Embroidery with a back stitch: tips for beginners

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Recently, many designers who make patterns for cross-stitch, began to supplement it with a back-needle stitch. It allows you to give the finished product a finished look, emphasize small details, or simply create the desired image. However, not all beginner needlewomen are familiar with the correct technique for its implementation. That is why they are lost, sometimes they even refuse to embroider such works. Although, having mastered it once, in the future it will be possible to make even whole pictures with it.

Execution technique

Before you start embroidering with a "back needle" stitch, you should understand in detail the classical technique of its implementation. To work, you need a canvas or fabric with clearly visible weaves of threads. It needs to be fixed in the hoop and pulled well - it will be easier to work. For embroidery, a needle with a sharp tip is suitable, as for sewing or beading. But ordinary embroidery needles should be put aside so as not to spoil the finished product.

The floss thread must be folded in half, so that a loop is obtained on one side, and thread it through the needle. And of course, you still need scissors,to cut off the remaining thread. Now you can perform the first back-to-needle stitch. Embroidery should not have knots, and therefore you need to properly fix the tip of the thread. To do this, you need to pass the needle to the desired distance (4-6 weaves), and then through the loop and tighten. The thread will hold perfectly.

Now you need to pass the needle one more step, and then, returning back, stick it into the previous hole, pull it out at the same distance and again thread it into the previously made puncture. This is how all other stitches should be done. On the wrong side, when embroidering with a needle back stitch, the new thread will pass already under the old stitch. This will give your work a cleaner look. To secure the thread on the other side, you just need to wind it several times around the stitches and cut off the rest.

Tricks of the trade

However, even knowing how to work with a "back needle" stitch, it is not always possible to beautifully design embroidery. It's just that not everyone is familiar with some of the tricks. Firstly, this seam is performed as the last one, when the embroidery is already completed, so that the stitches lay flat and do not damage the pattern. Some needlewomen prefer to do this even after washing and ironing the embroidered picture.

Also, the stitches should be even and even so that the work looks neat. The size may vary depending on the embroidery itself and the pattern. For paintings that are likely to be under glass, a long “back needle” seam is also quite suitable. Scheme fortablecloths, napkins or clothes involves only short stitches. It's just that otherwise the thing may be uncomfortable to wear.

In closing

There is probably no more discussed technique than this stitch. Some embroiderers like it, and they are ready to decorate any of their work with it. Others completely refuse it, because they do not find anything attractive in it. But the truth, as it should be, lies somewhere in the middle. Of course, you should not make a "back of the needle" seam where it is not provided. But you can't do without it for embroidering small details on large paintings.