What is "stitching"

Usage examples of "stitching".

The Collectivist who drove it on his suicide mission, brave with drink and the assuredness of death, had rammed the blockade at Sly Station and powered on toward Spit Bazaar, but the militia had detonated the train as it approached, tearing a hole in the stitching of arches that went the length of New Crobuzon.

The two men sat, wrapped in a companionable silence and a great deal of smoke from their pipes while Mevrouw Van Minn en sat at her pretty little rosewood worktable, stitching at her gros-point.

Lauren wore cowboy boots that had been polished and repolished to a deep black-brown, with a pattern of fanciful stitching of lazy interlocking hearts running up the sides.

The air over the cities was hazy with industrial gases, and Schirra could see bridges across the bays, stitchings of stone and iron.

But sometimes Pauline would throw down her stitching in amused impatience, and, going to her dainty secretaire, write me a little message in the simplest baby French--which I would answer in French which would knit her brows for a moment or two, and then send her off in peals of laughter.

He treated the wound with a sulphonamide derivative in routine procedure, cleaned and sterilized the edges gently, applied clamps carefully, removed the pin, and began stitching with the complicated little motor needleone of the few gadgets for which he had any real appreciation.

Usually a woman passes her skills on to her children and grandchildren but Fralie has no time, and not much interest in working leather -- she likes stitching and beadwork -- and she has no daughters.

In total solitude, Jess sat for hours stitching the intricate designs, sketching with his mind.

On the walls, prints of Victorian etchings of life on the island, the natives all done up in Lapp clothes -- huge fur-lined anoraks with fancy stitching -- harpoons in hand, sledges, dogs, whale hunting, church, life.

Now she took the trousers from Sir Jasper, and quickly turning them inside out blew the cigar ash from the surface of the cloth, and commenced to work upon the hole, gathering its edges together and stitching it in the manner of a sutured wound, this being much the quickest and neatest way under the prevailing circumstances.

Out there, stitching up the punters, shafting the oppos, getting stuck into the real job.

The ratchety ringing sheared a hole through the stitching noises crickets made in the yard, but after a pause they started in again.

Hickson held the thumbstall close to his right eye to judge the neatness of his stitching.

The clothing was adorned with intricate stitching in metallic gold thread, a precise reproduction of the royal crest of Trios, repeated countless times down the long sleeves of the open-throated shirt and the side of the leggings down to where they disappeared into soft yet sturdy black knee-high boots.

He was dressed in white raiment with coral stitching, and in the clear windowlight, with his panthershadowed hair and dusky skin, he seemed to be glowing.