Stitching

Examples

• Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mamma, you will keep stitching, stitching away. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The machine first cuts the buttonhole, then transfers it to the stitching devices, which stitch and bar the buttonhole, finishing it entirely in an automatic manner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A compact little stitching apparatus, not larger than a tea-pot, is actuated by an endless belt from an electric motor at one end. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If only a few thousand were printed, these signatures could be collected together by hand, and then fed into the wire-stitching machine, also by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I dream of it night after night; I think of it when I sit stitching at my work. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove, continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His mother's eyes were bent on her work, at which she was now stitching away busily. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Typist: Nadine