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How to Make a Back Stitch When Hand Sewing (with Video)

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Summary: The strongest stitch in hand sewing, the back stitch is the closest to a machine stitch you can get. This is also a common stitch used when doing embroidery by hand.

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Difficulty: Easy
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  1. Step 1

    Bring your needle up a stitch from the edge of your fabric. Then send back through near the edge of the fabric – going through the back of your fabric past your beginning stitch. You will be making your stitch backwards.

  2. Step 2

    Pull your needle back up a stitch away from your first insertion point.

  3. Step 3

    Feed needle back through first insertion point. Then continue the process, basically double sewing each stitch.

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on 9/27/2008 Thanks for the video. Easy to understand.

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on 9/13/2008 Good info, thanks.

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