hi this is Tamra from ugly blog.com and in this video I'm going to demonstrate the running stitch I will be using Lion Brand yarns wool-ease thick & quick and a finishing needle from Susan Bates if you don't have a finished needle any yarn or tapestry needle with a large I big enough to fit the yarn you're using will work for this now you'll notice I didn't have a crochet hook the running stitch is not a crochet stitch this is a sewing stitch but it can be very handy for crochets let me show you how I'm gonna start by threading some yarn here on a needle this is cut yarn it's got the other end here it's not attached to the skein at all or the ball of yarn anyway I've cut it off and what I'm going to do is I'm going to demonstrate a couple different ways you can use the running stitch now one way is to sew things together to sew two pieces of crochet together they could be the same maybe I could be sandwich eating these together or I could be adding an applique whatever you want to do basically I'm going to demonstrate the running stitch first as a decorative stitch right here on this square so you could use this in a decorative manner by coming from behind pull it all the way through leaving enough at the end there to weave in when you're all done and then you're going to go in and then come from behind and come back out and then I'm just gonna keep moving forward in the direction I want to go always going forward you can see it's called a running stitch probably because it goes too darn fast now I am just going through rows but I could absolutely do this between two rows we'll just go ahead and make a right turn here or a left turn whichever direction you like and I'm just kind of using this is a field of single crochet stitches but you could do this on a field of whatever stitches but I'm just going the direction I want to go and that's the running stitch you see it's not like the back stitch in that Dublin at any point or anything like that I'm just sewing sewing sewing now what if I wanted to use this to actually sew two pieces of fabric together I've got a little circle here we're gonna call it an applique because why not and I'm gonna use the applique excuse me use the running stitch now to use to sew on this applique the running stitch is a really good one for sewing on appliques because it's really easy to pull out like if I decided oh you know what I didn't want to turn there that's not where I like it all I have to do uses my needle to pull up loops and it's gonna pull right back out easy-peasy so when you're putting on an applique the running stitch is a great way to do a first round around the applique in case you need to pull it out in case you get it on there and you realize it's in the wrong spot something I think we've all done so I would come up from behind through both layers and of course if this was with a new piece of yarn I would still leave some on the end there to sew in and then I'll just go let's see I came up through that stitch so I'll go to the next stitch right here sometimes really got to push through that was a little bit there we go and then I would go to the next stitch and come up there now you can see I'm sort of following the circle of the applique here I'm not so much worried about how it's looking from behind let's see if I flip this over you can see these are the stitches right here that I've done on the applique so it's just gonna go in its own direction from behind there but from the front it's starting to get really tacked down but it's still same way easy to pick out if that's what you need to do so the running stitch is great for decorative use for putting on applique is especially if you're not sure they're in exactly the right spot if I did use it to put on the application it turns out it was in the right spot I would probably do another round with a running stitch going in between the previous stitches like there just to make sure it's sewn on really securely especially if it's an item that's going to go to a baby or a toddler or a small child who might tug on it a little more than we adults would so just as a quick example here at the end I'll show you one way I've used them burning stitch in a pattern recently this is the bring your own bag bag design for a six pack here it's a little dark in here so it's a little harder to see but it could be a six-pack carrier or whatever you want to put in there and you can use see I use the running stitch decoratively on the handles to simulate sort of that sewn look so those are just some ideas of ways you can use the running stitch I hope you'll give it a try and I hope you enjoyed this video thanks so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe