This is a fairly easy stitch to do, but it wasn't so easy for me to learn! I think I am doing it correctly...anyway here is what I did. First, this stitch doesn't need any guidelines just a needle and floss:
This stitch is worked from right to left. The first step is to come up through your fabric. Keep your working floss to the left:
Next, slide your needle under the working floss, without going into the fabric and then over the working floss:
Gently pull on the working floss to wrap the floss around the needle. Put your needle into the fabric just to the left of where your floss originally came up through the fabric:
Now take a small stitch
and pull your needle through:
and keep pulling:
Pull all the way through and you will have a flat loop which is the first stitch. Now just repeat: bring your needle under and then over your working floss:
Pull on the working floss to wrap it around your needle. Put your needle into the fabric a bit to the left of where the floss came out of the fabric:
and take a stitch:
Now pull the needle and floss all the way through and this forms the second loop:
Just continue for as many stitches as you want:
To end the stitching line, simply go back down through the fabric and thread your floss through the underside stitches to anchor the floss: 
This stitch leaves a nice, neat underside:
I think this is such a beautiful stitch, it almost looks like a bracelet! 
The cable chain stitch is stitch #45 and is in the linked stitches section of 100 Stitches.
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