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Crocheting   Listen
noun
crocheting  n.  
1.
Something created by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle.
Synonyms: crochet.
2.
Creating a garment of needlework.





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"Crocheting" Quotes from Famous Books



... flirted with him till his gold-rimmed eye-glasses protruded; behaved like a thoughtful and considerate angel to the old, uninteresting and infirm; romped like a young goddess with the adoring children of the boarders, and was fiercely detested by the crocheting spinsters rocking in acidulated rows ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... Fairfax's compliments and "Please, will Mr. Sewell come at two o'clock to dress Mistress Fairfax's hair?" Nor, is it difficult to picture William, when the shop day is over, with his apprentices bent over the fine net, meticulously crocheting, by candlelight, the white hair into a lofty creation that will, in about six months time, take ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore
... spotless from dirt, and suited both to the weather and the occasion; doing for herself what her own personal needs require; arranging flowers; entertaining company; nursing the sick; "letting down" and "letting out" to suit the growing ones; patching, darning, knitting, crocheting, braiding, quilting,—but let us remember the warning of the old ...
— A Domestic Problem • Abby Morton Diaz


Words linked to "Crocheting" :   needlework, handicraft


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