Possible Clues:

• Four points indicated by needle, stitched together
• Tacked, perhaps, in all directions
• Darned, as a sock
• Held (on) by stitches
• Stitched up in every direction
• Bad news gets you in stitches
• Locked (up)
• Stitched up all the points
• Fixed with a needle
• Stitched all ways