fagoting

noun

variants or faggoting
Definition of fagotingnext
as in smocking

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  1. smocking
  2. needlepoint
  3. hemstitch
  4. cross-stitch
  5. crewel
Noun
  • The matching pink tea-length skirt featured Emily Adams Bode Aujla’s signature crafty details, with bands of smocking and cross-stitching at the waistband.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The smocking around the waistline creates a slimming effect and the ruffle sleeves lend to romantic detailing.
    Jean Chen Smith, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of smocking
Noun
  • There is also the option to try the ancient craft of paper marbling or needlepoint and embroidery in the estate’s historic Stables’ Tach Room.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The forecast had been partly sunny, but raindrops were doing needlepoint on the bridge club’s roof.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
Definition of needlepoint
Noun
  • Best: $130 to $190 400 to 600 thread count Egyptian or Pima cotton, some with windowpane or hemstitch detailing.
    Hannah Morrill, ELLE Decor, 15 Nov. 2018
  • For this place setting, Kate Goddard of Wild Sky Events paired a textured white charger with a silver crosshatch pattern, a white hemstitch napkin, and a handmade paper menu with dusty gray-blue calligraphy.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
Definition of hemstitch
Noun
  • The Scheels Sweater Weather Collection features four tumblers in royal maroon, peacock blue-green, baby pink with white polka dots and white with red cross-stitch patterns.
    Ada Tseng, WWD, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Tatiana tended to her large acreage of farmland and often spent her evenings knitting socks or crafting complex cross-stitch patterns of landscapes, animals and ballerinas.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of cross-stitch
Noun
  • Find these prints in tapestry, crewel work and cut velvet for the biggest impact.
    Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
  • Elizabeth Cooper, another Bay Area designer, highlighted furry alternatives such as alpaca (see the Arhaus pillow at right), while Bethesda, Md., designer Marika Meyer likes the tactility of crewel embroidery.
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
Definition of crewel
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