Pulled
Backstitch
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| This backstitch is worked like the backstitch you did on the last part, except for two things. First, you want to pull consistently with every stitch. Second, the needle alternates from being above the stitching fiber and being below it. Take a look at the series of photos for a closer look. |  |
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| The back is the cable stitch. Notice that the needle is pointing up and the traveling fiber is below the needle on the left for one stitch over two threads. Then, look at the photo on the right, and you see that the needle is pointing down and the traveling thread is above the needle. All this fuss and bother is done simply to keep the holes you create as you pull from being blocked by traveling to the next stitch. Note the stitching fiber from the upper right corner in each photo that is slanting off to the right. This is my beginning fiber, which I anchored with a waste knot. I buried it when I finished all the pulled back stitch work. | |
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| The photo on the left shows the method I used
to stitch the vertical rows. Rather than ending my fiber every eight
stitches, I chose to travel from one row to the next. But I did not want
to block the openness of my pulled stitches, so I traveled on the diagonal
to start the next row of eight. I started at "1" and traveled to
"2" and then worked downward from "2" to
"3." I continued across until I reached "4." That
finished all the backstitching so I buried my thread at "4" and
worked across to where you see the needle. There. I cut my fiber as
closely as possible.
The right-hand photo shows that I have cut off the waste knot, re-threaded my needle and am burying this end. I am slipping my needle under the backside of stitches down the side of the box. My very first stitch began at "A." By moving downward at "B," I give the first stitch the same amount of tension as the other stitches. |
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