Here’s a video for the heavy chain stitch used in hand embroidery. The heavy chain stitch creates a more solid chain stitch line that is quite smooth and that looks like a tightly worked braid. It can be used practically anywhere you would use a regular chain stitch line.
The heavy chain stitch works fine on straight lines, and gently and tight curves. In the photo above, the green scalloped line is worked in the heavy chain stitch.
The heavy chain stitch works really well for embroidering text, too. You can find this tutorial for embroidering text with heavy chain stitch in my hand embroidered lettering lessons.
Here’s the video for the heavy chain stitch. I hope you find it useful!
If you’re looking for other hand embroidery stitch videos, feel free to check out my whole collection of embroidery how-to videos here on Needle ‘n Thread!
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heyy mary…i must tel u dat m a big fan of urs…n m so thankful to u for putting up such a website for us which has so much to offer in embroidery….i have used some of ur stitches in my handmade cards…n that brought in my way loads of compliments…cheers to you dear….
thanks for such a nice description, it will be better if you show some images giving an idea where to use which stitch.
Hej Mary,
I loved sewing since childhood but for over 20 years I was out of the sewing world due to my secretarial job. Now I suddenly realise I still love sewing. First time I came across this ‘Heavy chain stitch’ and its beautiful. I am going to enjoy learning more from your site. Thanks for such useful information and video tutorial. Good Luck Mary!