blanket stitch

By hand or machine, appliqué heart using narrow blanket stitch.

The blanket stitch is a stitch used to reinforce the edge of thick materials.

There are many styles of production blanket stitching, including rolled, narrow, with elastic, and traditional (see photos below).

Using coins as templates, they created circles and each piece was then stitched in blanket stitch fashion.

The blanket stitch is commonly used as a decorative stitch on an array of garments.

Examples of buttonhole or blanket stitches.

Additionally, the term "blanket stitch" has become a verb, describing the application of the stitch.

A blanket stitch, used to finish edges of wool blankets, is another common overcast stitch.

Blanket stitching, macrame and tie-dyed armbands were homey touches.

The work is then built up using a variety of stitches - the most basic being a variety of buttonhole or blanket stitch.

Lockstitch is used to loosely hold linings to curtains and is like a long loose blanket stitch.

It wasn't long before Brian was stuffing Jamie's organs back where they'd come from, using a well-practised blanket stitch to sew the body back up again.

Buttonhole stitch and the related blanket stitch are hand-sewing stitches used in tailoring, embroidery, and needle lace-making.

Types of stitches, including chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch- are the basis of embroidery.

He looked me up and down: the black Prada motorcycle boots, the pleated miniskirt, the moss-green fleece top embroidered with tiny flowers and edged with white blanket stitching.

To this day, Merrow retains a patent on the mechanism that creates the blanket stitch, renewing it with each redesign, which has occurred hundreds of times since its introduction in 1877.

Spread it in the centre of the pork fillets, then simply press each of them together and fix with string, which I tied in a sort of large, raggedy blanket stitch.

The famous Chanel suit, for instance, has a longer jacket that fits the body fluidly; the prototypical stiff braid borders have been replaced by contrasting embroidery that looks like blanket stitching.

Big labels like those on blankets were prominently placed on some skirts and dresses, and hems were sometimes finished with blanket stitching, to stress the notion of warm clothes for a cold winter.

When done by machine, it may be called a whip stitch or, sometimes, a Merrow Crochet Stitch, after the first sewing machine that was used to sew a blanket stitch.

Upper School (6th) Grey A-line skirt with white blanket stitch lining pockets, white rolled-up three quarter sleeve blouse, red tie and a house badge to be pinned upon the left corner of shirt.

The wall hangings, mostly edged in blanket stitch with a crochet border in a bright color, have a three-dimensional quality and are populated by little figures with stuffed heads and arms and legs of chain crochet.

These range from the fateful padlock, attached to a stained block of wood inserted into a small cabinet, to photographs and drawings combined into collages with childlike blanket stitching, along with the devotional books used by the Bishop Elder.

A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work-chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch-remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.