Sewing Word Search
Sewing by hand and by machine fills this word search: a needle and thread, the spool and the bobbin, a thimble and a pincushion, sharp shears, the seam ripper for mistakes, a pattern and a quilt of calico squares.
Elias Howe patented a lockstitch machine in 1846. Its needle had the eye near the point, so the thread could pass down through the cloth and lock around a second thread fed from below, the job a bobbin does on a machine today. Isaac Singer built a better machine a few years later, and Howe sued him over the design and won a royalty on every machine sold. On a modern machine the presser foot holds the cloth flat while the feed dogs, small toothed bars underneath, move it along a stitch at a time.
Cloth has its own rules. The selvage is the tightly woven edge that will not fray, and the grain runs parallel to it; cut on the bias, at 45 degrees, the same cloth stretches and drapes. Quilters buy a fat quarter, a half yard of fabric cut in half again, about 18 by 22 inches. Calico takes its name from Calicut, the port in India it once came from, and muslin is often traced to the city of Mosul.
Free Sewing Word Search Online Game
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Sewing Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Sewing word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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Medium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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Easy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Sewing has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Applique
- Basting
- Bias
- Bobbin
- Buttonhole
- Calico
- Chalk
- Darning
- Dart
- Elastic
- Embroidery
- Fabric
- Fat Quarter
- Feed Dogs
- Felt
- Hem
- Mannequin
- Muslin
- Needle
- Notions
- Patch
- Pattern
- Pincushion
- Pins
- Presser Foot
- Quilt
- Ruffle
- Scissors
- Seam Ripper
- Seamstress
- Selvage
- Serger
- Shears
- Spool
- Stitch
- Tailor
- Thimble
- Thread
- Treadle
- Tuck