Related Clues:

• Work in the clothing factory encapsulated by prose writer
• Turn up protected by sou'wester to do repair
• Repair by sewing, socks perhaps
• Rip off wipers to do some fancy work?
• Do a home ec assignment
• Follow the pattern perhaps with segment of The Viennese Waltz
• 'Well, heck'
• “Phooey!”
• "Aw, rats!"
• Mend with stitches
• Attach a button, perhaps
• Possible follower of 34 Down
• Do some hemming
• Join a quilting bee
• Fix, as a slip