sewing bee

I don't mean sermons, or those awful sewing bees we used to have.

It seemed to the captain they'd come from a sewing bee instead of a potentially lethal combat.

She was coming over to help with the girls' sewing bee, Ida had said last night after springing the news of a baby on him.

A giving circle is a bit like a book club, a sewing bee or those investment groups for church members who pool resources and buy stock.

The children celebrate the end of five weeks of school by holding a recitation, and the families celebrate with a sewing bee.

Hopper groused, berating studio bosses for turning the event into something "no dressier than a missionary's sewing bee."

He's even heard rumors that tweens today listening to Britney Spears are starting sewing bees, just like Granny.

The most common event for boy-girl association is the fortnightly Sunday evening sing; however, the youth use sewing bees, frolics, and weddings for other opportunities.

He is a judge on the television series, The Great British Sewing Bee presented by Claudia Winkleman.

In 2013, Grant was a judge on The Great British Sewing Bee, a BBC television series.

GHADA AMER extracts cutting-edge elegance from the unlikely tradition of the sewing bee.

Great British Sewing Bee is a BBC Two television reality television programme in which amateur sewers compete to be named "Britain's best home sewer".

Sewing bees fight plastic bags, raise funds for library, San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE, August 22, 2007.

Songs originally heard in fields and at sewing bees, weddings, funerals and village celebrations - songs that paced work and bound communities - were borrowed and spiffed up for concert-hall appearances.

While the final creation will simply be stitched together and not padded and cross-stitched, or quilted, it is referred to as a quilt because it is being made in the folk-art tradition of patchwork quilts, which were created in sewing bees.

America Online of Vienna, Va., and its rivals, Compuserve of Columbus, Ohio, and Prodigy of White Plains, provide a combination citizens' band radio, public library and sewing bee, conducted round-the-clock on sophisticated computer networks.