#chainstitch

[a-strawberry-mouse]

I need everyone to know that this is *exactly* as plushie as it looks.

I could not possibly be happier with how it turned out.

It's so soft.

Squishy.

Floof without the fluff.

[shivskill]

lady eboshi single strand chainstitch wip and this might be the best face ive embroidered this far. lines are finally done, now we move onto the color filling!

[dutchjan]

31-03-2025

[godlovesdykes]

seam ripper seam ripper seam ripper. forever i am taking things apart. currently it is my blue tea gown that needs to be altered but was made by a very fastidious theatre costumer and has 10000000 layers of basting and staystitching and chain stitching (why?)

[sussex-newswire]

"On Feb. 4, the Duchess of Sussex shared a selfie-style video on Instagram in which she shared her excitement about receiving Billie Eilish merchandise for a teen whose home was damaged in the recent Los Angeles fires. Meghan, 43, was sporting a black crewneck sweatshirt featuring the names of her two children — Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3 — stitched along the collar. The product was from Club Chainstitch, a woman-owned small business that uses a 1920s chainstitch machine to create custom products.

"Owner Ann Leachman tells PEOPLE she became aware of the Duchess of Sussex's fashion choice when a friend sent her the video asking if it was from her company.

"'I was so stunned. I had to do a double take and almost didn't believe it was one of ours, even though the writing on her shirt is in my literal handwriting,' Leachman says.

"Leachman says it was a 'regular, random order' made through the shop in 2022. However, Meghan's name was 'nowhere on the order, so I thought nothing of it and never put the connection together with her children's names as the text choice. That explains how surprised I was to see her wearing it over two years later!'

"'I'm not sure if it was a gift or if Meghan ordered it herself,' she adds. 'Either Meghan loves to support small women-owned handmade businesses or she has great friends in her life who do. Likely both!'

"Leachman was taking a break from her shop for maternity leave after welcoming her first child in November when the news of Meghan's support broke.

"'I was planning on easing back to work very slowly by opening the shop up a week from now,' she says. 'But after I saw the reel of Meghan wearing a Club Chainstitch sweatshirt, I knew this was a game-changing moment for a small business like mine, and I had to open up early. It has been a wild way to come back to work, and I am so grateful for all the orders and support!'"

[womenofwrestlingfashion]

Bullsh*t Chainstitch Pocket Tee from Classic Rock Couture ($54)

[asstrongasyouthink]

i have never been what you might call cool or popular but my sewing side blog did just get a huge influx of likes and reblogs from a single person which is very novel and fun for me. i dont want to be cool or popular but i do want to be appreciated for my skills so this is nice.

[freshthoughts2020]

[jewellery-box]

Day dress of blue chambray with white cotton machine chainstitch embroidery, late 1880s

Augusta Auctions

[the1920sinpictures]

1922-24 c. Silk Corelli chainstitch embroidery on metallic and silk tricot ground, label "Bonwit Teller & Co. French Handmade". From Augusta Auctions.

[adodora]

I’ve FINALLY finished embroidering this. It took months and unglodly amounts of green thread, but it’s over. I curse the day I decided to follow through on the ideia of using the detached chainstitch to fill every. single. leaf. but hey, at least it looks nice. (Hope it looks enough like a cedar tree to my lebanese grandfather, otherwise it will all have been for nothing)

[resplendentoutfit]

Fur-trimmed Vintage Fashions

1920s dress • Silk chiffon, satin lined, jet beads, fur cuffs

Right: 1920s beaded dress with fur trimmed hem and cuffs

Left: Paquin evening dress, c. 1923 - 1924, Black silk crepe, gold lamé, sewn embroidery of coloured beads, transparent beads, gold thread and chainstitched coloured silk thread; mirror glass; fur.

Right: Paul Poiret, c. 1913, silk with sequin embellishments and fur trimmed hem and cuffs

Left: 1930s Crushed velvet bias cut dress with mink fur trim

Evening dress by designer Marguerite, c. 1915 • Metropolitan Museum of Art

This evening dress reflects the transitional period around 1915 when dressmaking included a mix of materials. Here chiffon, fur and velvet are used. The silhouette shows the popular pannier shape of the time. Although a variety of textiles were employed, the design is less complex than the embellished work of the Belle Époque.

– Metropolitan Museum of Art

[clairaworlds]

SIFFREN CLOAK POST TIME BBY.

Tl;dr: In my opinion the backstiching on Siffrin's cloak is used to reinforce the seams, the cloak likely has a lining flatlined into the cloak, and if you'll allow me to offer a headcannon, hand sewn.

More in depth analysis and examples below

Ok to start, let's go over Isabeau's dialog about the cloak. I'll put it in full here, other characters comments are cut out.

So right here, right, that's super interesting stitching. It's backstitching, right, which is a very solid kind of stitching, and it's used in a lot of different places... But Vaugardian clothing in general is moving away from backstitching, because, well, we think it's boring. Like here, my clothing here has something called chainstitching, and also it's in a zigzag shape, because it looks cuter I guess. But backstitching is just more durable. Now that I look at it, your hat has the same stitching too... I wonder if they were a set? And, um, look at the way the cloak is weaved, too! It's wool, and it goes one thread up, one thread down, et cetera... But, again, Vaugardian clothing likes to be more interesting visually, so if you look at Mira's cloak--

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No, no, I'm not saying it's boring!!!!! I'm just saying it's like... It's clothing that's less like Vaugarde, or even Ka Bue's artistic clothing... It's less clothing that's to make you look pretty, or make you stand out, and more clothing that's here to keep you comfy and warm. Function over form, you know?

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So, um, what I'm SAYING is... Considering the Craft that came into it... The temperature regulation and how it grows with you... Whoever gave you this cloak wanted to make sure you're gonna be nice and comfy for a long time, Sif!

Note: I'm not a tailor, I've made a few garments and I embroder but that's about it. Take everything with a grain of salt.

Alright, first what is he even talking about? Here's a quick example of the two stitches Isabeau mentioned and a running stich which is probably the most basic stich

Please ignore my inability to sew in a straight line. Also my horrid chain stich. I did not do it justice there so here's a better example of how it looks

we can ignore Isabeau's incorrect opinions on what qualifies as an interesting stich bc he's probably talking more about the cultural differences between Siffrin's cloak and Vaugardian clothing. Which I'll admit IS intresting. But what stuck out to me is the fact that Isabeau can see the stitching at all. Most garments hide the majority of their stitching. You can see the seams sure, but the atual stichwork is typically on the inside.

As you can see here, now that IS a cloak, and the seem hides the stichwork, the next option is that isabeau is looking at either the hem or the collar, i dout it's the collar just bc that's really close to Sif's neck/face and also bc it might not have any visible stitching either. The hem line is a possibility but if Siffrin's cloak has a lineing it might not show any visible stitching either.

Atually let's talk about lineings real quick. I imagen Siffrin's cloak has one, for several reasons, I think it'd be cool, I think it'd work with the idea that the cloak is designed to survive a LONG time becuase it reinforces and protects the garment, and it works with some fun headcannons i have. Here's an example of a lined cloak, the outside is the shiny later, the inside has the hand-embroidered stars. I'm focusing on the seems in thease pictures but a lined cloak might hide ALL its stiches including the hems.

Although that's IF the cloak is bag lined, which is a process that leaves the lineing and the outside as mostly separate layers. You basically sew two garments then stich them together at the edges. But i have a feeling Siffrin's cloak is flat lined, not bag lined, so you basically attach the lineing to the outside and sew it together like it's one peice of fabric, the lineing dosnt move as much and honestly it comes out a little nicer. So that means the stichwork would still be visible on the inside of the cloak AND the hem, but I have a feeling Isa wasn't just holding Siffrin's cloak inside out to show off the stitching, and i don't think he was talking about the hem because it's not really a load bearing structure if that makes sense and it seems to me like Isa is talking about something that would benefit from being reinforced. So what's he talking about.

Well look at this

There we go! Visable stitching on the outside of a garment!!! So what's the difference here? A couple of things but the best summary I have is: the seem is reinforced by being stiched down. Here's an example on a different garment.

To test this, I grabbed some scrap fabric and tried it out i also did a quick hem with a backstich just to see how it'd look. I used contrasting thread to make it visable

I also think Siffrin's cloak is a full circle cloak constructed with two halves sewn together like the bottom example here

This is generally eaiser to construct than a four piece version and atually HAS seems unlike a single pice verdhion. Admittedly it may be a challenge depending on the width of the fabric, although if it was made when Sif was a kid and Crafted to grow with him that's much less of an issue

So! That's my two cents on the stitching on Siffrin's cloak. Honestly I would LOVE to make a Siffrin cloud but fabric is expensive and I can't really afford it, i also don't have the time. For now I should focous on finishing the star cloak I showed earlier, incase anyones curious here's the full inside of that cloak as of now

Here's some other headcannons related to fabric and sewing.

First sewing macheens and other textile production macheens exist. I know isat is a veaugly fantasy historical style setting but I'll die on the hill that there's some sort of quicker way to produce textiles, primarily because fabric, fiber and clothing has historically been massively important and I have a hard time imaging that craft isn't capable of making fabric quicker.

Related to that, I think part of the reason Crafted clothing (like Sif's stuff) is more rare is becuase it has to be hand made. Maybe not hand spun and woven and sewn but in my head the more steps you do by hand the more it's Crafted.

In that veign I think Siffrin's contry has a tendency twards hand-made stuff. There are reasons for this but it's mostly vibes. Honestly I think all of isat puts a higher emphasis on arts and crafts than the real world but I like the idea that Sif's contry espechally focuses on the hand made, it makes sense with the whole ritual thing, there are plenty of rituals and superstitions arround hand-made goods.

In contrast Vaugarde trends twards evolution of techniques and technology, where someone from Siffrin's contry may be a master at an ancient technique that's been passed down for generations, a Vaugardian crafter will have developed their own unique style and often prioritizes astetics above convince, not to the point of it being low quality (like fast fashion) but more like "I decided to use two diffrent fabrics to make stripes insted of just one solid color fabric even though it's more work becuase it looks cool" Ka Bue has a heavy focous on tradition but also artistic vision, i kinda imagen it as the ballance between the two ends of the spectrum, but in a totally different way.

Next i think Siffrin's contry likes incorporating subtle decorations, like the hat with the stars on the lineing, or useing visable stitching on seams both to reinforce it and bc it's prity--sewing in a straight line is HARD, doing a backstich with consistent stichlenghts is harder, doing both by hand is impressive, having the stitching appear on the outside of the cloak would be a deliberate choice becuase you CAN just reinforce a seem on the inside of a garment. Admittedly that might be what's going on if we assume Isabeau is looking at the internal construction insted of any vidable stichwork. So yeah, function over form but with some subtle detailing.

Is this just an excuse for me to pretend that the lineing of Siffrin's cloak is hand embroidered with stars? Yes! But you can pry this headcanon out of my cold, dead hands! I love hand embroidered stars on the inside of a cloak, i literally own a cloak that i made that's like that!! (I'll finish it one day I swair! I just made a mistake and attached the lineing b4 I did the embrodery, like an idiot, and it's really annoying to work on!!)

One last thing I think is interesting is the use of the word "cloak" cloaks typically go over the shoulders and CAN close in the frount, but are still open. I'd describe Sif's cloak more as a poncho, and Mira's cloak as a shawl, but there really arnt any perfict words for every garment, so cloak is a good enough word. It'd also make sense if "cloak" is just the word for "outer layer garment that goes over the shoulders like that" in the world of isat.

[saint-vier]

Alexa, play Kalahari Down 🖤

Very silly, very queer vest I made to see Orville Peck this weekend. My first time doing chainstitch embroidery and my first time using fusible interfacing which I’ve always been terrified of for reasons unknown. Cannot deny it really elevated the construction of this thing.

It has its flaws, but overall I’m pretty stoked about it. I only got into Orville recently, and Kalahari Down was the first song of his that really struck me. The universal experience of queerness always amazes me. We all leave behind things we aren’t ready to outgrow when we decide to live authentically.

[boycritter]

hi please tell me all your little freak thoughts about crochet knot theory/topology/whatever it is you do /pos

THIS IS THE BEST ASK IVE EVER GOTTEN <3

okay umm so one challenge we have run into with crochet is that theres no like . standardized way to crochet. yeah theres a general way you do each stitch but people do different things in terms of which way to pull the yarn, going under or over, etc etc

the way i do my slip stitch and the way another person on the project did a slip stitch are different, and we would get different knots when connecting up the ends of the yarn. we decided to go with the method that made it a 0-crossing knot so we had a nicer trivial case (trivial case = simplest possible)

so far we have not gotten very far in terms of math stuff with anything beyond just. chains. but it has been very interesting !!! if you do a slip stitch and then pull your yarn through the slip stitch under -> over, then connect the ends, it makes a different knot than if you pull your yarn over -> under !!!! which is pretty cool!!

and knot theory is great and its so fun i get to play with my tuoys AND do math about it

i helped write a proof for the unknotting number of any n-chainstitch!! (we call it a chainstitch instead of just a chain bc chains are already a different thing in topology (n = number of chains)) basically meaning how many crossings do you need to change (flip which strand is on top) to get something from being not the unknot to being the unknot :3