Good habits pay off in more professional looking garments. Backstitching (or back tacking, for those with a different Anglo accent) keeps your seams from unravelling.

Here’s a quick video about backstitching. Make it a habit.

p.s. I’ve been away from the camera, because I got interviewed and helped work on an ebook about video marketing! You can check it out at Video Marketing Success Book.

8 Comments to “How-to Backstitch, Sewing Machine Basics”

1. Fashionisto — March 11, 2008 @ 4:27 am
   

   …perfect, I’m gonna hold on to this blog in my bookmarks, im sure i canuse it sometime, do you prefer singer?

2. sewingbee — March 11, 2008 @ 8:48 am
   

   I do prefer Singer, probably because that’s what was always in my parent’s homes! When it came time to buy my own machine, I just naturally bought a Singer.

   From what I’ve read, the cheap plastic Singers don’t stand up to hard work, and the computerized ones aren’t as good as competitors. However, the workhorse “old reliable” mechanical Singers always get great ratings by those of us who just need to sew.

3. siska — November 18, 2009 @ 6:40 am
   

   Thank you for posting this simple yet helpful video.

4. Susi — January 25, 2010 @ 9:32 pm
   

   Thank you so much for posting this video tutorial. I just bought a sewing machine and want to learn how to sew. I live in the country and don’t know anyone around here. Videos like this are so awesome for someone like me. I learn from watching someone do it rather than reading about it. I wish I could find more tutorials like this.

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   [...] at the seams, quite literally of course. I use 3 different tools for this task, seam rippers for  back stitching, scissors to remove any serging, and an x-acto knife for the chain stitching.  Plain seams can be [...]

6. rose — February 15, 2011 @ 6:38 pm
   

   Thanks for the video! I am working on my first sewing project and this will help me with learning to backstitch.

7. Mathias — March 16, 2011 @ 3:44 pm
   

   I have been searching the net to buy my new machine for 3 days now. Found this site. Appereantly they laucnhed today. Great prices! Can’t see how they are able to compete!

   sewseam.com

8. Anna — January 16, 2012 @ 1:05 pm
   

   This is probably the best video tutorial on any subject that I’ve seen – simple and clear. Thank you!

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