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9 unusual facts about Stitch


Cross-stitch

In the United States, the earliest known cross-stitch sampler is currently housed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Beadwork and other embellishments such as paillettes, charms, small buttons and speciality threads of various kinds may also be used.

Embroidery software

While a large majority of embroidery software is specific to machine embroidery, there is also software available for use with hand embroidery, such as Cross-stitch.

Jeff Nimoy

He will be directing the English adaptation of the Disney anime Stitch!.

Jess Winfield

After departing from The Reduced Shakespeare Company, Winfield served as a writer for the Daytime Emmy Award-winning series Teacher's Pet (starring Nathan Lane and Jerry Stiller), as well as for the animated features Stitch! The Movie and Leroy and Stitch for Disney.

Lock-N-Stitch

They are punched or wire Electric Discharge Machine (EDM) specially cut from aircraft quality steel plate 4130.

Prasad Barve

He’s also done Hindi voiceover roles for famous cartoons and Japanese anime like in Scooby Doo, Stitch, Pokémon and Perman.

Stitch! The Movie

Having locked Hämsterviel in handcuffs, Lilo, Stitch and Sparky short-circuit Gantu's ship causing it to crash near a waterfall on Kauai.

Stitch's Supersonic Celebration

During "Stitch's Supersonic Celebration", guests celebrated "Galaxy Day" by singing and dancing along to an odd mixture of popular music, including Elvis tunes, The Future Has Arrived from Meet the Robinsons and "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".


Debbie Stoller

Stoller has appeared as special guest at the Dutch Stitch 'n Bitch Dag in Rotterdam each year since 2006. She made her debut appearance at a UK knitting show on November 10, 2007 as special guest for I Knit London's UK Stitch 'n Bitch Day 2007 where she hosted a workshop, fashion parade and booklaunch for the fourth in her Stitch 'n BItch book series: Son of Stitch 'n Bitch.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Since Frankenstein's hands were badly burned in the name of science (possibly in The Evil of Frankenstein or Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed), the shabby stitch-work was done by Sarah (Madeline Smith), a beautiful mute girl who assists the surgeon, and who is nicknamed "Angel".

Holbein stitch

The stitch is named after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), a 16th-century portrait painter best known for his paintings of Henry VIII and his children, almost all of whom are depicted wearing clothing decorated with blackwork embroidery.

Jaynestown

After tossing Simon aside, Stitch addresses the crowd, telling them what really happened, and how Jayne's Robin Hood-like act was just a mistake.

Michael Yingling

Michael Yingling (born July 10, 1972 in Portland, Oregon) is an American actor and the official soundalike for the Disney character Stitch.

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Algernon Stitch lived in a "superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor" in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938).

Peyote stitch

The name "peyote stitch" derives from the use of this stitch to decorate objects used in peyote ceremonies by members of the Native American Church.

Rod Norman

Rod is later forced to act against his principles, when he is threatened by Brad Williams (Jonathan Stratt), a dodgy member of The Firm, and is forced to stitch up local publican Den Watts (Leslie Grantham).

Suture

Surgical suture, a stitch used by doctors and surgeons to hold tissue together

Tapestry crochet

The crochet hook may be inserted under both top loops or under one loop (also called Fair Isle crochet); colors may be changed before the stitch is completed or afterwards, all of which produce different results.

The Winter Murder Case

"The decline in the last six Vance books is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them one more stitch in his literary shroud was not overstating the case." wrote Julian Symons in Bloody Murder.

Tom Holloway

Holloway's plays have been performed across Australia and internationally, including "Beyond the Neck" at Belvoir St Theatre (2007), "Red Sky Morning" at Red Stitch Theatre (2008-9) and regional tour, and "Don't Say The Words" (2009) and "And No More Shall We Part" (2011) at Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney, and Hampstead Theatre, London.

Tori Carrington

More Than Words: Volume 3 (2003) (with Karen Harper, Catherine Mann, Kasey Michaels and Susan Wiggs) (Homecoming Season / Find the Way / Here Comes the Heroes / Touched by Love / Stitch in Time)

We Stitch These Wounds

Three of the songs—"We Stitch These Wounds," "Knives and Pens," and "The Mortician's Daughter"—had been previously self-released on their EP, Sex & Hollywood, but were re-recorded and re-released.


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