Possible Clues:

• It would, by the sound of it, appear not so much without a join
• Smooth
• Of cloth, made without a join or stitches
• Appear 'lacking', as one might say, without a stitch on
• Flowing drink left out smells awful
• Sounds like it doesn't amount to much and won't have you in stitches
• Smooth colonel finally entering main eating-place
• Where cod is found on first menu at takeaway - that won't have you needing stitches!
• Unbroken, flowing
• What the coal company didn't want to be?