The word "sewing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to talk about the activity of joining or mending fabric or other material together using a needle and thread. For example, "My grandmother taught me to do sewing when I was a young girl."
After lunch, it's time to practise our saddle-stitching: sewing both sides of a seam at once.
Sewing leather is immensely satisfying; it feels like an exercise from a bygone era, as if I'm sewing gauntlets in the 16th century.
Some female genital mutilation involves sewing up the vagina to leave a small hole and childbirth causes considerable bleeding that requires rapid repair.
We started looking at ways to get sewing machines to local women.
Four hours of solid stitching later – of slippery hands and yelling at instructions, of holding the needle with pliers because sewing through three layers of shoe leather is basically like pushing a buffalo carcass through a catflap – and the name Simple Way started to look like a sarcastic threat.
Vincent takes a break from sewing to ask me to rub argan oil into a fresh tattoo of a 1940s deep-sea diver that covers half his back.
She went on to accuse the government of tearing down the "social fabric" of Sudan and sewing "discord between the sects of society".
Tolokonnikova spends her days adhering to a strict prison regimen dominated by work in the colony's factory, sewing uniforms for various Russian officials.
"My life has been about so much pain, and Antony wrote the songs for this piece like he was making a costume, sewing directly on to my skin".
In Dresden, prisoners were among those roped into sewing and filling sandbags, while DIY stores were offering free shovels to rescue workers and urging other European countries to deliver more pumps and wellingtons after stocks in Germany ran dry.
She spent hours and hours sewing little flowers onto it.
