half cross stitch

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   a single cross stitch at a diagonal

   Broadercross-stitch

Questions about half cross stitch

What does half cross stitch mean?

half cross stitch means "a single cross stitch at a diagonal".

Is half cross stitch a common word?

half cross stitch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.