This variety incorporates laced running stitch, taken both ways along the running stitch, to give it a final ‘chain’ look.
Lay the foundation by doing a running stitch. Follow the instructions of laced running stitch to get a laced running stitch pattern | |
Fig 1: Bring another thread out from near the first stitch and the needle under it from the bottom. | Fig 2: Now take the needle under the second stitch from the top. Continue this action of taking the needle under each stitch from the top and bottom alternately. |
Fig 3: A finished line of interlaced running stitch would look like this. |