Originally Posted by
nativetexan
hmmm, the stitches show a lot but look neat. Interesting. i hate it when I hand sew binding and my stitches show. but then i'm not great at hand stitching anything.
i agree ..i don't like stitches showing on any of my hand stitched work. when my grandmother was teaching me, she had me remove all the stitching from many sleeve & skirt hems ..
no stitches were to show, even from the inside. she taught me what she called "hidden stitch". it's also called ladder stitch now. the images in this tute, that i posted link to, show the stitches being made. when finished, and my stitches are much smaller than those shown, the stitches are not seen at all. i use hidden stitch on my applique instead of whip stitch, and i use it on all my bindings. front stitched by machine and then finished on backside w hidden stitch.