stitching

It has a crest that reads NHS embroidered in pale yellow stitching, and brassy state championship pins that look vibrant against the jacket’s black fabric.

Who could have foretold that all those years of stitching pithy wise sayings onto pillows would prove so useful?

The stitching was far from expert, and the pillow was uneven in shape.

Of course, there is such a thing as bad advice, and not every pithy nugget of wisdom is worth stitching onto a pillow.

The upshot is that Powell faces a near-impossible task of stitching together a typically broad consensus when it doesn’t exist.