Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 215: Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch

How many stitches are based on, or include, the Buttonhole Stitch (or Blanket Stitch, if you prefer that name)?

Sharon Boggon's list of TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday) stitches contains 27:

• #2     Buttonhole
• #17   Crossed Buttonhole
• #22   Buttonhole Wheel
• #26   Up and Down Buttonhole
• #36   Knotted Buttonhole
• #37   Beaded Hedebo Edge
• #40   Buttonhole Wheel Cup
• #46   Buttonhole Eyelet Flower
• #55   Buttonholed Herringbone
• #64   Top Knotted Buttonhole
• #65   Buttonhole Bar
• #69   Buttonholed Double Chain
• #71   Bullion Buttonhole
• #85   Raised Cup
• #87   Buttonhole Picot Bullion
• #88   Buttonhole Picot Chain
• #94   Reversed Buttonhole Bar
• #101 Triangular Buttonhole
• #102 Beaded Triangular Buttonhole
• #104 Buttonhole Cable Chain
• #105 Alternating Buttonhole Cable Chain
• #118 Beaded Buttonhole
• #126 Alternating Up and Down Buttonhole
• #127 Beaded Alternating Up and Down Buttonhole
• #128 Interlaced Up and Down Buttonhole
• #136 Knotted Buttonhole Band
• #137 Beaded Buttonhole Band 

My Sunday Stitch School has another 15 stitches:

• #27  Buttonholed Buttonhole
• #48  Detached Up and Down Buttonhole
• #55  Tailor's Buttonhole
• #66  Berwick
• #92  Parma
• #96  Buttonhole Fly
• #134 Slanting Blanket
• #167 Fringed Buttonhole
• #176 Buttonhole Cross
• #187 Catherine wheel
• #194 Magic Blanket
• #197 German Blanket
• #199 Up and Down Flower
• #207 Plaited Edge 
• #214 Threaded Blanket 

 So are you ready for yet another Buttonhole stitch? I hope so.

It is thanks to Annet of Fat-Quarter that we have this nice variation, which she calls Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch. 

At first glance it can be mistaken for Sunday Stitch School's #111 E Laced Edging Stitch, 

but it isn't - Annet's stitch is crossed at the top of the stitch, AND it is worked in a different way.

You can see Annet's set of Up and Down Buttonhole stitches here, where one of them is the Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch.

Now for my photo instructions:

Start with a horisontal Straight Stitch.

Come out to the upper right side.

Go under the Straight Stitch without 

biting the fabric. Notice that the needle

goes DOWN.

Make a cross.

Make another horizontal Straight Stitch, where the

needle goes UP.

Repeat from there.

Anchor with a Straight Stitch.

Easy and neat!

Thank you Annet!

Homework:

Show off the Up and Down Crossed Buttonhole Stitch on these samplers.