Running stitch
How the Running stitch is worked, what it is used for, and the stitches that go with it.
- Family
- line
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Thread use (x)Line, knot, detached, couching, edging and composite stitches: cm of thread per cm of stitched line. Filling stitches: cm of thread per square cm of solid cover with all six strands (halve the strands and the figure doubles). Working figures used by the thread length estimator; they include the thread on the back but not starts and ends.
- 1.3 x
- Used for
- Dashed outlines, quilting lines, sashiko, tacking a design in place, the base row for whipped and laced variations.
- How it works
- The needle passes in and out of the fabric in a straight line so that the stitches and the gaps between them are about the same length. Several stitches can be loaded on the needle before it is pulled through.
- Related stitchesStitches built from this one, or worked the same way
- whipped-running-stitch,holbein-stitch,darning-stitch
Nearby in embroidery stitches1 of 35