Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 322: Open Linked Chain Stitch

Thirteen years ago, I started participating in Sharon Boggon's TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday) project. It is an online stitch challenge, and it is still going on. I can highly recommend it. Check out the link above.

At TAST, we were not only taught new stitches but encouraged to use them in creative ways. Oh, I learned so much from those Tuesday tutorials. 

There were many participants following TAST, and we were all invited to share our work on Sharon's website Pintangle. Among the participants were Chitra of Jizee6687's Weblog and Annet of Fat Quarters. Those two ladies were especially adventurous and made many new experiments based on Sharon's basic stitches.

Unfortunately, neither Chitra nor Annet are active on their blogs any longer. Here is a link to a blog post Chitra published in 2014, so you can see how she expanded TAST #95 Linked Chain Stitch.

 This is my sample of the stitch in 2014.

Annet also made new versions, and today's stitch is the result she got after having tweaked the Linked Chain Stitch.

You can see her experimental tutorial here, it is also from 2014. She called it Open Linked Chain Stitch.

Below you can see my step-by-step photo instructions.

First, you make an Open Chain Stitch.

Use an odd number when you space the

two legs. Here I worked over three holes.

Next, you need a Back Stitch from the

middle of the stitch line, (which is why

you needed that uneven number).

And one more Back Stitch into the 

same middle position.

The first unit is done.

You now start all over again from 

a little bit below.

I anchored my thread in the last pointed 

Back Stitch. It looks a bit like a pencil!

Or a stack of capital As!

Homework:

Add a stack of As to the three samplers: