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CHAIN STITCH:

is a sewing and embroidery technique in which a series of looped stitches form a chain-like pattern. Chain stitch is an ancient craft - examples of surviving Chinese chain stitch embroidery worked in silk threadhave been dated to the Warring States period (5th-3rd century BC). Handmade chain stitch embroidery does not require that the needle pass through more than one layer of fabric. For this reason the stitch is an effective surface embellishment near seams on finished fabric.

Because chain stitches can form flowing, curved lines, they are used in many surface embroidery styles that mimic "drawing" in thread. Chain stitches are also used in making tambour lace, needle lace, macram and crochet.

APPLICATIONS: Hand embroidery Chain stitch and its variations are fundamental to embroidery traditions of many cultures, including Kashmiri numdahs, Iranian Resht work, Central Asian suzani, Hungarian Kalotaszeg "written embroidery , Jacobean embroidery, and crewelwork. Machine sewing and embroidery Chain stitch was the stitch used by early sewing machines; however, as it is easily unraveled from fabric, this was soon replaced with the more secure lockstitch. Machine embroidery in chain stitch, often in traditional hand-worked crewel designs, is found on curtains, bed linens, and upholstery fabrics.

Variants Hand Variants "Drawing" or outlining in basic chain stitch Variations of the basic chain stitch include: Back-stitched chain stitch Braided stitching Cable chain stitch Knotted chain stitch Open chain stitch Petal chain stitch Rosette chain stitch Singalese chain stitch Twisted chain stitch Wheat-ear stitch Zig-zag chain stitch

HAND STITCH VARIATIONS:

BASIC CHAIN STITCH

BRAID STITCH

CABLE CHAIN STITCH

KNOTTED CHAIN STITCH

OPEN CHAIN STITCH

PETAL CHAIN STITCH

ROSETTE CHAIN STITCH

ROSETTE CHAIN LINE

SINGALESE CHAIN STITCH

TWISTED CHAIN STITCH

WHEAT EAR STITCH

ZIG-ZAG CHAIN STITCH

MACHINE STITCH VARIATIONS:

BASIC CHAIN STITCH

DOUBLE CHAIN STITCH

Bring the threaded needle from the back side of the fabric to the front of the fabric. Re-insert the needle into the top side of the fabric where it came out of the fabric, pointing out the back side of the fabric. Bring the needle point back up through the right side of the fabric a short distance from where the needle went into the fabric. The distance is a variable which depends on the look you are trying to create. Wrap the thread around the point of the needle as shown in the photo, so that the needle will come through a loop of thread. Pull the needle through the fabric and loop, maintaining the thread loop by not pulling the thread overly tight.

To continue chain stitching, insert the needle where it came out of the fabric, pointing down to the wrong side of the fabric. Bring the point of the needle back out of the fabric the same distance a you did the first stitch. Loop the thread around the needle point. Pull the needle all the way through the fabric, maintaining the loop by not pulling the thread too tightly. Repeat until you have sewn the desired amount of chain stitches.

Insert the point of the needle just on the outside of the thread loop so the thread will cover the end of the loop when it is tightened. Push the needle through to the back side of the fabric. Anchor the thread on the back side of the fabric.

STEM STITCHES:
Stem stitch is an ancient technique; surviving mantles embroidered with stem stitch by the Paracas people ofPeru are dated to the first century BCE. Stem stitch is used in the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth probably dating to the later 1070s, for lettering and to outline areas filled with couching or laidwork.

The stem stitch may be best described as a long stitch forward on the surface, and a shorter one backward on the under side of the fabric, the stitches following each other almost in line from left to right.

VARIATIONS:
Identified by the author as the straight stem stitch, this stitch is worked from left to right over a base made of a running stitch. Insert the needle above the run thread, and brought out underneath it. To make a more delicate stitch, go through only as much fabric as the running stitch covers. The sloping stem stitch is worked without a run thread; insert the needle from right to left in a slanting direction, under 1 or 2 horizontal threads of the fabric weave, and 5 or 6 perpendicular ones; so that each stitch reaches halfway back to the last.

STITCHING PROCEDURE:
Step 1. Send your needle UP from the back, at the start of your design.

Step 2. Send your needle DOWN one stitch length from the start of your design

Step 3. Send your needle UP another stitch length from your previous stitch.

Step 4. Send your needle DOWN again beside the middle of the previous stitch and close to the design line.

Repeat steps 3 and 4 along the length of the design being sure to send your needle down on the same side every time.

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