How To Keep Stitch Line Looking Uninterrupted When Changing Threads...

[thekid77]

Hey folks,

When hand-stitching an item with a long run of stitching, eg, belts, how do you keep the line of stitching looking neat and uninterrupted if you have to change threads?

or do you just use one super-long length of thread?

I am curious because I have seen many hand-stitched belts where the part where the person changed threads is either invisible, or non-existent...

Thank you in advance for sharing

[Dwight]

If you have to do it, . . . end one thread and start the other between the layers. That is the only way of making it truly invisible that I know of.

Sometimes a thread will break or I run out of thread in the bobbin, . . . and if it happens at the tongue end, . . . I'll camouflage it in the "going around the corner" of the belt. Otherwise I just pull it all out and start over.

May God bless,

Dwight

[BDAZ]

The poster mentioned hand stitching. I will center the knot and clip the thread as close to the hole as possible then invisibly melt any visibple end and simply start the stitch in the last used hole. I will use the same technique on a machine stitch and hand stitch until I get to an area that I can restart the machine stitching. I use a saddle stitch.

Cya!

Bob

[thekid77]

Thank you very much!!!

[ramrod]

rather interesting topic. on any of the projects i've made, i've left the overlap visible. most people i've talked to like it because it shows a "real" handsewn technique. i kind of like it myself - especially when the customer has asked why the overlap is there.