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- verb To
sew (something) using ablanket stitch
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Examples
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What made Warhol sit half-naked before Neel, exposing his sagging nipples and tea-coloured truss, blanket-stitch sutures embroidering his torso?
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Looking at the section " Gifts the children can make, " the pre-Wii generation was expected to know the difference between blanket-stitch and plain running stitch, and to be able to embroider flowers and leaves onto Hessian.
Present and Correct Lennox Morrison 2010
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Any one who was not a practised needleman and machinist was handicapped for a time, until he fell into the ways of the through-and-through and blanket-stitch, thimbles, shuttles, spools and many other things he had once affected to despise as belonging to the sphere of women's work.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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This and other one-edged stitches of the kind are sometimes called "blanket-stitch."
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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What made Warhol sit half-naked before Neel, exposing his sagging nipples and tea-coloured truss, blanket-stitch sutures embroidering his torso?
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You can’t whack a chunk out and then throw a blanket-stitch in to join the edges.
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