How to Use needlework in a Sentence

needlework

noun

• She showed us a sample of her needlework.
• She still enjoys doing needlework.
• Among the steady hands doing the needlework is Paul Saenz, who is in his 24th season with the club.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2022
• Silk-needlework panels came from an old palace in Venice.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Ringo Starr chummily shares a piece of gum with Yoko Ono, who does needlework at John’s side.
  — Kim Willis, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2021
• Both Coyle and Haines have lived at Osprey Lodge for more than three years and met through their mutual love of needlework.
  — Rosemarie Dowell, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Heather had farsightedly brought two sets of needlework with her: one to do on the smooth part of the trip, the other when the going got bumpier.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• There was no room for too muchness when a child was bent over needlework or, in the cases of the less affluent, learning duties in the kitchen.
  — Longreads, 27 Mar. 2020
• Sequin embellishments, and no doubt hours and hours of needlework, make this outfit a work of art.
  — Alexis Gaskin, Glamour, 19 May 2022
• Dennis was in the furniture business, and Carol was an artist who loved to paint and design needlework.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Now Zweiman is asking for more needlework, but with the goal of helping immigrants rather than women’s rights.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Women passed their knowledge of quilting and needlework to their daughters.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Dec. 2019
• Needlework - Seniors are invited to bring their needles and thread at 10 a.m. this Friday to the Jenkins Place.
  — Joanne Berger Dumound/special To Cleveland.com., cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
• Alice loved cooking, crafts, needlework, and her beloved dog, Bella.
  — courant.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• Visitors browse more than 1,300 booths and see all sorts of contests: pie-eating, scarecrow, quilt and needlework.
  — Katherine Rodeghier, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2017
• Beer was brewed in the kitchen and was considered as fundamental a skill for women as cooking and needlework.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• Her favorite pursuits were needlework, bridge, golf and above all spending time with family and friends.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Did that needlework kit from last Mother’s Day quietly vanish after a few weeks of use?
  — Sara Bosworth, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
• Owner Mariana Barran de Goodall learned needlework as a child from a nun and now pays homage to her heritage through handmade linens.
  — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 3 July 2021
• Among items for sale will be examples of rug-making, spinning, weaving and needlework.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• Her mother, the fashion designer Madame Willi Posey, taught her needlework and took her on the first of her museum-haunting trips to Europe.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• But the county seal, designed by a high school student in 1982, lay on a piece of fabric with a needlework design that could not be reproduced on paper.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• Visible mending is all the rage now, so don’t cower under messy needlework.
  — Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• The skillful needlework outlines the figure of famed Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2021
• At the shop on Charles Street Baltimore’s craftswomen sold homemade goods: pickles, preserves and needlework.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
• In her spare time, Dot enjoyed needlework, listening to operas, and spending time with her friends and family.
  — courant.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• There will also be time for karaoke, gardening, volunteering at a senior center, needlework and singing in the church choir.
  — Mel Jimenez, Houston Chronicle, 21 June 2019
• Cannon devoted herself to her children and grandchildren, but not in the bake-a-pie, doing-needlework sense.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
• Common Thread needlework group For all knitters, crocheters, quilters and any others who do needle work.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2017
• The bed in the chamber adjoining and opening into the Blue Room is of antique oak, and is covered with a pale-blue silk quilt and shams, embroidered with art needlework in subdued colors.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024