Wiktionary
cross-stitches
n. (cross-stitch English) vb. (en-third-person singularcross-stitch)
Usage examples of "cross-stitches".
For the sin of disbelief, the dark-skinned priests sewed the eyes of heretics open, pinning back their eyelids against their brow bones with cross-stitches of black silk, so that the heretics might see the face of God as they died.
It was an ornamental affair, what with black lozenges and yellow dots, and here and there at regular intervals cubes and cross-stitches of amber, such as the humans use in rug-making or working samplers.
Dio tried her best to show me, but I never could make a French knot, and my cross-stitches were never even.