Possible Clues:

• Maker of woollen items
• One uses needles and wool
• Dickens's Madame Defarge, e.g.
• Woolgatherer?
• By the sound of it, one might be casting off pearls, but not before woolly swine
• Trinket for worker in wool
• One who may put you in stitches?
• Follower of pattern, typically, making unusual trinket
• Wool worker
• A thousand I withheld from lousier clothes-maker?