Related Clues:

• Mend, perhaps
• Alter with thread
• Mend, as a muffler
• Put on a button, say
• Put a Singer to work
• Affix some buttons, say
• Assemble with thread
• Mend things
• Fix a rip
• Attach a patch, e.g
• Make a dress, say
• Be a seamstress
• Work in the clothing factory encapsulated by prose writer
• Turn up protected by sou'wester to do repair
• Rip off wipers to do some fancy work?