Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 287: Reversed Chain Stitch with Buttonhole Edging

Let's add more work on last week's stitch.  Reversed Chain Stitch with Buttonhole Edging may be a bit of a mouthful to say, but it is not hard to work! 

I found it at Baroque Embellishments, a blog run by Kimberly Servello. Rachel at VirtuoSew Adventures has also used this stitch. Both ladies were working on Gold Work projects. Here, I will try my hand at the stitch with ordinary Perle No 8.

Start by making a line of Reverse Chain Stitch.

Take a second thread, of the same or a different colour. Come out at the beginning of the chain. Take the thread up through the second link, and down at the first link, without going through the fabric. Look carefully at the picture to check that you have placed the needle correctly.

Move to the third link and repeat.

Anchor at the end of the line and

turn the work around and repeat the edging stitches.

Homework: Add here.

Friday Homework for Lesson 286: Reversed Chain Stitch

So easy, so even, so nice!

Aida Sampler

Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart

Mottled Wool Scribble Cloth

WIPW - Variegated Thread

My Work In Progress Wednesday report: I have used variegated thread for two out of three stitches that were added to the 

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

They are #276 Alternating Wheatear Stitch and #285 Triple German Knot Stitch. For #284 A-Stitch, I used a monochrome green Perle.

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 286: Reverse Chain Stitch

I realised a basic stitch was missing in Sunday Stitch School's collection - Reverse Chain Stitch. So let's learn it today.

Follow my pictorial instructions, or check out Royal School Of Needlework's Stitch Bank.

Start with a small Straight Stitch. This will be your 'anchoring stitch'.

Now come out a bit below, where you want the first link to end.

Take the needle behind the Straight Stitch, without entering the fabric.

Then go down and insert the needle where it came out, thus creating the first link in the chain.

Come out where you want to place the second link. Continue in the same way

until you have as long a chain as you want. Fasten the thread on the back.

The stitch curves beautifully.

Homework: Add here: