Meanings of overcasting in anglès

Sew on with overcasting stitch, taking two stitches in same hole.

The two little girls, the younger only three years, are both overcasting seams.

Trim off edges and finish with binding or close overcasting.

Sew the medium-sized flowers and the small ones to the big ones with overcasting stitches.

Turn the velvet over the edge one-fourth inch and sew down with an overcasting stitch.

I'm going in to do overcasting as hard as I can, because I hate that the worst.

The storm had grown more violent, and great clouds, ominous with rain, were now overcasting the sky.

Linings: Waist (practice materials): basting, stitching, pressing, binding, boning (whalebone, featherbone); hooks and eyes; facing; overcasting.

The braids are joined together where they meet with a few overcasting stitches, as shown in the illustration.

Sew to the wire closely with an overcasting stitch or with a running stitch just inside of the wire.

During the ceremony of unveiling the monument a dark, ragged storm cloud hung over the Aztec mountain, fast overcasting the sky.

If you wish to make them very slender at the bottom, you can finish them off with a few overcasting stitches.

His moods were a kind of unsettled weather, either wind-whipped and stormy with crazy words or becalmed by an overcasting silence.

David heard the terms rolling and whipping, and felling and overcasting and hemstitching and herring-boning which were an unknown tongue to him.

Stitches and special forms of sewing: Basting, running, overhanding, overcasting, hemming, blind stitching, sewing on buttons (two hole, four hole), buttonholes, featherstitching.

Before they had finished their repast an east wind was moaning and sighing in the trees, and a thin scud of clouds overcasting the sky.