Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stitch made by inserting the needle at the midpoint of a preceding stitch so that the stitches overlap by half lengths on the back of the fabric and appear continuous on the front.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of sewing in which each stitch overlaps or doubles back on the preceding one, the needle entering behind the thread at the end of the stitch already made and coming out in front of it.
- To sew with stitches which overlap each other. See
backstitch , n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
- transitive verb To sew with backstitches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun sewing A type of sewing
stitch where the stitch goesbackwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat. - verb To
sew with a backstitch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one
- verb do backstitches
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Examples
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a seam in a pair of men's breeches on that occasion and I thought it was fine when I could sit in my low chair and "backstitch" seams in a pair of breeches for Uncle Dave who was our faithful colored family fire-maker.
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Hell, I could join the ends with a backstitch and no one would notice much.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009
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Hell, I could join the ends with a backstitch and no one would notice much.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Using a wide zigzag, fairly long stitch length, zigzag along where the two pieces abut (be sure to backstitch at both ends to keep it from unraveling).
Arch revisted, box in detail - and a great postcard katelnorth 2008
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Backstitch a few stitches at the start of your line, and sew up to just beyond where the top of the folded pocket is - and backstitch a few more times for security at that point.
Pencil roll tutorial katelnorth 2008
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Sew a 1/4″ seam along both sides from the bottom to the top of the short side, making sure to backstitch five or six times at the top and bottom.
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I actually still have one side of the zipper to backstitch I do an overcast on the edges and then back stitch the middle but since I have time now, I figured some FO pictures were in order.
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I actually still have one side of the zipper to backstitch I do an overcast on the edges and then back stitch the middle but since I have time now, I figured some FO pictures were in order.
November 2007 2007
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Nowadays folks don't have to sew unless they want to, but when I was a child there warn't any sewin'-machines, and it was about as needful for folks to know how to sew as it was for 'em to know how to eat; and every child that was well raised could hem and run and backstitch and gether and overhand by the time she was nine years old.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall
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Lap ends one-fourth inch and backstitch closely at each edge of flap.
Make Your Own Hats Gene Allen Martin
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