Originally Posted by
QuiltE
There's only one place I backstitch is on the final outside border, as it will never have a cross stitch on top of it.
To my way of thinking, even there on the border a back stitch isn't needed as the binding will be applied to create a cross stitch.
But because many of my quilts are handled, used in workshops, stored and refolded, while they are still just tops, I usually run a line of smaller stitches all the way around the perimeter of the completed top about 1/8" in.
Jan in VA