Related Clues:

• Do some mending
• Use the Singer
• Assure, with "up"
• Make a Halloween costume, say
• Ply needle and thread
• Fix a hole, perhaps
• Baste
• Stitch with needle and thread
• Fasten with stitches
• Fasten with needle and thread
• Do some needlework
• Make stitches
• Tie up loose ends?
• Thus it sounds as if it will have one in stitches
• So that sounds the way to get the thread of it