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Chain stitch   /tʃeɪn stɪtʃ/   Listen
Chain stitch

noun
1.
The most basic of all crochet stitches made by pulling a loop of yarn through another loop.
2.
A looped stitch resembling the links of a chain; used in embroidery and in sewing.





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"Chain stitch" Quotes from Famous Books



... cloth while it is running through the machine. The clip arrangement is automatic, and just before the end passes under the needle it is released, and the arm flies back ready for the next piece; it is, however, not necessary to use this arm always. This machine gives a chain stitch sufficiently firm to resist a pull in the direction of the length of the pieces, but giving readily to a pull at ...
— The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics - A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student • Franklin Beech
... Collar.—Make a chain about one-third longer than the outside of your paper pattern, turn and work the first row along the chain in long crochet, making a chain stitch after each long one, and missing the corresponding loop of ...
— The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 • Unknown
... arguments tend. Meanwhile, note how much reason a statesman has to pause before meddling with an institution which, unendurable as its drawbacks are, threatens to come to pieces in all directions if a single thread of it be cut. Ibsen's similitude of the machine- made chain stitch, which unravels the whole seam at the first pull when a single stitch is ripped, is very applicable to the ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw


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