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  • present participle of stitch.
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stitching

[stich-ing] / ˈstɪtʃ ɪŋ /




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“We’ve got all this amazing costuming that’s using medieval-type of stitching and real craftsmanship. One of the greatest experiences in my whole career is being able to wear these people’s art.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Instead of matching the thread colour to the garment, they make the mend highly decorative using geometric patterns in large white stitching.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Locked away in their quarantine pod, the isolation proved the perfect opportunity to comb through hours of archival footage, stitching a story from B-roll and memories, both of which Eleanor had plenty of.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

As a result, its surface is uneven, with holes, patches and the three-dimensional effects of the stitching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

There was no stitching, no seam, and yet she knew that behind the smooth continuous fabric was the real self—was it her soul?—which took the decision to cease pretending, and gave the final command.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But that jacket gets mere seconds of airtime before it is on to the next jacket, blue, featuring whimsical stitchings of houses, a garment she describes as reminiscent of something you’d find at Anthropologie.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

While recuperating from the operation, Morrow began embroidering, producing semiabstract stitchings of body parts and shapes that are grouped together on one wall.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

She tripped ahead in a solid but elegant pair of walking-shoes and was drawing on a tan glove with mannish stitchings over the back.

From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller

Already I am considering a silk-lined cape, and it is settled that my gloves are to have black stitchings.

From Not that it Matters by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Cut between these, leaving two stitchings each side of the hole.

From Things Mother Used to Make by Lydia Maria Gurney


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