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Stitches (Embroidery, Knitting, Crewelwork) Quiz

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gyroman | 10:02 Sun 12th Dec 2021 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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All the answers are types of stitches - eg chain, satin, blanket, fly etc etc. most clues have a cryptic element.

I have three left out of 50 and am now stumped…..

32. Another name for a story
33. Thames, Amazon, Nile (I can’t find any reference to a ‘river’ stitch anywhere…)
44. Friends and smocks

Thanks for any help!
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33. running ???
33 could be Flower stitch another name for lazy daisy. Flower is often a clue for rivers in cryptic crosswords
32. is there one called yarn stitch???
32 Tail stitch
Friends and smocks might at a stretch be Gathering but I have checked my embroidery books and I can't get closer.
iff 44 is mate and locks ...mattress?
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Thank you Mark - I like ‘flower’ for 33 (even though another clue has lazy daisy as an answer). ‘Yarn’ for 32 is a good thought, obvious relevance but I can’t find a specific stitch. And yes, I think ‘gathering’ makes sense for 44 - from my limited knowledge, gathering is what you do to create smocking thought Incant find a specific stitch name. Many thanks!
Tail stitch and river stitch are used in crochet
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LOL me saying ‘thank you Mark’ - as in ‘Mark as best answer’!

Thanks all who responded. This is not my field at all but I struggled to find ‘tail’ and ‘river’ as named stitches on Google….
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Ah thanks Tilly2. Now all I need to justify is the alternative spelling tail / tale versus ‘yarn’ which is better as a story, but again not an explicit stitch that I can find!
Can you help me with
Start and finish with angler's rod
Cast on/off ?
Thanks for that I was only thinking types of stitches
33.Stretch stitch?

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