You simply put your foot on the little electric footrest and the sewing machine hummed away stitching happily.

And Jo stitched away, with a wise nod which set her mother's heart at rest about her for the present at least.

Iveta stitched away and sat very still, all the more after she had caught the faint sound of voices raised in the next room.

She stitched away, while he looked on admiringly.

She was stitching away when suddenly she became aware that he was scrutinizing her.

It was while he was so engaged one afternoon that a prison visitor...saw him busily stitching away.

Having thus spoken, he sat down again, caught up his boot hurriedly, and began stitching away as if for bare life.

A pretty set of scarecrows we should look, if we were to wait for women to do it for us,' said Jack, stitching away.

I have been stitching away, Miranda, ever since you told me about your good news.

His hostess was stitching away at a quilt she had exhumed from a chest under the window, chattering in a scratchy monotone.