Definition of "blanket-stitch" []

• To sew with a buttonhole stitch. (verb-transitive)

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• "What made Warhol sit half-naked before Neel, exposing his sagging nipples and tea-coloured truss, blanket-stitch sutures embroidering his torso?"
• "Looking at the section " Gifts the children can make, " the pre-Wii generation was expected to know the difference between blanket-stitch and plain running stitch, and to be able to embroider flowers and leaves onto Hessian."
• "Any one who was not a practised needleman and machinist was handicapped for a time, until he fell into the ways of the through-and-through and blanket-stitch, thimbles, shuttles, spools and many other things he had once affected to despise as belonging to the sphere of women's work."