The flowers we embroider were not plucked from field and garden, but from the camphor-scented preserves at Kensington.
It was worth while to embroider a garment beautifully, for it would be worn for years, for a lifetime perhaps; and the elaborately worked counterpane would cover the bed in the guest-chamber for more than one generation.
She refused eleven men, and when she was going to be married she made me embroider the monograms of all of them on the skirt of her wedding-dress.
Hepsey gazed at the stoles a long time in silence, handling them daintily; then she remarked: "I used to embroider some myself.
If you would like to have me embroider anything for the church, don't hesitate to ask me.
They agreed to embroider a pair of slippers for her--to do the work themselves.
And then I was so busy that I couldn't get a chance to work at it at home, and they wouldn't let me embroider on the cars; they said it made the other passengers afraid.
These are among the earliest and hardiest blossoms that embroider the high meadows with a diaper of blue and gold.
Just now poppy and aster, gladiolus and thistle, embroider it with patterns infinite and intricate beyond the power of art.
But I cannot play the violin, nor can I do anything, onlyembroider that horrible Himmelbelt," and Marushka pouted, while Banda Bela laughed at her.
She kept the house wonderfully clean, yet she always seemed to have plenty of time to sit at the window and embroider varrotas.
Mistress Reed wishes every woman and girl who makes one to embroider her name on it.
To make a shirt for a rebel were infamy enough, but to embroider your name across its shoulders that all might see that Harriet Owen, a loyal subject of the king, was so employed surpasses belief.
Buy a strip a foot long and six inches wide, and embroider it all over in alternate lines of cross and single stitching, using single zephyr worsted, blue or rose-colored.
Well, now, these same people for whom the women embroider shirts and with whom they divide their honest earnings?
She bought sufficient lawn for a handkerchief, silks to embroider it, and some card-board and colours for her husband and son.
I'll embroider my name all right, but I hate to hemstitch.
You're old enough to like to sew and embroider things," said Edna, reprovingly.
Well, then, generally we read for a little while, or mamma reads to us, and if she does, I embroider something.
We'll eat our luncheon, and then you can embroider and I'll read to you some more.
Hagen begged her to embroider a little cross upon his jerkin to mark the place, so that he might always cover it with his shield.
The queen then begged her to teach her ladies to embroider as she did herself.
The mothers begin to embroider them when their daughters are ten.
The women weave carpets, and embroider beautifully on coarse cotton woven by themselves, and dyed indigo blue and madder red by their Gandaman neighbours.
She had found a place in a great family where she was to embroider and wait upon a young lady.
He should take Laure and find her a position also; she had the fingers of a fair magician, and could embroider marvelously.
And this is a translator who "does not embroider on his text"!
Maidens of the first families were selected to embroider the sacred peplus.
No interruption of this constant intimacy occurred, until Philothea was appointed one of the Canephoræ, whose duty it was to embroider the sacred peplus, and to carry baskets in the grand procession of the Panathenæa.
The gold embroidery done in Mexico is generally very beautiful, and there are many ladies who embroider in great perfection.
The said bocas mangas to be four in number, and the collars two; also the collaretes which may be necessary for the two dalmatics, and which I am to embroider in silk and gold upon white satin.
Nieves took a month to embroider two petticoats for Dona Rosario's daughter--and Martina is slower than she.
I wish you would, dear, and embroideran altar cloth while you are here.
It is so troublesome to embroider on velvet or plush, or gold tissues, that application is the easiest and most effective mode of dealing with these fabrics.
It was the custom to embroider hangings or linen in crewels.
The squaws of the north usually embroider their leathern frocks in a fanciful manner with colored porcupine quills and beads, and bedeck the borders with rattling shells, tags, hawk-bells, and the like.
But this is the work of the women, who often embroider them with beads and colored porcupine quills, in a most beautiful manner.
Many ladies who embroider frequently complain that wash silk does not work smoothly, that the silk snarls or ravels, making a bad-looking piece of work, without saying anything about trying one's patience.
This is essentially a filling stitch and is the most beautiful way to embroider backgrounds.
Materials--For Silk necessary toembroider this tray cloth, and instructions for same, see Daisy Design, page 65.
In nearly all the instructions we have given the maximum quantity of silk required to embroider a 22 inch centerpiece.
Often the most difficult task for many women is choosing the proper shades of silk to embroider a certain stamped linen.
For the more experienced worker this design has many attractions, and aided by the Colored Plate many who otherwise would be unable to embroider this rose will find no difficulty in following the directions.
Embroider the single lines same as described above, fill in the broad portions with perpendicular stitches, piling high, and cover with satin stitch same slant as the lines.
She said she was a poor widow; and Mr. Royal, who was always kind and generous, commissioned her to make two of her handsomest baskets, and embroider the names of his daughters on them.
I will embroider it with white floss-silk, and tie it with white silk cord and tassels.
They sometimes also use porcupine-quills, with which they embroider their garments.
The more industrious and wealthy embroider their garments profusely with small shells.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embroider" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
