[f. STITCH v.1 or STITCHER: see -ERY 2. (App. coined by Shaks.)] Needlework.
1607. Shaks., Cor., I. iii. 75. Come, lay aside your stitchery.
1780. C. Burney, in Early Diary F. Burney (1889), II. 289. I have really been so hard fag’d with stitchery in new rigging papa’s old shifets (as Mrs. Market calls em).
1897. L. F. Day, Windows, 147. As well might the needlewoman go to a glazier to design her stitchery.
