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basting stitch

NOUN
  1. a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

How To Use basting stitch In A Sentence

  • Firmly baste, too; none of your enormous floppysloppy basting stitches that look like someone left a skipping rope lying around.
  • Make long basting stitches to identify centerlines, pocket or tab placements, hemlines and topstitching guides.
  • As you place the sheet moss against the wire frame, attach it with thin wire, stitching the moss onto the frame with a traditional basting stitch.
  • Japanese clothing is sewed with what we call a basting stitch, but it is as durable as it could be if sewed with the smallest of stitches. Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
  • Indeed, not much more had been done towards making them than putting in what I believe is known as basting stitches. Clarimonde: A Tale of New Orleans Life, and of the Present War. By a Member of the N. O. Washington Artillery.
  • Stitch the buttonhole as usual, removing any basting stitches when finished.
  • Substitute basting tape or basting-adhesive glue stick for basting stitches whenever practical, even for holding zippers in place.
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