misstitch

plural misstitches

1. An improperly sewn stitch.

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

   1901, John Trotwood Moore, A Summer Hymnal: A Romance of Tennessee, page 108

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   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.

   1869, Metta Fuller Victor, The Figure Eight

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

   2010, Marion Moore Hill, Deadly Will

   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.

   2019, Melissa de la Cruz, All for One, page 159

present singular third person misstitches · participle present misstitching · participle past misstitched · past misstitched

1. To make an error in stitching.

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

   2008, Elle - Issues 273-275, page 175

   2 more examples

   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.

   1973, The Custom Look, page 192

   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.

   2001, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, page 1513