She began teaching at 14 and was a noted needleworker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Information for Bella Harkavy] Reference

The tunics worn over armour offered great opportunities to the needleworker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

"Penne fit me" (Penne made me), pointing to the existence of a needleworker of that name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is the daintiest needleworker I have ever seen; she was taught by the nuns at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference

Rose Wortis was an Eastern European immigrant needleworker who devoted her life to working-class organizing and the Left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Wortis.] Reference

She was an enthusiastic needleworker, photographer and geologist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Sugar Pine, that has EVERYTHING a creative needleworker could ever need!.    From Wordnik.com.  [thing-a-day 2010] Reference

Arachne, a most industrious needleworker, had the audacity to contest against Pallas, the goddess of the art of weaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them] Reference

In it the craft of the needleworker is not carried to its limit; but, on the other hand, it makes great demands upon design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

In appliqué the craft to the needleworker is not carried to its limit, but, on the other hand, it calls for great skill in design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them] Reference

Hours are frightfully long, the disabilities of the French needleworker being in many points the same as those of her English sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future] Reference

These, in turn, can easily be modified by the individual needleworker to reflect their own taste in colors and fit into their own home.    From Wordnik.com.  [whip up] Reference

Mrs. O'Shaughnessy is the daintiest needleworker I have ever seen; she was taught by the nuns at St. Catherine's in the "ould country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference

Let the needleworker study the work of the needle in preference to that of the brush; let her aim at what stuff and threads will give her, and give more readily than would something else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

But above all requirements the quilt maker must be an expert needleworker, capable of making the multitude of tiny stitches with neatness and precision if she would produce the perfect quilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them] Reference

The needleworker has less than ever occasion to be afraid of geometric pattern; for it is peculiarly difficult to get in it that appearance of rule-and-compass-work which makes ornament so dull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

The pin poppet, as its name denotes, was, however, intended originally for the requirements of the early needleworker who at the dames 'school won renown in those great achievements -- the samplers of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Household Curios] Reference

It is sufficient to observe that the instruction we have tried to impart is that which it is absolutely necessary for the needleworker to master thoroughly before she attempts to cope with the artistic element of her work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Embroidery] Reference

But the attempt to realise it commonly works out in one of two ways: either a good design is spoilt in the working for want of executive skill on the part of the designer, or good workmanship is spent on poor design, as good, perhaps, as one has any right to expect of a skilled needleworker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

The patient labour expended by the amateur artist, the needleworker, and the connoisseur of home art a generation or two ago has provided the collector to-day with an exceptionally interesting class of curio, for there is much to admire in amateur craftsmanship, and especially in the handiwork of the needlewoman and the weaver and decorator of so many beautiful textiles which have been preserved to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Household Curios] Reference

FOR I AM THINE, 1631, "wrought by a seventeenth-century needleworker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Household Curios] Reference

An accomplished needleworker, she already knew how to knit, crochet, quilt, tat, and embroider.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories] Reference