Old barred chain and alternating barred chain

The TAST stitch for week 12 is barred chain and alternating barred chain. Just like every Tuesday I wanted to show you some old samples of this stitch. To my astonishment I only found my sampler for TAST 2007. I never used this stitch again! So today I show you the details of my TAST 2007 sampler. It’s stitched on muslin with 2 threads of stranded DMC. I started with a barred chain doodle.

Then I made a barred chain circle and decorated it with beads.

Here I experimented with alternating barred chain.

My last experiment was a barred chain doodle with a piece of pink tulle on the muslin.

You can see the complete 2007 sampler in my original post here. It will be fun to experiment with this stitch again!