How to Sew a Back Stitch

Video Transcript

"Next we have the back stitch and that is one step up from the running stitch and as you are positioning the needle differently it's going to add a little bit of strength into your overall stitch. It's going to allow it to hold a little better. So we're going to start once again with our knot on the wrong side of the fabric and you want to go in like the running stitch and then what it's going to do is it doubles back on itself so you want to go halfway to where you came in, right, and then you want to go one step further and then you go halfway again and then you go one step further so it's sort of splitting the running stitch up so see we're going to have, excuse me, it's splitting each stitch up so we have this complete. It's going to keep running into itself creating a whole line. Halfway, going backwards, carrying on, halfway above, again, this threads acting up, halfway and moving up again so one side will look like that and then the other side will look like that."