Misstitched

Even our benchwarmers had their visible flaws: warts, rashes, oozing sores, and misstitched scars.

For example, if I were to say, "This shirt from T.J. Maxx doesn't fit right," it wouldn't really be a White Whine because T. J. Maxx is an affordable store that sells affordable, misstitched, stained clothing in unmarked piles under dead mosquito-filled fluorescent lights (can you tell my mom made me shop at T. J. Maxx a lot as a kid?).

And piecing together the evidence —the disorderly kitchen, the misstitched quilt pieces, and the dead canary—the women come to believe that John Wright broke the bird's neck, just as he had broken his wife's spirit.

Aunt Libby increasingly made mistakes in her sewing, threw four yards of misstitched dimity into the trash, then cried.

Once, when she returned to her historical fiction after an intense period of political activity, she called her creative work “my miserable misstitched writing” (Diary, November 13, 1914).

Here again we have the passionate love of beauty, this time beauty of form, as desired by a misstitched, gnarled, crooked stableman and odd-job man attached to a travelling circus:

He did not recognize its mis-stitched monograph.