Back stitch
How the Back stitch is worked, what it is used for, and the stitches that go with it.
- Family
- line
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Thread use (x)Line, knot, detached, couching, edging and composite stitches: cm of thread per cm of stitched line. Filling stitches: cm of thread per square cm of solid cover with all six strands (halve the strands and the figure doubles). Working figures used by the thread length estimator; they include the thread on the back but not starts and ends.
- 2.2 x
- Used for
- Solid outlines, lettering, fine detail, the outline around satin-stitched shapes, outlining in cross-stitch.
- How it works
- Bring the needle up one stitch length ahead of the last stitch and take it down into the end of that stitch, so each stitch is made backwards into the previous one. Gives an unbroken line like a sewing machine.
- Related stitchesStitches built from this one, or worked the same way
- whipped-back-stitch,pekinese-stitch,split-stitch
Nearby in embroidery stitches4 of 35