Originally Posted by
DogHouseMom
I am in company with most of the others. I don't backstitch ... almost never on a pieced block. Not even on the outside edge of a block that I plan to store.
I backstitch when making garments, and I backstitch when adding my binding and on the corners of my binding.
that's pretty much it.
I do the same, especially on the binding corners before turning. Before I shortened my stitch length I did have loose endings, but it was solved with the shorter stitches.