old bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unofficial GuildWars Site] Reference

I vaguely recall fashioning some kind of protest button that no one else would wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

Wrote an incredible amount; still beyond me how anybody can call the fashioning of a book work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

But Winkler questioned Pawlenty's stomach for reciprocating on the broader budget problem, namely fashioning a compromise with shared pain and sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minneapolis/St. Paul Breaking News, Weather, Video, Traffic and Sports for Minnesota from WCCO-TV] Reference

This first stage, then, in the formation of the purpose, where various depicted future possibilities are summoned for assessment, may be called our fashioning of an ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature of Goodness] Reference

I liked the idea of fashioning good food from stuff we have laying around the house, and we've spent a good portion of the rest of day looking for similar cupboard-staple recipes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The glories of impromptu baking] Reference

Wisdom's "fashioning" function certainly overlaps with God's creative function.    From Wordnik.com.  [HANDS Across the Godhead?] Reference

I'm not talking solely about creative feats such as fashioning purses out of twinless mittens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathy Erway: Spontaneously Compost] Reference

Hornets band together in fashioning sweep of Heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Hornets band together in fashioning sweep of Heat] Reference

Prose, it seems, is the art of fashioning a living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry Newell: Searching for the Poetry in Life] Reference

Malone ended up fashioning his own deal with the heirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cable's Quiet Mogul] Reference

Then fashioning a trumpet with his two hands he bellowed like a fog horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Affairs] Reference

But other GOP insiders say that fashioning a ticket of sorts would backfire.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SUPREME SALES TEAM] Reference

Now he faces serious obstacles in fashioning a workable nonlegislative agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peso Bill's Bailout] Reference

It does not consist of fashioning proposals that would attract bipartisan support on their merits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Double-Talk] Reference

She ought to have nothing to do but enjoy life after her own fashioning, and be calm and satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

How many times, while her fingers were busy fashioning them, she had planned to make just such for her very own!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

But the decline was partially offset by the Web sites that newspapers are fashioning as a lifeline to the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Notes: A new poll shows 'old media' holding their own in an Internet world] Reference

But Weiner sees potential growth in the character, who has prevailed by fashioning a false identity and zealously tending it.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mad Men,' Don Draper and martinis return Sunday] Reference

They could not help, it is true, their original make, nor the fashioning which their age, time, and circumstances had put upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Analysts say Burma's military is fashioning its power base along similar lines to Indonesia under former President Suharto in the 1960s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analysts See Burma Military 'Juggernaut' Heading to Elections in November] Reference

China is a master at low-ball financing, fashioning loans of billions of dollars at tiny interest rates that can stretch beyond 20 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft] Reference

Spencer found a girl, Brittney Lambie, shot in the leg and losing blood rapidly; she ran for a first-aid kit and began fashioning a tourniquet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys Behind The Ambush] Reference

House Republicans are fashioning themselves after Newt Gingrich, the bombastic former Speaker who led them to their first majority in 40 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The GOP’s 'No' Problem] Reference

At Microsoft, a set of top executives went into hard-core mode, working full time at fashioning what they thought would be a definitive proposal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Real About A Deal] Reference

And Schilling is eternally irascible, fashioning himself on the pages of his blog, "38 Pitches," as a man whose only concerns are honesty and truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonds and Baseball's Racial Divide] Reference

Giddy in victory, the speaker suggests that Senate Leader Bob Dole might support the House bill, even adopt it instead of fashioning a Senate bill from scratch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Taxes] Reference