Anyone have info on a "baseball stitch"?

[wolvenstien]

I know I saw a how to in one of my books on a “baseball” stitch, but for the life of me I cannot find it in the books I have. What I am doing is replacing the vinyl covering on a mace a friend gave me for my birthday. It was a 5x8 piece of vinyl that was wrapped and glued to the handle and then wrapped with thread in a spiral from top to bottom. I removed this and intend to replace it with a 5x8 piece of tooled leather that I was to but up end to end and use lace to attach the two ends together. I cannot find anything other than hand sewing to do this and I do not want to hand sew this. The leather I am using is only 2-3 oz, and once it get tooled, it will still be a bit wet so when it is laced together it will be stretched a little.

Any ideas or anyone know where a how to is for something like this?

Thanks Mike

[SmilinJim]

The baseball stitch is shown in 'The Art of handsewing leather' by Stohlman.

Jim

[MatthewD]

check this to see if it might help

http://www.tpub.com/content/aviation/14218/css/14218_243.htm

But Jim is right, the best demostration of the baseball stitch is in that particular book

[wolvenstien]

Art of handsewing page 47... Someone else on another board clued me into where it was.... Turned out that the piece I was tooling I tooled a bit too hard and it cut through... so i had to go back to the first piece that I started that was just a hair too wide, so it overlapped and I used a wax thread to to a single sides handstitch. Turned out fairly well if I say so myself... I will add a pic tomorrow.

Thanks guys for the help.

[wolvenstien]

Here is a pic of what I ended up doing.