Originally Posted by POosterman
Use a straight stretch stitch on the sewing machine if you have one. It works really nicely for this type of requirement. It works kinda like a back stitch.
I've used my stretch stitch for machine sashiko & think it's a great idea for the horse mouths. My stitch shows 3 vertical dotted lines on the select key, it goes forward, backward, forward for the one complete stitch.