He shot the 'possums for the sake of their skins though, spread and tacked the grey pelts against the wall of the house, and when the sun had dried them, Mary stitched them into a rug.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Sometimes Mrs. Ross or Mrs. Morrison took a turn there and knitted or stitched as they watched to see that the Schoolmaster's behaviour was all that might be expected.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
And so she used to sit propped up in a great armchair, with her beautiful complexion and rosy lips, staring at me-or not so much at me, I think, as at nothing-while I busily stitched away, and told her every one of my secrets.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes