needleful

Old Mis' Meade, translating this, held her breath and waited; but Amarita only sighed and took a needleful of thread.

The next needleful proved more successful, and the listener asked if the Ashbys were getting on comfortably at present.

"I didn't ask you," said Jane, biting off a needleful of thread as she had always been strictly forbidden to do.

The needleful should not be lengthy lest it gets worn before it is all worked in.

When a new needleful is commenced be sure to make the first knot very firm.