Sentence examples for stem stitch from inspiring English sources
noun
An embroidery stitch, derived from backstitch, in which each stitch overlaps the previous stitch to one side, forming a twisted line of stitching, with the thread passing below the needle.
These include a stole and maniple ornamented with figures of prophets outlined in stem stitch and filled with split stitch, with halos in gold thread worked with underside couching.
Stitches reinforcing the seams of a garment in the Sutton Hoo ship burial may have been intended as decoration, and so be classed as embroidery, and fragments of a scrolling border worked in stem stitch were recovered from a grave in Kempston, Bedfordshire.
This famous narrative of the Conquest is not a true woven tapestry but an embroidered hanging worked in wool yarn on a tabby-woven linen ground using outline or stem stitch for lettering and the outlines of figures, and couching or laid work for filling in figures.
Embroider the face: use six strands of threads of woven spider wheel to make eyes; use six strands of threads of stem stitch to make whiskers; use six strands of threads of satin stitch to make nose; use six strands of threads of stem stitch to make lips.
There are also naturalistic floral sprays with tendrils and leaves worked in satin and stem stitches.
With 186 countries present, the US spying on delegations, and with Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger and various rock stars in town, a secret agreement forged by the US, Britain and others to stem emissions by stitching up poor countries spectacularly blew up after a leak.
The first charges were brought the following year against a physician and another man, after the physician sutured a partially infibulated woman with one stitch to stem bleeding after opening her for childbirth.
He was always suspicious of the press, a wariness that stemmed from being stitched up by the Daily Express when he was in Brazil in 1974.
Don't use clamps to pull the stems ends together, stitches only!
Some good stitches are seed stitch, basketweave stitch, and garter stitch.
Scientists grew replacement heart tissue in the laboratory from stem cells taken from his bone marrow, and stitched it into the diseased left ventricle, after removing the dead and damaged tissue.
