Buttonholed Double Chain is an unusual variety of Double Chain.
This version of double chain is buttonholed and can feel messy and a little awkward. Once past the first few stitches, it takes on a form, settles down, and behaves.
How to work Buttonholed Double Chain stitch
Work Buttonholed Double Chain stitch downwards between imaginary parallel lines.
Bring your needle up from the back of the fabric on the left-hand side of the line and insert it on the right-hand side with the needle pointing downwards. Position it a little to the right of where the thread emerged.
With the thread wrapped under the needle, pull the needle through the fabric so that you create a very open chain stitch.
Instead of tying the chain stitch down, working from right to left, use the open chain stitch as a foundation to create 3 to 4 buttonhole stitches. At this stage of the stitch, do not pass your needle through the fabric, just buttonhole the bar.
When you have worked along the bar to the halfway point, make the second (openish) chain by inserting the needle into the fabric, pointing downwards, on the left-hand side of the line just below where the thread first emerged. (See the illustration)
To start the first buttonhole, wrap the thread over the needle and under before pulling the needle through. This makes the second chain stitch, which is a foundation bar for buttonhole stitches. Working left to right, work 3-4 buttonhole stitches.
When you have worked along the bar once again at the halfway point, make the next open chain by inserting the needle into the fabric, pointing downwards, on the right-hand side of the line.
Once again, to start the first buttonhole, wrap the thread over the needle and under before pulling the needle through.
Continue in this manner, back and forth down the line.
When you first start this stitch, it feels sloppy and uncontrolled, but once you get in the swing, it forms an interesting line or worked row upon row, develops into an interesting net-like texture.
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Hi Sharon,
my attempts on this stitch are here-
http://jizee6687.wordpress.com/category/tast-2013/21-69-buttonholed-double-chain-stitch/
Thank you,
Chitra
I’m still playing catch-up. Today I wrote about the coral stitch:
http://fat-quarter.blogspot.nl/2013/06/coral-stitch-and-granitos.html
My addition on the sampler:
http://queeniepatch.blogspot.jp/2013/06/tast-69-buttonholed-double-chain.html
http://stitchinfingers.ning.com/photo/tast-69-buttonholed-double-chain?context=user
This week’s stitch took me a while to decipher but once I experimented with the double chain, I worked out what to do and here is my attempt at a Buttonholed Double Chain:
http://210920746822434353.weebly.com/1/post/2013/06/take-a-stitch-tuesday-2013-stitch-69.html
I need to work on keeping a straight line! I like this stitch and am thinking about where I will use it. Here’s my sample – http://hokkaidokudasai.blogspot.jp/2013/06/tast-69-buttonholed-double-chain-stitch.html
Thanks!
I have posted 4 more samples – stitches 17 to 20 on my blog at http://todayinkenogami.blogspot.ca/2013/06/take-stitch-tuesday.html
I’ve just uploaded TAST 67 to my blog. I don’t think I’ve done this one before, and I like it.
http://linsartyblobs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/tast-67.html
Thanks Sharon.
I found this stitch difficult. Thanks for taking the time to teach it to us though!
http://princessbubblescreates.blogspot.ca/
Hi Sharon
I have noticed that you use some very beautiful variegated threads at time, I would like to know where you buy you them and what size they are. When you stitch them, they look fantastic.
Nora Thanks for the compliment. I hand dye my threads – mostly they are either #5 or #8 perle cotton or silk. Very Occasionally – and I mean occasionally like every 2-3 years I have a clean out and put some up for sale. To get a good price I buy bulk and then every now and then I have a I will never use all this thread moment!
Hey! I love your work!!
I have one request, I think that some pics are missing in this stitch. Please correct them, because it’s being really tough for me to learn this stitch
They are not missing but they do need to be replaced I agree with that. Its on my list of things to do!
When I saw this stitch today, I remembered my struggle with this stitch in 2010. I wrote about it in my weekly post with old buttonholed double chain stitches:
http://fat-quarter.blogspot.nl/2013/06/old-buttonholed-double-chain-stitches.html
I’m glad it’s part of TAST again, I forgot I learned it!
Hmmm- this is going to be an interesting one !
Here is my link for my attempts at coral, fancy hem and slipped chain.
http://thethreadbear.blogspot.fr/2013/06/coral-decorative-hem-slipped-detached.html