Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 319: Split Back Stitch

We recently learned #314 Split Stitch. Today, we will also split the stitches, but using the Back Stitch.

I found clear instructions for the Split Back Stitch at Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials.

Here is my photo tutorial:

Take a Straight Stitch forward,

come up, a bit further ahead.

From here, you work the Back Stitch,

by going into the middle of the previous stitch.

Notice that you insert the needle from the top. This is

unlike the Split Stitch where you split the stitch 

from the back of the fabric. 

Continue in the same way.

To make the final stitch neat, make it shorter.

Here I have worked the ordinary Split Stitch in green.

See how the needle comes up from the back of the 

fabric to split the previous stitch.

There is little difference on the front, 

but if you look at the back, you can easily see

the difference. Please also notice how much more

thread is needed for the Split Back Stitch

Should you need to unpick the stitches, the ordinary Split Stitch (green) is so much easier to remove as you have a neat line of 'Running Stitch'. The thread in the Split Back Stitch (rust) is much more tangled up.

Homework:

Add to the three samplers