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Backstitch

Name: Backstitch: 3D embroidery lesson
Uploaded: 2026-10-12
Duration: 14 s
Description: Come up one stitch length ahead of where you started, then go back down at the end of the last stitch and come up one stitch length ahead again, so each stitch meets the one before it and the thread makes one solid line. This is a simplified diagram of needle and thread on plain cloth, not real hands.

Come up one stitch length ahead of where you started, then go back down at the end of the last stitch and come up one stitch length ahead again, so each stitch meets the one before it and the thread makes one solid line. This is a simplified diagram of needle and thread on plain cloth, not real hands.

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