The word "sew" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning to join two pieces of cloth together with a needle and thread, or as a noun meaning the stitching of two pieces of cloth together. Example: My grandmother taught me how to sew a button onto my shirt.
Thanks in part to the publicity surrounding the Rana Plaza disaster, we can at least imagine the men and women who sew them.
Hudson has learnt to cut his own hair, sew his torn clothes, and shave in the van's wing mirror.
Next, learn to sew or find a dry cleaner who can.
First, the cook must rustle up the stuffing – a byzantine combination of, among other things, breadcrumbs, veal, pork, butter, caraway seeds, poppy seeds, apples, orange, crushed tinned pineapple and preserved ginger – and sew it carefully into the bird, which is then browned in a very hot oven.
You choose the shoe that you want to make – or the satchel, belt, or hat – and they send you a box full of pre-cut, buttery-soft leather shapes that you sew together yourself.
On paper, it couldn't have been simpler – you line up a piece of leather with the sole, thread your needle and sew through pre-pressed holes – but I hadn't braced myself for how utterly laborious the job would be.
My mum wanted to wear something different, so she learned how to sew.
I'm creative, but don't have the inclination or patience to sew, knit or sculpt.
This might sound far-fetched but one ordinary bloke, John-Paul Flintoff, taught himself to sew, and now customises, makes and mends his own clothes – and has written a book, Through the Eye of a Needle, about it.
Or that George Weston, chief executive of Primark's parent company, received over £5m last year, while the young women who sew his firm's T-shirts get less than £30 a month.
