Arenta's tatting was over her foot, and she had to remove it in order to rise and meet Hyde.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Silver fittings for a work basket were chosen and included a silver needle case, a silver thimble case, a silver hem gauge, a unique tatting shuttle, a little silver ripping knife, a cunning strawberry emery with a silver hull and a wee wax cherry with a silver stem.
"Entertaining Made Easy"
Emily Rose Burt
Mrs. Jones certainly could not; and when Eunice went up for Ethelyn, that worthy woman was rocking back and forth in a low rocking-chair, her brass thimble on her finger and Tim's shirt-sleeve in progress of making; while Melinda, in her pretty brown merino and white collar, with her black hair shining like satin, sat in another rocking-chair, working at the bit of tatting she chanced to have in her pocket.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes