The word 'embroider' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the act of decorating fabric with designs using thread and a needle. For example: "The woman delicately embroidered a series of flowers along the border of her dress."
At the start of the project, plain napkins were purchased and an invitation issued for people to embroider them.
Willie begins to write, and though fiction allows him to embroider, if not totally rewrite, parts of his past, the effort is all too much.
More plausible possibilities include a decision to embroider; incompetent or biased processing of intelligence; the eagerness of spies to please superiors; and sloppy political oversight.
A woven RFID tag could be read by a wireless reader (and, no doubt, eventually by a smartphone app too which could lead to some embarrassment when someone scans your new Prada number and discovers it's a knock-off).Researchers have also used conductive yarn to embroider alphanumeric and musical keyboards into fabric.
He was receptive to the interest in landscape that was so integral a part of the contemporary Flemish works then arriving in Venice, and in his many Madonna paintings he used bits and pieces of the natural world to vary and embroider his theme.
As anyone who has ever attempted to sew on a button, fix a loose hem or stitch up a rip - never mind embroider an entire cushion or quilt - will know: sewing is hard work.
A heavy touch cost Arsenal the chance to embroider the scoreline, and spared Bournemouth from the rout it might easily have been.
Three years later, Emin called her first White Cube show My Major Retrospective and used her early sexual experiences as inspiration to embroider quilts and tents, while her 1999 Turner Prize-nominated "My Bed" featured her dirty knickers.
In Serbia, as late as the 1930s, the Homeric investigator Milman Parry came across folk bards who could recall, and embroider, traditional stories thousands of lines long.
By Perriand's account, when she arrived at his atelier with her portfolio in hand, seeking a position, he dismissively told her, "We don't embroider cushions in my studio".
During the Baroque era a basic singing skill was the ability to ornament and embroider a melody, to add brilliant and expressive figures, runs, and trills to the tune sketched out by the composer.
