100 Stitches - Back Stitch

Time for another 100 Stitches post.  This beautiful stitch is the Back Stitch. 
I love doing this stitch and use it all the time.  It is a very nice stitch to use for outlining. 

I am using perle cotton floss, this is DMC #4200 Color Variations

 I used a ruler and a water soluble marker to draw a straight stitching line to follow:

This stitch is going to be worked from right to left on the stitching line.  The first step is to come up through the fabric a little bit in from the right edge of the stitching line:

Then take a small back stitch to the right with the needle going into the fabric at the end of the stitching line:

Pull all the way through to form a stitch:

Now bring the needle up through the fabric a little ways to the left of where the floss first emerged:

 Pull all the way through:

 Next, go back into the fabric in the same hole from which the floss very first emerged:

Pull all the way through to form the second stitch:

 Continue in the same way, coming up through the fabric to the left of the last stitch:

Pulling through and going back into the fabric in the same hole as the previous stitch:

Keep stitching to the end of the stitching line:

When I got to the end of the stitching line, I secured my thread on on the underside of the fabric by running my needle under a few of the stitches.

Here is a look at the underside of this stitching line:

The back stitch is number seven on the list of 100 Stitches and is found in the Flat Stitches category.