Here are a few questions to answer:
1. Do you enjoy backstitching?
2. Do you do it as you go or at the very end?
3. Does the amount of backstitching in a project influence your decision to stitch a pattern?
1. Ummm… no. Not particularly. 🙂
2. Usually I do it at the end, but it depends on the piece. If it were something with a lot of backstitching, I might be tempted to backstitch as I go.
3. Not really; at least, not consciously. I never really thought of it too much, but I realize now that the Mirabilia and Passione Ricamo designs to which I tend to be drawn don’t really have a whole lot of backstitching to them. I also like to do band samplers and other designs which contain a lot of specialty stitches, so the backstitching in those designs also tends to be fairly minimal.
btw, have you visited Artistic License?
Teresa Wentzler’s blog:
http://www.twdesignworks.com/blog/