Laced Running Stitch

 

This one is going to feel like a cross between backstitch and cloud filling. It makes such a beautiful border and it’s crazy simple. 

Ready? 

 
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Start with your running stitch. Add as many as you like and space them however you like. Here I come up, skip one hole and go back down.

Start with your running stitch. Add as many as you like and space them however you like. Here I come up, skip one hole and go back down.

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Then I skip 3 holes to start the next stitch

Then I skip 3 holes to start the next stitch

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Now it’s time to lace it up… Bring your thread from the back through the hole you skipped under your first running stitch like so

Now it’s time to lace it up… Bring your thread from the back through the hole you skipped under your first running stitch like so

Then weave that bad boy up and down until you run out of horizontal stitches

Then weave that bad boy up and down until you run out of horizontal stitches

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To finish, you can just do as you did at the start. Bring your floss through to the back via the middle stitch under your last horizontal stitch and tie it off.

To finish, you can just do as you did at the start. Bring your floss through to the back via the middle stitch under your last horizontal stitch and tie it off.