CROSS-STITCH • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Cross-stitch

"Cross-stitch" Quotes from Famous Books

... chairs and furniture had to be turned by hand; for that reason people who made them took more pains than they do now, so that they would last a long time, and only the colours in the brocades had faded and the silk worn away in the cross-stitch ...

— The Pigeon Tale • Virginia Bennett

... myself for her party, not expecting to act that night, I cannot decently get off. Lady Macdonald's dinner party is put off; so until Saturday, when I play Beatrice, I shall spend my time in practicing, reading, writing (not arithmetic), walking, working cross-stitch, and similar young-ladyisms. ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... upstairs, and doing her work. Even Mrs. Umfraville's kind ways could not restore her; she only hung her head and mumbled when she was asked to show her work, and did not so much as know what was to become of her piece of cross-stitch when it ...

— Countess Kate • Charlotte M. Yonge

... can be joined to make a hammock pillow. By stringing a close warp with white or colored wicking and weaving over and under one string with the same material, a coarse canvas can be made, upon which the children can cross-stitch a pretty border and center piece, or an all-over pattern by copying the kindergarten designs, or even initials and monograms. Most of the canvas sold at the stores, even the old Java canvas of our childhood days, is too fine ...

— Hand-Loom Weaving - A Manual for School and Home • Mattie Phipps Todd