ravelly

I have an older knit type blanket (bought, not made) which is beginning to get very ravelly and snagged, so that might go ...

Bits and pieces (for lack of a better title) katelnorth 2008

One thing I hate about "home-sewn" garments is the ravelly, fraying inside.

the next frontier - A Dress A Day 2009

I seamed the bottom this picture is fuzzy and then double-zigzagged the edges, because this fabric is a bit ravelly.

February 2007 2007

I seamed the bottom this picture is fuzzy and then double-zigzagged the edges, because this fabric is a bit ravelly.

make a three-panel skirt have pockets - A Dress A Day 2007

Then the swift glow faded, and with it the ravelly blue phosphorescence that had guided their feet.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

He considered a little ravelly strip along one of his cuffs solicitously.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

Ah, but the diks an 'the water-lets, they twists the roads about as ravelly as witch-yarn on the spindles.

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

One could take them for threads of wool like those which you pull out of an old ravelly stocking.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Ah, but the diks an’ the water-lets, they twists the roads about as ravelly as witch-yarn on the spindles.

Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900