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Top designers share their favourite stitching tips

"Keep your backstitching smooth"

“Backstitch is used to define the quirky bespoke letters used in my designs and I find that beginning the backstitch with a shorter length of thread, measuring approximately 35cm long, helps to avoid the thread getting knotted as you stitch. I’m constantly unwinding the thread in my needle so that it’s

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