I am to take those children's dirty fingers in mine and patiently initiate them stitch by stitch into the mysteries of knitting and netting.
That's so much dear foolishness--and not a stitch of clothes made yet!
However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again.
Life is like that, Myrtle, one stitchat a time, taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
I have a stitch in my side, child, and it makes me draw a long breath now and then; that's all.
It came last night, and we looked for that long stitch to excuse it, and Dorry said it ought to be, for he guessed that was the stitch that saved nine.
Has no borers--thinks "a stitch in time saves nine.
Hardly had the needle put in the last stitch than the maiden saw through the window the white feathers of the prince, whom the spindle had brought thither by the golden thread.
My trade is of that kind that each stitch must always be exactly like the other.
He took the shoes in his hands to observe them closer, and they were so neatly made that there was not one bad stitch in them, just as if they were intended as a masterpiece.
This is done by taking a stitchon the breadth next you, pointing the needle towards you; and then taking a stitch on the other breadth, pointing the needle from you.
The best stitchis made by putting in the needle, and then turning the thread around it, near the eye.
This is better than to stitch and then cross-stitch.
The stitch of the vine is a modification of buttonhole-stitch.
In making up flannel, back-stitch and run the seams, and then cross-stitch them open.
Then the women would prepare the skin and stitch it with bone needles into warm garments, and the horns would be used as picks or other implements, so that nothing was wasted.
Even Mrs. Umfraville's kind ways could not restore her; she only hung her head and mumbled when she was asked to show her work, and did not so much as know what was to become of her piece of cross-stitch when it was finished.
Now, Mary always has her things so nice; and she works so beautifully; she has never let Lily wear a stitch but of her setting; and she always wished for a box like this.
Stitch by stitch the coil grows, each one sewed, by making a hole with the awl through the coil already made, to that coil.
Search us if you like; search every scrap and stitch we possess; but you dare to lay a finger on us without a warrant!
The saw-cuts at the kettle stitch are less deep and quite narrow; they only mark the place where the thread is to pass in and out.
The needle is inserted in the back groove of the first sheet at the left hand underneath the kettle stitch and the thread drawn out to the knots.
These end papers are made up before sawing-in and sawn in with the book, and when it is not possible to stitch them with the machine they must be sawn in before overcasting, or the sawing would cut the threads.
As many cuts must be made in the book as there are cords to be used, besides the so-called kettle stitch at head and tail by which the thread is passed from one sheet to the other.
By this, the first thread is firmly drawn as a chainstitch into the headband now beginning.
If the suture is made too tight the subsequent swelling may cause the stitchto tear out.
In order to make a firm suture the depth of the stitch should be the same as the distance the stitch is from the edge of the wound.
She is as stingy as she is rich; she beats me down to the lowest possible price for everystitch I do for her.
Border of Lacis or darned Square Mesh Net Punto a Tela or Linen-Stitch XII.
Cherubs and conventional flowers are introduced into the background: the robes are worked apart from the figures in a lacis stitch called mezza mandolina.
B] Darning stitchexists in the British Museum on a piece of material woven from flax, and found in an Egyptian tomb.
So called because the effect when closely worked makes a surface like ivory, as it is quite without the slight rib which shows in punto a festone, which is the stitch usually found in the various punti in aria.
This lace may be distinguished from Alençon by the use of a single thread instead of a buttonholed stitch in the cordonnet as well as by the make and lay of the meshed ground, point de Venise à réseau.
The flat point is probably the earliest distinctive lace; but this was soon enriched by work upon work, stitch upon stitch, which gave the name of rose-point or punto in rilievo.
A close réseau is worked by using a stitch very similar to buttonhole stitch, and the effect is of a texture very like the cambric it adorns.
And chain stitch is seen on a fragment of Greek work of the fourth century, B.
French and it may be from Alençon: every detail of the patterns is outlined with a buttonhole-stitch cordonnet.
By arranging carefully that several of the photographs should give the exact size of each stitch of the work, seeing and handling the originals have been rendered practically unnecessary.
The ground is entirely composed of hexagonal meshes worked over in button-hole stitch of Point d'Argentan.
This last-named stitch is virtually the stitch used in tapestry-making, and it often appears on a small scale in intricate, drawn and whipped thread Persian linen embroidery, the practice of which is assuredly of great age.
The square mesh netting has centres worked in matting stitch, punto a stuora; threads radiate from these centres and darning stitch and punto di treccia are both used to form various patterns, some cruciform 7 ft.
The homely old proverb says, "A stitch in time saves nine.
A great many tangled and troublesome things in this world would be set right speedily if everybody believed in a stitch in time.
Don't forget the stitch in time, wherever you may be.
I felt too sorry for her to tell her that experience had taught her a very dear lesson, but it did seem hard that the savings of two months should have been lost for want of a stitch in time.
This machine gives a chain stitch sufficiently firm to resist a pull in the direction of the length of the pieces, but giving readily to a pull at the end of the thread.
