Stacked chain stitch

Last week I showed my TAST chain stitch samples and today I want to share how I made the stacked chain stitch. It was inspired by Deepa’s chain stitch filling. I used perle 8 on Aida, each stitch is 2 spaces long. First I stitched 2 rows of purple chain stitches with one space between them.

Then I made a stacked row of yellow chain stitches. I started between the purple rows, halfway the first chain stitches. So the stacked row is shifted one space.

I put my needle from top to bottom through the inside loops of the purple chain stitches and pulled the thread through.

Then I pulled the yellow thread to the left to make it easy to make the chain stitch. I used my needle to do that, but didn’t pull the thread through.

Now I could make a normal chain stitch through the fabric.

And this is the result.

I attached 2 mm beads inside the yellow chain stitches.

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