SAL: new thread in cable plait stitch

Today in the Mountmellick embroidery stitch along we continue learning more about cable plait stitch.

When you are working cable plait stitch, no doubt at some point you will run out of thread before you finish the part that you are needing to stitch. With cable plait stitch looking to be quite a complicated stitch, how do you finish the old thread and start a new one so that it works ok, and nothing comes undone?

Actually, you can breathe a sigh of relief as its not hard at all!
Here we have our old thread, just finished a cable plait stitch. Though you can’t see, as it is escaping off the side of the photo, there’s not enough for me to continue on.
Take a short stitch over the final cable plait, on the right side as shown here for left-handers, or on the left side for right-handers. Finish the thread on the back by running it under the back of the stitching, then trim any excess.
You can see I have anchored my new thread by doing some running stitch in the area that I am just about to stitch over. Most of this running stitch is on the underside of the fabric so that it doesn’t interfere with how the subsequent stitching sits on the surface of the fabric.

Bring the needle out in the part of the last cable plait stitch where your thread last came out. For lefties, that will be in the loop section on the right, and for right-handers, that will be in the loop section on the left.

Pull the needle through and keep stitching as before.

There, that was easy enough, wasn’t it? I’m happy to do the little anchoring stitch here, that I was not happy to do for buttonhole stitch, as with cable plait stitch it gets covered over, and is completely unnoticeable.