When the children looked at him closely, they could see that his face and hands and feet were knitted from colored worsteds, while his eyes were two big black beads.
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum
Once or twice I caught the stranger looking at me while my husband conversed, but I was occupied with my embroidery, and did not seem to notice him; perhaps he was admiring the contrast between the pure white of my dress and the gorgeous richness of the worsteds in my lap.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
It was all dining-room work; and we were chatty over it, as if we had sat down to wind worsteds; and there was no kitchen in the house that morning.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney