hem-stitching

I don't know anyone who does perpendicular overcast as the standard that would mean conducting the needle diagonally through the fabric, which is not the easiest way, especially when hem-stitching.

St. Elisabeth questions a stitch in time 2008

I don't know anyone who does perpendicular overcast as the standard that would mean conducting the needle diagonally through the fabric, which is not the easiest way, especially when hem-stitching.

Archive 2008-12-01 a stitch in time 2008

Darning, button-hole making and hem-stitching were taught in one class.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 Various

Exactly this method is used at the present day, and is known as hem-stitching and fine-drawing.

Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes

This era of sewing machines has in a great measure ruled out the old - fashioned hem-stitching, over-casting, herin-boning, darning and so on.

A grandmother's recollections of Dixie, 1912

"I have wanted to see you to ask you to join my society, the 'Daughters of Duty,'" she went on, her eyes on a piece of fine white damask she was hem-stitching.

The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Down stairs her father read the paper and her mother sat near the big table, hem-stitching.

Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

Make six rows of hem-stitching, as in fig. 55; the first and sixth rows to serve as a finish, above and below.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

In the old, elaborate, linen needlework, we often meet two kinds of hem-stitching seldom found in modern books on needle-work.

Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

It is edged on both sides with a row of hem-stitching.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850