petit point

There’s a hard little cushion on it, with a petit point cover: faith, in square print, surrounded by a wreath of lilies. faith is a faded blue, the leaves of the lilies a dingy green.

Guenever was doing some petit point in the gloomy room, which she hated doing.

John Thomas Paradiso stitches pansies on leather in what looks like petit point.

The average English palate would shudder at the flavour of aioli, but it would be charmed by the insertion of that petit point d'ail which turned mere goodness into triumph and laurelled perfection.

This method was much practised in France, and the term applied to it in that country, “au petit point,” has become generally used.