to decorate with ornamental needlework.

to produce or form in needlework.

to adorn or embellish rhetorically, esp. with ornate language or fictitious details

He embroidered the account of the shipwreck to hold his listeners' interest.

to do embroidery.

to add embellishments; exaggerate (often fol. by on or upon ).

verb

beautify , bedeck , braid , color , cross-stitch , deck , decorate , embellish , fix up , garnish , gild , gussy up , knit , ornament , pattern , quilt , spruce up * , stitch , weave pattern , work , aggrandize , amplify , blow-up , build up , distend , dramatize , elaborate , enhance , enlarge , expand , falsify , fudge * , heighten , hyperbolize , lie , magnify , make federal case , make mountain out of molehill , overdo , overelaborate , overembellish , overemphasize , overestimate , overstate , pad * , play up * , puff * , romanticize , spread on thick , stretch , stretch the truth , yeast * , adorn , exaggerate , lace , sew