Thread: Backstitching?
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Old 09-04-2019, 07:46 AM
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bearisgray
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Default Backstitching?

Do you do this when you piece?

If so, when/where?

I do not - because I have not been able to do "neat" backstitching - the fabric rumples or I wander off the previous line of stitching. It also adds thickness - and I've read a gazillion posts about using thinner thread to reduce bulk in the seam line.

I do use a shorter stitch length when strip or paper piecing.

I also will edge stitch a pieced border to keep it from coming apart - which I learned to do after I had a pieced border that came apart.

I have learned so many things by having to do re-dos!
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