TAST 2010 Week 23 Waved Chain

I discovered Waved chain in Edith John's Creative stitches (p.44) It is a member of the chain stitch family and another form of triple chain.

Waved chain can be easily worked in a circle or you can emphasise the wave effect by angling the needle further left or right, you can thread ribbon through it and add beads. It is a fun and interesting linear stitch but if you layer it you build up some very interesting textures with it too!

 

Begin with a small chain stitch. To make this bring the working thread up through the fabric and take the needle through the fabric to make a small stitch and wrap the thread under the needle as illustrated. 

With the thread wrapped under the needle point pull the needle through the fabric to make your first small chain stitch. 

Bring the needle up through the fabric close but not at the same point where the working thread first emerged.

Take the needle through the fabric to make a stitch, bringing the point of the needle out a small space under and to the right of the line of the stitch as illustrated in the picture. 

 

Wrap the thread under the needle point and  pull the needle through the fabric.

Once again bring the needle up through the fabric close but not at the same point the the right hand side of the second chain.

Take the needle through the fabric bringing the point of the needle out a short space under and to the right of the line of the stitch. 

 

With the thread wrapped under the needle point pull the needle through the fabric. This forms the first triple chain stitch. 

To start of the second wave, make a chain stitch emerging from the last loop 

Bring the needle up through the fabric close to where the working thread first emerged from inside the loop of the last chain. Take the needle through the fabric bringing the point of the needle out a short space under and to the left of the line of the stitch as illustrated in the picture.

With the thread wrapped under the needle point pull the needle through the fabric. 

Bring the needle up through the fabric close to where the working thread first emerged from inside the loop of the last chain. Take the needle through the fabric bringing the point of the needle out a short space under and to the left of the line of the stitch as illustrated in the picture.

With the thread wrapped under the needle point pull the needle through the fabric to form the second wave of the line.

Work this way first to the right then to the left along the line.

 

Enjoy this weeks stitch! 

How to join in. 

Work an example of the stitch. Experiment a bit, photograph it, and put it on your flickr site or write about it on your blog. 

Please remember to link back to here so others can find the challenge too.

Come here to this post and leave a comment to tell everyone where your site is. (Click on the title and it will take you to this post on an individual page if you bookmark it you can find it again) 

Also now if you leave your full address ie include the http:// bit in your address it will become a link automatically. 

Visit a few sites of people who have already left a comment. See what they have done. I am sure everyone will enjoy following the links left in the comments. If you have time, let other people know that you have seen their work on their site.

Other groups and networks

You can also share your explorations with other members on  stitchin fingers group and the flickr TAST site 

All posts relating to this challenge are in the Take a Stitch Tuesday category and the guidelines and list of participants is here.

The 2010 Stitches so far ... 

Week 1 Diamond Stitch

Week 2 Knotted Loop stitch 

Week 3 Beaded Hedebo Edge 

Week 4 Portuguese Border Stitch 

Week 5 Knotted buttonhole stitch 

Week 6 Buttonhole Eyelet Flower

Week 7 Rope Stitch 

Week 8 Fancy Hem Stitch 

Week 9 Raised herringbone band

Week 10 Cloud Filling 

Week 11 Bullion Buttonhole 

Week 12 Sorbello

Week 13 Raised Cup Stitch 

Week 14 Buttonholed herringbone 

Week 15 Ladder Stitch 

Week 16 Italian knotted border stitch

Week 17 Sword Stitch 

Week 18 Wave Stitch 

Week 19 Up and Down Feather Stitch 

Week 20 Buttonhole wheel cup 

Week 21 Slipped detached chain stitch 

Week 22 Triple Chain stitch

Comments

[shirley bligh]

I have completed the Waved Chain Stitch. I am afraid my samples are not very dainty, but this is a stitch I could explore more.

i have put my photos onto my photostream at Flicher ay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twisted_threads/

[Judy Harper]

What a wonderful stitch!! I'm already seeing seaweed with this, done vertically. I'll get right on it.

[Lakshmi Sadala]

Sharon,
Here is my trial of wave stitch..

http://sadalas.blogspot.com/2010/08/tast2-week23-wave-stitch.html

[artvani]

This is my first stitch that I have done in TAST 2010 .Really I do not know why I did not take part earlier. This stitch is easy .I feel it suitable for ferns and sea weeds. I have done some flowers also. I have posted my work in my blog http://vani-testblog2.blogspot.com/
Best wishes
Vani

[umasrinivasan]

The stitch is very interesting and I have posted the trial piece on my blog and Flickr
http://umacheenu.blogspot.com

[viji]

It does found very easy and I had fun stitching this waved chain. I had given my trial in my blog http://viji-crafts.blogspot.com
and the flicker group site also.
Thankyou for the tutorial.
viji

[Sandy Jandik]

I posted the stitch on my blog this morning http://focus-on-fiber.blogspot.com It was a new one for me.

[Raphaela]

Here are my stitches for the weeks 22 and 23: http://textileexplorations.blogspot.com/2010/08/tast2-triple-chain-and-waved-chain.html

[Penny]

Sorry I have done it again, forgottento tell you it was on my blog, a day or two ago. Really liked this stitch and the ability to make waves.

[Doreen G]

Hi Sharon I forgot to let you know that I have done my Waved Chain stitch sample and it is on my blog.
I liked this one.
Doreen
http://doreeng.blogspot.com

[Maureen Bond]

I like the Waved chain Sharon and my two versions of this have been posted to

http://www.flickr.com/photos/crazyqstitcher/
http://crazyqstitcher.wordpress.com/

[Annet]

I wrote about some details of this stitch on my blog:
http://fat-quarter.blogspot.com/2010/08/waved-chain.html
My sampler is on my Flickr-page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28957501@N04/4878876365/

[nancilyn]

worked along with previous week's stitch, the triple chain. Blogged here:
http://mindblogglings.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#3134259095795089699

[shirley bligh]

Hi, I have just posted Week 24 Siennese stitch onto my page at flicker on the Tast page and on my blog at

http://shirleystwistedthreads.blogspot.com/

I tried a few different ways with this,I am sure there will be lots of different variations of this stitch.
thanks Sharon\\

[Kate]

I've just gotten back to stitching and tried out the wave chain. It will be an interesting stitch to add to my projects.

http://everydayrevelations.blogspot.com/2010/08/work-in-progress-stocking.html

[vivian]

I posted the Waved Chain stitch on my blog. Easy and effective.
vivian-institches.blogspot.com/

[martha cecilia]

te felicito por tan excelente pagina y explicaciones aquí en Colombia le decimos dechado a la colección de puntadas empezare a realizar el mio con tus explicaciones

[Chitra gangadharan]

Thanks for introducing this stitch,my trials are on my blog-
http://jizee6687.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/tast-2010-23-waved-chain-st/