crotchet

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Ms Crofts described the crotchet part of the project as a "labour of love", and said she took it with her wherever she went so she could work on it during spare moments.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023

It’s also even in more mundane ways, in cross-stitch, in crotchet and quilting, creating beauty literally from the scraps on the margins.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2022

But then, each of the dead has some crotchet or obsession.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2015

"I can't read or write music," she said, "but if I were a musician, I'd have put a crotchet here instead of a quaver."

From The Guardian • May 8, 2013

Illustration is a mania of the day—a crotchet of a public whose reading appetite, it is to be feared, is in no very healthy state.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various