Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Needlework; sewing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Needlework; in modern times, the labor or drudgery of sewing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Needlework; -- in contempt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun fine work done by stitching

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun needlework on which you are working with needle and thread

Etymologies

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stitch +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • I have 16 different versions of that collection, with my favorite being the Donna Green illustrated book (my first one, from my Grandparents when I was 10) and my most interesting being a selection of the poetry done in stitchery.

    Angels' Blood Countdown: Catherine Spangler - Touched By Light ARC Nalini Singh 2009

  • Let your intuition guide you and allow it to emerge from the stitchery.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Beautifully installed along a winding corridor, as though but recently resurrected from their packing crates, these eye-popping exemplars of stitchery and design are at one level a sheer aesthetic pleasure for the eye, on the other a social and economic history of Europe in its heyday.

    Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA Peter Clothier 2010

  • Beautifully installed along a winding corridor, as though but recently resurrected from their packing crates, these eye-popping exemplars of stitchery and design are at one level a sheer aesthetic pleasure for the eye, on the other a social and economic history of Europe in its heyday.

    Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA Peter Clothier 2010

  • Beautifully installed along a winding corridor, as though but recently resurrected from their packing crates, these eye-popping exemplars of stitchery and design are at one level a sheer aesthetic pleasure for the eye, on the other a social and economic history of Europe in its heyday.

    Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA Peter Clothier 2010

  • Edie took the abstract-shaped piece of stitchery, examined it, and turned it over in her hands a few times.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Let your intuition guide you and allow it to emerge from the stitchery.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • “A fine job of stitchery,” she commented with a brief smile.

    The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six xcpublishing 2009

  • Edie took the abstract-shaped piece of stitchery, examined it, and turned it over in her hands a few times.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Beautifully installed along a winding corridor, as though but recently resurrected from their packing crates, these eye-popping exemplars of stitchery and design are at one level a sheer aesthetic pleasure for the eye, on the other a social and economic history of Europe in its heyday.

    Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA Peter Clothier 2010

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  • "VALERIA: Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play the idle huswife with me this afternoon."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 28, 2009