needlepoint

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Inside Dorothy’s Kansan house, a once-shadowed frying pan on the wall now dangles front and center, as does a digitally added “Home Sweet Home” needlepoint nailed to the threshold.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

She gave the actor a “beautiful needlepoint pillow” and they’ve spoken over the phone about their favorite cop shows.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2024

Zoe Kurland: Even though the Troy School was different, these learned women still found themselves graduating into a world where they would be expected to cook and clean and needlepoint and smell nice and whatever.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

More confoundingly, the company invested in doomed-to-fail ventures that included a needlepoint company and an effort to raise a shipwreck from Geneva Lake.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Then as I continued to polish the shoes and buff them, Miss Volker walked over to her needlepoint map and stuck a red map pin into Mrs. Hamsby’s roof at A-41.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos