As a matter of course she hemstitched the best table linen and bed linen they could afford. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She hemstitched a fine white linen handkerchief for her father while I read. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nervous and frightened, at the same time fascinated, Saxon hemstitched a linen handkerchief intended for ❋ Unknown (2010)
I bought a dozen or so, mostly hemstitched linen, hankies. ❋ Michelle (2008)
They made decorative items like hemstitched tablecloths and garments as complicated as a fitted shirtwaist, even when someone of their social class could have purchased such things ready - or dressmaker-made. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Elegant Linens offers a wide selection of hand-rolled handkerchiefs in fine cotton and Irish linen, with hemstitched trims, mostly priced between $12 and $37 apiece. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Not much worth bothering about here, she was thinking, when she saw the hand-rolled and hemstitched corner of a blue scarf protruding from a coat sleeve. ❋ Rendell, Ruth (2000)
And I think the girls who hemstitched did the same thing day after day. ❋ Unknown (1976)
Trade Work: Ribbon run on webbing for suspenders, infants 'dresses -- eight different styles, children's aprons -- two different styles, hemstitching and embroidery for yokes, ruffling -- hem and hemstitched, faggoting. ❋ Mary Schenck Woolman (N/A)
Aunt Squeaky tiptoed in with a pile of cute little hemstitched handkerchiefs; Mammy had a handful of gay ribbon bows and neckties; and Granny was hanging up ten pair of scarlet mittens. ❋ Nellie Mabel Leonard (N/A)
So far we have made only babies 'shoes, which we sold to foreigners living at Kuling, and some hemstitched handkerchiefs, and some plain knitting. ❋ Margaret E. Burton (N/A)
This, as well as the hemstitched table cloth and napkins she had completed for Nora, was a labor of love. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)
A hemstitched bureau scarf that she had tucked in her trunk, in unquestioning faith in the bureau that was to be part of the ranch equipment, took the "raw edge," as it were, off the desk. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)
Also there, one or two girls spent part time slipping pieces of dark-blue paper under the hemstitched part of the pillow cases and sheets, so that the ultimate consumer might get the full glory of her purchase. ❋ Cornelia Stratton Parker (N/A)
The upper classes have made fifty pillow-cases, twelve sheets, forty aprons, hemstitched three tray cloths, outlined one tidy and made three night-dresses. ❋ Various (N/A)
There were three entire quilts, twenty-nine garments of various kinds, and twenty-five neatly hemstitched handkerchiefs, besides a large quantity of articles for home decoration. ❋ Various (N/A)
There were fourteen handkerchiefs and eight Windsor ties hemstitched by the young men, and hardly any of them had ever used a needle, yet their dainty work was pronounced _equal_, if not superior, to that of the young ladies. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the event of the purchaser deciding to use it as a pocket-handkerchief he can have it hemstitched for a trifling sum. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thank you again for the hemstitched handkerchiefs. ❋ Pauline Lester (N/A)
