Misstitch

Some kind of embroidery occupied her fingers, and if she sometimes made a misstitch from the tears which dimmed her eyes, she patiently wiped them away and began again.

Miss Cynthia winced, made two misstitches, but worked on.

On the yellow silk sofa, scrawny Hepzibah made a misstitch on her sampler, and Mother Prudence made her take it out.

Emma's voice was direly earnest, but even so, she didn't look up from her needle, either because she was too nervous to meet Eliza's eye or because she didn't want to risk a misstitch.

Keep extra yarn available to replace strands that have been misstitched; ripping such misstitched strands out of a canvas invariably damages their fibers so they cannot be reused.

Even when the two fields were misstitched intentionally with errors of ±50 or ±100 μm, noticeable dents or protuberances were not observed at the stitched parts, and when the boundaries were accurately superimposed, almost no stiching traces were observed.

I often think back on this moment and wonder if the interruptions had caused her to misstitch me in some fundamental way.