needleful

/ (ˈniːdəlfʊl) /

a length of thread cut for use in a needle

Words nearby needleful

When a needleful of worsted is finished leave the end hanging and start another.

The Child's Rainy Day Book |Mary White
The needleful should not be lengthy lest it gets worn before it is all worked in.

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving |Grace Christie
Take two or three threads from a strand of filoselle in your needle at once, and do not take too long a needleful.

Harper's Young People, April 5, 1881 |Various
Old Mis' Meade, translating this, held her breath and waited; but Amarita only sighed and took a needleful of thread.

Country Neighbors |Alice Brown

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

Five Children and It |E. Nesbit