The sewing societies undertook to clothe the soldiers who went from their respective neighborhoods.
There were sewing societies which met once a week for work and exchange of news.
Sewing societies were formed for pleasure and to aid soldiers and the poor.
Sewing thread was made by the home spinners with infinite trouble, but it was never satisfactory.
I shall be sitting quietly at home for the present, day after day, and it will occupy me and take my thoughts from myself to have some sewing to do.
And she went on sewing with her unnecessarily strong stitches; her mother had been wont to say of her that, if she sewed at all, the results were like iron.
She brings the large sewing basket and they look at the bright pieces.
She has a sewingbasket and is patching a boy's pants.
Honestly, Marie is getting awfully tired of Mary's sensiblesewing and dusting, and her durable clumpy shoes and stuffy dresses, and her nourishing oatmeal and whole-wheat bread.
Illustration: THEN I TOLD HIM MY IDEA] But I did it; and at five minutes before ten she was sitting quietly sewing in her own room.
And I heard her tell the hired girl that she shouldn't have that Sewing Circle here again in a hurry, and when she did have them they'd have to sew in the dining-room with a sheet spread down to catch the threads.
Fill this up with sufficient putty to allow for shrinking, sewing it to the outer skin.
Go on sewing up until you are at the point behind the shoulders, including the fore limbs in this; pad the skin at the toes with clay, to replace the flesh previously cut away.
The ears now require blocking; to do this many taxidermists run a wire all around each ear from the inside, or put cardboard inside, sewing another piece outside by the edges to give shape.
Stuff with a little chopped tow where needed, and sew up neatly, sewing also the skin at top over the end of the bone; if done neatly, the stitches will never show.
Sewing is such wearisome work, if one isn't used to it.
Peck presented the Rock County Agricultural Society with a sewing machine, to be given to the "boss combination girl" of Rock County.
Suitability of materials, needles, and threads to each other, and of the style of sewing to the garments which the children should wear.
In the early Unitarian period, however, the special work of women was for the most part confined to the Sunday-school and the sewing circle.
One of the earliest societies organized for general service, was the Tuckerman Sewing Circle, formed in 1827.
But if his spiritual sight has been developed in such a measure that he is capable of viewing the sewing machine with the vision peculiar to the World of Thought, he will behold a cavity where he had previously seen the form.
Training was offered in a variety of satisfactory trades which required the expert use of the needle, the paste brush, and the foot and electric power sewing machines.
Those entering for lamp and candle shade making do not take the sample mounting, but come from the millinery or sewing classes, where they have had some training with the needle.
Sewing trimmings on hats andsewing linings in hats.
As millinery is a seasonal trade, students are advised to take, in addition, lamp and candle shade making in the Novelty Department, or straw sewing in the Operating Department.
If a large number of expensive sewing machines are desired, the estimates must be increased by several hundred dollars.
In the latter, onesewing machine can be used by several workers, but in electric operating each worker must have her own machine.
Classes The department is divided into three sections: (1) The Elementary, which consists of two classes for the teaching of simple sewing and machine work.
Orders are taken for a limited amount of trimmed hats in order to provide the students with experience in preparing, sewing on the trimming, and in finishing the hat.
His wife, drowsy with the continual whirr of the sewing machine, felt more than half inclined to follow his example.
His wife vouchsafed no reply, and the whirr of the sewing machine went blithely on.
Apparently those who have condemned this proposition, have a secret for cutting stones and wood, and for sewing with the feet.
Half a dollar, anyhow--[Points to the lady's coat on which she has been sewing buttons.
A large table, covered with various materials; at each side of the table a sewing machine.
Tell us about the first sewing machine, or the first railroad, or about crinolines or contemporary theater or art.
She brings the large sewing basket and they look at the bright pieces.
Yes, I rip out the sleeves when I finishsewing on the buttons.
All they will do as a rule is to paste down to the inner surfaces of the boards the loose ends of the tapes on which the sewing is done.
Mary Ann looked around the room until she found Jane's lap-board with a pile of black sewing on it.
You know I have no superstition--nothing is so silly as to be superstitious; still there is no doubt of the fact, that so long as you go on either sewing or spinning for any one, that person cannot die.
Up-stairs there came the steady whirr of a sewing machine, where little Miss Dusenberry, the village dressmaker, was already deep in the mysteries of Jean's trousseau.
I've been sewing and winding all winter for Roxana, too, but I guess she plans to use them for carpets.
These we did carry about with us, sewing them in some patches of our doublets near unto the heart, and as close to the skin as we could handsomely quilt them in, holding them to be restorative.
The females occupy themselves in sewing hides, or spinning rude fabrics.
I took my little hatchet and cut plenty of wood, and twisted the cord that was to be used in sewing ap puk way con un, or mats, for the use of the family.
He obeyed the voice, sewing up the little animal in the folds of a string, or narrow belt, which he tied around his body, at his navel.
It contains the patterns of some sewing silks that I want to get," she added to me, as we stood waiting on the door-steps.
Aunt Hester satsewing at the open glass-doors of the window.
He invented and developed the principle or system of making the various parts of a musket or any other complex manufactured article, such as the sewing machine, so absolutely uniform as to be interchangeable.
He invented the sewing machine for the purpose of lightening the labors of his wife; and she used it for some years before some other genius invented it, or some traveler stole the idea and improved on it.
Among the sewing materials which the lady Euryale had laid beside the scrolls was a pair of scissors.
With active presence of mind she gathered up her garments from the floor, swept the long locks of hair together, and threw them all, with the sewing and the basket that had contained the food, into the stove on the hearth, and set them alight.
Don't ever cut with a folder before sending to binder, as it makes the sewing more difficult.
Approach books, then, as you would a sewing machine, a school, or a factory.
She was in the habit of sitting up late with some piece of sewing or a book, usually alone, for faithful Kunigunde closed her eyes at nine o'clock.
Fraeulein Luise again sat at the window, sewing on a child's jacket, as completely unmoved as if nothing had passed between us the day before.
The Canoness sat by the window with some sewing in her hand.
