backstitch

I turned it over with a backstitch on the selvage edge.

They are usually also capable of pulling the fabric backwards, to form a backstitch.

Backstitch is also sometimes included in this category.

Some of the varieties of stitches used include backstitch, chain stitch and hemstitch.

Hence a double backstitch is performed.

Basic backstitch or point de sable.

Variants of backstitch include:

Backstitch is most easily worked on an even-weave fabric, where the threads can be counted to ensure regularity, and is generally executed from right to left.

Basic backstitch is used to outline shapes in modern cross-stitch, in Assisi embroidery and occasionally in blackwork.

The two layers of plain fabric are stretched together without wadding, and intricately stitched together using backstitch, or after the mid-18th century, the more swiftly achieved running stitch.

Argyle socks and sweaters are normally done in intarsia, although the thin diagonal lines are often overlaid in a later step, using Swiss darning or sometimes just a simple backstitch.

Although superficially similar to Holbein stitch, commonly used in Blackwork embroidery, backstitch differs in the way it is worked, requiring a single journey only to complete a line of stitching.

A versatile and easy to work stitch, backstitch is ideal for following both smooth and complicated outlines and as a foundation row for more complex embroidery stitches such as Herringbone ladder filling stitch.

Scrolling patterns of flowers and leaves filled with geometric filling stitches are characteristic of blackwork from the 1540s through 1590s, and similar patterns worked in coloured silks appear from the 1560s, outlined in backstitch and filled with detached buttonhole stitch.

The needle in the simplest backstitch comes up from the back of the fabric, makes a stitch to the right going back to the back of the fabric, then passes behind the first stitch and comes up to the front of the fabric to the left of the first stitch.

Usually, she will backstitch at the seam end, then cut the thread.

You then backstitch through the enlarged stitches as they hang in the hooks.

Place right sides together and backstitch around the bottom curve, 5mm from the edge.

Tacking and fitting a garment of this kind is always useful and then you can simply backstitch or mattress seam the edges.

It is, however, not easy to backstitch the neckband through the open loops because of the loops which are part of the construction of the yarn.

The stitches used for counted thread blackwork are double running or holbein stitch, backstitch, and sometimes stem stitch.

Her sweaters had necks that were sewn and cut and Pauline included the following instructions for adding a fully fashioned band as a neat finish by her easy method that avoids having to backstitch through open loops.