Cross stitch, the best known in this group, can be worked in slightly different ways, according to the purpose for which it is required.
Cross stitch is a double stitch worked diagonally over two threads of the canvas each way.
These are inlaid into the unbaked clay or earth, of which the walls are constructed, and while binding it together, give the effect of the surface being hung with a material which has a pattern worked all over in cross stitch.
The stitching on the armorial bearings is the same as that now followed in many trifling things worked in wool (cross stitch).
The ground is worked in cross stitch, the raised patterns in satin stitch; in the middle of each pattern there is a cross stitch.
In the centre the flower is completed by a knot; the ground in cross stitch is completed on either side by a narrow border of scallops, formed of slanting stitches divided in the centre by 1 slanting stitch.
The principal stitches used are common cross stitch, Gobelin stitch, leviathan stitch, raised or velvet stitch, tent stitch, and others.
German stitch is worked diagonally, and consists of the first part of a cross stitch, and a tent stitch alternately worked.
This stitch is proper for grounding, when the design is worked in tent or cross stitch; and the effect would be heightened by two strongly contrasted shades of the same color.
You work in plain cross stitch three rows, then leave three threads, and again work three rows as before; thus proceed until your canvas is covered, leaving three threads between every triple row of cross stitch.
The canvas must be more distinct in tent stitch than in cross stitch, or rather more strongly contrasted, especially in the dark shades of flowers: without attention to this point, a good resemblance of nature cannot be obtained.
Work in cross stitch, over one thread, with single wool.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cross stitch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
