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Hemstitching

noun
1.
A stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups.  Synonym: hemstitch.





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"Hemstitching" Quotes from Famous Books



... motored down to Menlo and dropped in at the Maynards. There were a lot of the props of San Francisco society, all as rich as croesus, sitting on the veranda crocheting socks or sacks for a crop of new babies that are due. One or two were hemstitching lawn, or embroidering a monogram, or something else equally useless or virtuous. They were talking mild gossip, and didn't even have powder on. It ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


Words linked to "Hemstitching" :   embroidery stitch, hemstitch, sewing stitch


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