needleworker

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When she’s not volunteering, Merrill is an avid needleworker and enjoys difficult crossword and jigsaw puzzles.

From Washington Times • Dec. 1, 2016

The royal needleworker will turn the money over to the national exchequer as her contribution to Britain's dollar drive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hours are frightfully long, the disabilities of the French needleworker being in many points the same as those of her English sister.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen

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 Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary

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 Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt