How to Do the Chain Stitch in Embroidery..

How to Work the Chain Stitch

Embroidery stitching is one of the most important stitches in embroidery work. This is a looped stitch that can be worked with curved or straight lines. This is a stitch that you will use all the time.
Once you learn the basic chain stitch, you can begin to explore the variations of the stitch. These include single or isolated chains, lazy daisies, heavy chains, square chains, feather chains, cable chains, zigzag chains. And many more. Chain stitching is a great filling stitch.

Chain Stitch
 To perform basic chain stitching, complete the following:

1.  Boring Tea Necklace Sub through tea fabric at your starting point. 
2.  Start earring the needle again, and bring the tip through the fabric at a short distance. 
3.  Place the working thread on the back of the needle, and pull the needle through the loop

Repeat this process for additional stitching. Finish the length by sewing a short, anchoring straight end at the end of the final loop to secure it in place.

Changing the Thread
To change the thread while this stitch is working, do not finish the thread by sewing the anchoring in the final loop. Instead, use the following method:

1. Hold the final loop on the surface of the fabric, and knit the tail of the first thread through the back of the stitch on the other side of the fabric. The remaining loop should be equal in size or slightly larger than existing loops.
2. Knit the new thread through the back of the stitch on the wrong side of the fabric. Bring the switch up to where the next stitch should begin.
3. If necessary, toggle the tail of the first thread to reduce the size of the front loop, making sure all the loops are the same size.
4. Chain Stitch continued to function as usual.

Reversed Chain Stitch

The finished result of the reverse chain stitch is the same as the standard chain stitch. It's a method that is different and many people find it much easier.
Basically, it's like starting at the opposite end of a line of chain stitching. If you have ever done stand stains, you can accidentally pull out a whole string of stitches. This will never happen with reverse chain stitching.

To do the reverse chain stitching work, complete the following
1. Start with a short straight stitch along the line you will be sewing
2. Bring one stitch length away from the straight stitch (point 1). Slide the needle underneath the narrow stitch and the bottom to where the needle came from.
3. Bring the needle up again, one stitch length away from the edge of the previous stitch (new point . Slide the needle under the previous stitch and return to where the needle came from.
Repeat this process. When you have finished the sewing row, there is no need to do anything special to finish it.
Use this stitch wherever you use basic chain stitching. You can use this method for curved chain stitching or even for isolated chain stitching.

Tips for Chain Stitch 

Chain stitches are easy, but a few tips will help you along the way:

• As you work this stitch, pay attention to the twist and direction of the thread. You can finish sewing a curved chain at will. 
• When you are doing reverse chain stitching, try to use two colored threads in one line. Thread two needles with floss and alternate color with each new stitch. 
•  Add an extra dimension by layer stitching your chain with a back stitch or stitch. After you work the chain stitch, go back to it, either fill the centers of each "link" or take a stitch at the point where each "link" is attached. 
• Another way to add something extra to your chain stitch is to tie a second color yarn over a line of finished embroidery.

Working the Chain Stitch as a Filling

Chain Stitch also makes a terrific fill that works fast to create solid blocks of color in your embroidery.
To work the chain stitching as a fill, close multiple rows together, folding them apart so that no fabric is visible between the rows. You can move all the sewing rows in the same direction or alternate them so that they create a textured texture.