needlepoint

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From start to finish, needlepoint is generally a costly and timely process.
從開始到完工，針綉腰帶的制作是一個很費(fèi)錢也很費(fèi)時的活。
Recently she has been following the example of Colette, who took up needlepoint in her 80s when she gave up writing.
目前她在以科萊特爲(wèi)榜樣，其80嵗放棄寫作，開始織綉。
After getting needlepoint belts as gifts from their respective girlfriends, Austin Branson and Peter Smathers saw an opportunity to capitalize on a new market.
奧斯汀?佈蘭森和皮特?司馬薩斯分別從各自的女友那裡收到了針綉腰帶作爲(wèi)禮物，隨後，兩人便意識到一個新的市場投資機(jī)遇正擺在自己的眼前。

He dabbled first in scriptwriting, then needlepoint, opening a tiny shop where he experimented with unusually colored yarn.
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The rugs were rolled, the art was taken down from the walls, her needlepoint chairs — whatever she valued, he told her — her English fabrics, the china, even her family Bible: it was all to be packed up and carted to Milledgeville and thence put on the train to Savannah, where John's cotton broker had agreed to store their things in his warehouse.
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embroidery done on canvas with the same stitch throughout so as to resemble tapestry