An adaptation of buttonhole stitch, and is very nice for large work such as portieres.
The honiton lace is applied by buttonhole stitch, using Corticelli Lace Embroidery Silk.
The "Ladder" for instance is two rows of buttonhole stitch a short distance apart and parallel, connected by regular overcast stitches.
Work in indented (long and short on the inside) buttonhole stitch in two shades of pale soft green.
In the alb of Pope Boniface there is no buttonhole stitch--the ornaments in squares called quadri were inserted in the linen of the alb, and were surrounded by rows of punto tirato worked in the linen itself.
It is singularly like the dresses of saints in some of the Ravenna mosaics, and the more ancient stitches can be seen in the specimen given, but there is no buttonhole stitch.
Every thread of it is made with a needle on a parchment pattern, and only two stitches are used, buttonhole and a double-loop which is really a buttonhole stitch.
Here each of the four light rings is bound with raffia in buttonhole stitch to the black ring above it, as well as to the one below.
Bind these four rings together in a hollow square with bindings five-eighths of an inch long of raffia in buttonhole stitch (see Fig.
C--what sailors call a half hitch and mothers a buttonhole stitch.
A cluster of berries can be very prettily worked in buttonhole stitch in the way shown in fig.
Buttonhole stitch can be varied in many ways, dependent mainly upon the spacing of the stitch and the direction that the needle takes when picking up the material.
Star in buttonhole stitch on background of small crosses.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buttonhole stitch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
