The practical needlewoman will rejoice in this book of new ideas in Crochet Work.
But life to-day is more strenuous; the pride of the needlewoman must, in the majority of cases, have a more practical aim.
The needlewoman hung down her head, overcome with confusion.
Surprised at the long silence of Dagobert, the needlewomanfollowed his movements with timid and uneasy curiosity.
In this manner the great delicacy of the needlewoman would be spared, since she could earn her livelihood by performing duties which would at the same time satisfy her praiseworthy instincts of charity.
Sometimes the three agree cordially together, and their united suffrages and support enhance the fame of the needlewoman to the very highest pitch; but this happy cordiality is of infrequent occurrence, and usually of short duration.
But he had another rich and peculiar garment, which was entirely indebted to the needlewoman for its varied and radiant hues.
Small must be the skill of the needlewoman who does not make this a very rampant animal indeed.
The productions which emanate from the hands of the needlewoman under their guidance are much sought for, much looked at, but soon fall into utter contempt.
Beginners find it hard to undo work once done; but a really good needlewoman never hesitates about it--her one thought is to get the thing right.
To be safe in designing work so minute as that on Illustration 93, one must be sure of the needlewoman who is to execute it.
This is not the moment to urge upon the needlewoman the study of design, but to urge upon the designer the study of stitches.
Reduce them to the fewest anyneedlewoman will allow, and they are still, if not too many, more than are logically required.
To assume, then, that every needlewoman is, or can ever be, competent to design what she embroiders, is to make very small account of design.
Mechanical is a word as easily spoken as another; but if needlework is mechanical, that is more often the fault of the needlewoman than of the mechanism she employs.
The needlewoman is little in vogue here; but as nearly everyone washes at home, washerwomen are plentiful; their wages run from four to five shillings a day, according to their capabilities, food being of course included.
Some remarkable picture frames were cut and carved by amateurs, corresponding well with the handiwork of the needlewoman they enshrined.
Little modernisms creep in wherever the pattern has to be fitted into a new shape; for the accomplishedneedlewoman is seldom an artist.
Never mind, then; I am sure when there is an opportunity, you will remember what a pleasure it will be to me to work for you; and that a poor needlewoman is very much benefited by having private customers.
If I am to be your needlewoman in ordinary, Catherine, I must only be paid what you would pay to others.
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Within the last twelve months I was invited to see the "works" of a wonderful needlewoman in a little Middlesex village.
A single glance at one of the early specimens, though it may not charm, fills one with amazement at the amount of toil, ingenuity, patience, and downright love for the work the ancient needlewoman must have possessed.
We would imagine that when the beginnings of the picture were so glorious the needlewoman would have made some endeavour to work up to it.
But the landmarks had been entirely swept away, and we have little to record of the reign, except that Mary herself was a clever needlewoman and worked much of her heartache, at the neglect of her Spanish husband, into her needlework.
How the faces of the tailor and his needlewoman brightened instantly, as if a gleam of sunshine had penetrated the room.
Thus the poorneedlewoman had been able to discharge four debts, and, at the same time re-establish her credit with the grocer and baker, from whom came the largest portion of the food consumed in her little family.
The Carlingford needlewoman stood opposite her, gazing with eyes that went beyond that figure, and yet dwelt upon it, at so wonderful a spectacle.
I am much interested to know that you have a mother and sister," said the poor needlewoman before him, looking up with calm, fine-lady impertinence in his face.
The child drew back in alarm, but the needlewoman caught her by the arm.
Without knowing how, perhaps through having carelessly caught hold of them, the string which held them broke and they fell off, leaving the needlewoman only in her undergarment.
The needlewoman was hard, cruel, and stubborn, but the majordomo knew how to get at the few grains of good humour she had.
For the shop-girl, as for the needlewoman or general worker of any description whatsoever, over-time is the standing difficulty, and a grievance almost impossible to redress.
For the needlewoman the food question has resolved itself into bread alone, for at least one meal, with a little coffee, chiefly chicory, and possibly some vegetable for the others.
This position of the little inspector's problem must wait, though in it is involved that fatal want of training for either eye or hand which makes the lowest place the only one that the average needlewoman can fill.
A Needlewoman from North Galway Working at Coole: Myself and Anne (one of the maids) went up the middle avenue after dark last night and we got a fright, seeing what we thought to be faeries.
There was a needlewoman used to be sewing late on a Saturday night, and sometimes if there was a button or a thread wanting she would put it in, even if it was Sunday morning; and she lived in Loughrea that is near your own home.
The needlewoman should be absolute master of her needle, for there is a great charm in beautifully carried out stitching; also a good design can be made mechanical and uninteresting by a wrong method of execution.
There was a small dressing-table in front of a long glass, and here the needlewoman sat, out of patience with Plaisir, the famous hairdresser.
The pretty needlewoman guessed that her new friend had been long weaned from tenderness and love, and no longer believed in the devotion of woman.
At any hour of the day the passer-by could see the needlewoman seated in an old, red velvet chair, bending over an embroidery frame, and stitching indefatigably.
Not knowing whether Roger would arrive in a carriage or on foot, the needlewoman from the Rue du Tourniquet looked by turns at the foot-passengers, and at the tilburies--light cabs introduced into Paris by the English.
There had been need of an expert needlewoman in a department recently opened, and Mangan, in charge of the work, had taken her name and address.
She had been an expert needlewoman in her better days and this knowledge might earn her their board.
It has cost me all I had, and I have lived and worked with my hands," said the needlewoman of Back Grove Street, lifting her thin fingers to the light and looking at them, pathetic vouchers to the truth of her story.
He was acquainted, to some extent, with theneedlewoman of Back Grove Street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "needlewoman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
