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There are many different types of stitches when you're hand stitching fabric together,
and it can be fun, it can be creative, and it can make a different look. Hi, my name
is Daniel King. I'm a pattern maker and designer, and I'm going to talk a little bit about how
to backstitch. Backstitching actually's more of a reinforcement. It's similar to slip stitching,
but it actually gives a little bit more strength to the seam itself. By going through and starting
underneath and pulling, you go forward as you would with a slip stitch, but instead
of keep going forward, you go back one. So you go back, and this is the underneath. You
go back right where...about where you started. Push the needle through once again. Go through
the top. And then you go...start back where you had on this...ended before. Push it down
through. You can push it through, come back up the top, and then you go back right where
you had started. Push it through. Come forward to where you left off. Push it through. Go
forward. So it's forward and back, forward and back. What this backstitch does again,
it gives you a better reinforcement of the seam, so that it's a little bit stronger strength.
And that's a backstitch. My name is Daniel King, and good stitching.