The stitching wears through as soon as the hair comes off and frequent mending is necessary.
Ah, Rachel, you're made for something better than this; stitching away day after day, and not a gown or a bonnet fit to put on.
When he thought of it he wished that he might be sitting forever on that string-piece, fishing with the rag-cage, particularly when he was tired of stitching and turning over, a whole long day.
So Bartle went into Grice's service when Jeckie and Rushie started stitching in Sicaster, and thenceforward he turned up in Finkle Street every Sunday afternoon, to see how things were going on with his old employers.
Over the interminable stitching which went on in the living-room of this new abode, Jeckie brooded long and heavily over the defection of Albert Grice.
She was stitching vamps by the piece, and earning a considerable amount.
Then she recommenced her stitching without a word.
As she stood working at her machine, stitching linings to vamps, she kept a sharply listening ear for what went on about her, but there was very little to hear after work had fairly commenced and the great place was in full hum.
Her hands usually spend but nine hours a day at labor, as stitching shoes is heavy work.
Singer's machines can do all the stitching of twelve pairs of cloth pantaloons in a day; and a coat that formerly required two days to make by hand, can now be made in one sixth of a day.
The stitching is done by machine, but the ornamental part by hand.
Girls are paid 10 cents a dozen for basting, and 6 cents per dozen for stitching them on machines.
I heard a shoemaker say he knew one sewer that received forty cents for a week's work, stitching sixty pairs of gaiters.
In Newark, Bridgeport, and New Haven, much of the stitching for the South is done by machines, and women are employed.
He pays a woman $80 a year for stitching by machine the edges of the sails.
I employ ten women running sewing machines, binding by hand, and stitching with wax-thread and awl.
The employer told me most of his stitching is done by machine.
It requires but a short time to learn to do the stitchingonly (which he has done by hand), but about a year to learn to do all parts.
Some of the stitching is done by machinery--some by hand.
Part of the stitching is done by hand, and part by machinery.
New York, has her stitching and seaming done by machines.
In Philadelphia, flag stitching is done by machines.
They had forgotten her sitting over at the second window also stitching on a petticoat, also for Selina.
Darling Auntie, who had acknowledged the meager satisfaction of a life given up to stitching underclothes and polishing brasses!
By-and-by the stitching became so palpable a failure that Miss Kitty Kimmeens folded her work neatly, and put it away in its box, and gave it up.
However, Miss Kimmeens having finished her inspection without making any such uncomfortable discovery, sat down in her tidy little manner to needlework, and began stitchingaway at a great rate.
She bravely persevered with her work, cutting-out and machining and stitching from early morning until darkness descended.
As they were sitting, stitching away, their needles whizzing at each other like a couple of locomotives engaged in conversation, Susan opened the door.
Our friend helped himself to a needle and thread, and taking one of the bags, planted himself bolt upright opposite to Miss Silence, and pinning his work to his knee, commenced stitching at a rate fully equal to her own.
Lastly he washeth the Wound with warm Wine, and dispatcheth the Gastroraphy or Stitchingup of the Belly, without sowing the Matrix.
Unless, in such a case, the first stitching is of such compact character as to want no strengthening, it amounts almost to a sin against practicality not to take advantage of the second stitching to make it firmer.
The stuff is not very sympathetic, and the stitching has a way of sinking into the pile, and being, as it were, drowned in it.
These silken tresses are then caught down and kept, I will not say close to the ground, but in their place upon it, by lines of stitching in the cross direction.
Stitching is sometimes done not merely over stitches, but upon the surface of them, not penetrating the ground-stuff.
Embroidresses have a clever way of untwisting a cord before each stitch and twisting it again after stitching through it--between the strands, that is to say, in which the stitching is lost.
For stitching through, there is a finer thread, called "tambour.
Stitching over stitching was resorted to whenever elaboration was the fashion; but the simpler and more direct method is the best.
It looks like rather coarse stitching in the direction of the forms, and expresses shading very well.
These underlying cords must be firmly sewn on to the linen ground, and if the stitching follows the direction of the twist in them, the round surface is not so likely to be roughened by it.
As the concentric rings of stitching become smaller, you make, of course, shorter stitches, and you need no longer pierce the thread of the long stitch.
The stitching down makes usually a pattern more or less conspicuous.
It would be folly now, as it may have been in old times, for our girls to spend their hours and try their eyes over back-stitching for collars, etc.
She reckoned that she knew what dressmaking and millinery were, and her little fund of expert knowledge caused her to picture a whole necessary cityful of girls stitching, stitching, and stitching day and night.
Work the scroll inside of stitching solid with 645 in satin stitch.
A little piece of double feather-stitching has been separately worked for you to see how it is done.
The illustration clearly shows where the feather-stitching should be added.
When you come to the corner from which you started, you must join the two ends of the border, and this is done just the same as the other corners, by first creasing and then stitching on the diagonal.
All about how to do hem-stitching will be found on page 30.
Then you could have a white border with blue stitching on it.
She had never made over one or two white Marseilles vests, and found that she was not so well skilled in the art of neat and accuratestitching as was required to give the garment a beautiful and workmanlike appearance.
The stitching on the bosoms, collars, and wristbands isn't nearly so well done.
A certain amount of folding and stitching has to be done by men at night, and he would say that about 2 or 3 men were employed at this for about one hour five nights in the week.
One stitching machine is dangerous, the forewoman said; the folded sheet has to be pushed along with the hand and there is the chance of the hand being caught.
All sorts of folding, sewing and stitching (by machine mostly), eyeletting, etc.
Without the device of the stitching machine the only way in which large quantities of such ephemeral publications could be placed quickly on the market would be by the employment of a very large staff of women.
Take as an example the wire-stitching machine used in the production of tens of thousands of penny pocket time-tables and diaries.
At the toe and on the outer side of each shoe this stitching had been dragged until it was visible on a close inspection of the join.
In both the shoes I was examining this stitching had parted, and the leather below had given way.
It is at this point that the strain comes when a tight shoe of this sort is forced upon the foot, and it is usually guarded with a strong stitching across the bottom of the opening.
And it was while thus engaged that my eye fell upon a portion of the stitching in the belt that had the appearance of being newer than--or perhaps it would be more correct to say of different workmanship from the rest.
The belt was made of two thicknesses of leather stitched together all along the top and bottom edge; and it was a portion of this stitching along the top edge that struck me as differing somewhat in appearance from the rest.
Although beta is at a higher entropy level than our universe, we can't use that energy, except to provide power for the stitchingprocess itself.
With our example to guide them, the invaders can usestitching to escape us as easily as we can use it to escape them.
And once we were in continuous stitching operations, any invader, as you suggested, could join the system only by synchronizing the transmitter in his ship exactly with all of our synchronized transmitters.
By stitching the Solar System, and the other systems of our confederation in and out of the alpha plane, we should be able to gain the time necessary for contact with the enemy and make peace with him.
Stitching our way to their planets in our spaceships, of course.
John Bristol, a few days after the continuous stitching started, was relaxing lazily on the sofa in his living room when there was a sudden pounding on the door.
You just think of the ship as a needlestitching its way back and forth into and out of our universe.
We almost had it when we talked of stitching Earth out of reach," John answered eagerly.
If the Oracle means anything at all by his statement, I suppose it means that we can use stitching to help defend ourselves, just as the invaders are using it to attack us.
Of course, one observer couldn't watch both the disappearance and reappearance of the same ship, and I assume the observers have the same velocity in 'alpha' as does the stitching ship.
This time you did so well that I may still remember what stitching is by tomorrow.
And while in the inter-planar region it cannot be detected, even by someone else stitching in the same region of 'alpha' space.
What if we physically remove our planets, by stitchingthem away from the Sun?
It was obviously patched, and it is now known that two seamstresses were employed during the preceding day in mending it, and some stitching even was found necessary after it had arrived at the Observatory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stitching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
