So Buck tells him and Cora that Sandy took eleven stitches in Jerry's hide yesterday afternoon and he was playing this hunch, which he had reason to feel was a first-class one.
Take six or eight stitches back and forth in this way.
With a needleful of white linen thread sew the rug into the frame, taking the stitches through the edge of the canvas and around the frame until it is securely fastened in.
Make more of these stitchesaround the disk, until finally it is entirely covered (see Fig.
If the strand of raffia gives out before the disk is covered sew the short end through the last two or three stitches on the edge of the disk and start a new piece by bringing the end through the last stitch on the edge.
It is then sewed around like the rest of the mat, except that in the first row you will have to take great care to run the stitches through the natural-coloured braid so that they will not show.
Fasten the end by taking one or two small stitches near the left side of the strip of silk at about two inches from the lower edge.
The short ends of both strands should be covered with the buttonhole stitches as you go on.
And Margaret sat at the door of her lodge in the moonlight, putting the last stitches into her work.
I ought to have these stitchesout on Monday or Tuesday.
Her eye held him in a heavy vacuity, watched with a trancelike fixity his careful stitches and the armlong stretch of the drawn thread.
The wagon gave a creaking lurch and Bella nearly lost count of her stitches which made her frown as she was turning the heel.
She made a grab at her knitting and started feverishly to work, the needles clicking, stitches dropping, the stocking leg trembling as it hung.
Although only ten years old Melvina had already "pieced" four patchwork quilts and quilted them; and her neat stitches were the admiration of all the women of the town.
Mrs. Lyon welcomed the little girls in a most friendly manner, and Anna was made happy when the minister's wife said that she really believed that Anna's stitches were as tiny and as neatly set as those of Melvina herself.
A fewstitches in cotton of the same color will hold the strips in place.
This is much nicer than counting the stitches on a paper pattern and a bit of canvas, and when done, produces a much better effect.
Then catch the silk firmly down through the holes in the tin, making long stitches on the wrong side, and small cross-stitches on the right, so as to form neat regular tufts.
More than once he had tied her thread in her needle for her when she was learning to sew, and it was his unfailing praise of her awkward attempts which encouraged her to I keep on until her stitches were really praiseworthy.
It was pleasant to be discussed when only pleasant things were said, and to have her neat stitches exclaimed over and praised as they were passed around.
The discontented seamstress that stitches away at my expensive dresses fancies they must shelter a happy heart, whose lot she covets; and all the while I am wishing for anything else in the world besides what I have.
I'll drop too many stitches while I talk, so I'll let you hold it for me.
This is what she said, and we assented; whereupon we could see her working upon her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.
This was what I said, and they assented; whereon I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches again by torch light.
This was what she said, and we assented; whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.
When enlarging a plain garment multiply the stitches required for 1 inch by the number of inches necessary for the extra width.
Placing herself under the lamp in Oliver's study, she took a few careful stitches in the centrepiece she was embroidering for Lucy, and then letting her needle fall, sat gazing into the wood-fire which crackled softly on the brass andirons.
I have had enough of my own company today, and I want you to pick up some stitches in my knitting.
Mrs. Meadowsweet sat upright in her chair, took out her knitting-bag, and proceeded to add a few stitches to Beatrice's quilt.
This quilt was composed of little squares of an elaborate pattern, with much honey-combing, and many other fancy and delicatestitches ornamenting it.
A good way to fill in these extra stitches is to bring the needle back, pointing toward the stem as at B.
Afterward fill in the light space by putting the needle in and out, pointing the stitches toward the stem, but taking them irregularly according to the space.
All good embroidery stitchesare or should be South Kensington stitches.
Tommy shook his head, and said dully: "It accounts for the stitchesbeing new.
I would rather you had given the master a cut of seven stitches than the servant one of fourteen," remarked the gentleman.
The chain weighs a thousand reals, and it may chance to remain with you altogether, as I have an idea that I shall want fourteen stitches more before long.
After that, if your worship would like to have another cut given to the master, of as manystitches as the space can contain, consider that they are already sewing up the wound.
TO RIB, is to knit plain and pearled stitches alternately.
The following are the principal stitches used in plain needlework.
Any number of stitches you please may be cast on, observing to have three for each pattern, and one over at each end.
Next make one, by passing the material before, and knitting one, pearl two stitches together, and make and knit a stitch as before.
In the next row, you reverse the work, knitting the stitches that were before slipped, and slipping the knitted ones.
In the next, the long stitchesmust come under the short ones; and this diversity must be kept up until all the rows are completed.
This is easily done: cast on 54 stitches on large needles, and pearl every other stitch, narrowing gradually toward the end.
Thus the stitches of each alternate row will correspond together.
The stitches must pass through the whole, and the edges of the quilt are to be secured by a binding proper for the purpose.
Make the loops, and work the first stitch as in the first pattern; then work twentystitches the same way to form the scollop.
Net the first row with the flat mesh, and increase eighteen stitches into each of the loops on the foundation.
Make one stitch, slip one, and knit two stitches together, putting the slipped stitch over the two knitted as one.
It is worked over cotton piping cord, the straight way of the corners; the stitches are over three threads.
On this foundation, a plain row is to be worked, and then a row in two colors, in two stitches of each alternately.
In doing the ninth row net two stitches plain, withdraw the mesh, net two more plain stitches, make a loose stitch, again withdraw the mesh, and finish with a plain stitch.
In the former case, make two stitches in the mesh; and in the latter, take two stitches together as one, or miss one.
The stitches are always a matter of life and of death, however innocent or trivial they may seem.
Yet into those innocent stitches there went the guilty secrets; and when the secrets were revealed the lives and deaths of men hung in the balance!
Make in the same manner as at the beginning, two or three stitches at the end of the row, within the edge of the hole.
Here, we find one of the lacestitches used instead of picots; the first row of fig.
Continue to decrease in this manner until the last stitches are reached.
This you will be able to do most easily by holding the work so as to make the stitches towards you.
This pattern may be worked in the same stitch as the previous one, either in Tunisian crochet or in any other of the stitches already described.
A]; the former being used for the darning and the almond-shaped stitches between; the latter for the buttonhole stitches.
After the 8th single one, make 3 plain stitcheson the 2 chain stitches of the connecting bar.
These stitches may be doubled, or you may make several trebles on each loop, or arrange the plain stitches in different ways.
Patience took up her needle again and began to count the stitches and embroider the letters, P.
Measure your stitches with great care, for you will likely begin it so near the border that you will have small space left for Arnold.
I wish you could but see how neatly she sews together the colors, and stitches on the designs.
Then, in one corner of the flag is a large piece of blue cloth, and sewed to it with Mistress Betsy's tiny stitches are thirteen stars.
Her needle flew in and out as she stitched together with even small stitches some long straight strips of red calico and white cotton.
Down the center, crude stitches of heavy cord showed where she had sewed the blanket to the mattress to divide it into two sections.
She yawned and nodded, fingering the stitches that still ran down the blanket to divide it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stitches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
