Whipped back stitch
How the Whipped back stitch is worked, what it is used for, and the stitches that go with it.
- Family
- line
- Difficulty
- easy
- 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.
- 3.6 x
- Used for
- Smooth raised outlines and lettering; curves without the stepped look of plain back stitch.
- How it works
- A row of back stitch whipped with a second thread passed under every stitch from the same side. Whipping with a thicker thread such as pearl cotton gives a bolder cord.
- Related stitchesStitches built from this one, or worked the same way
- back-stitch,whipped-running-stitch
Nearby in embroidery stitches5 of 35