My tips for a "machine" look with Saddle Stitch

[Tugadude]

Thumbs up anytime someone quotes from "My Cousin Vinny".  

The topic took some interesting turns and valid points made all around.  Thanks are due the OP for the effort and for trying to help raise the bar.  JeannieH made a good point about consistency.  

In the end, we all have individual aesthetic preferences.  Nothing wrong there.

[sbrownn]

Sometimes it is nice to be able to have a hand stitch mimic a machine when there are specific areas on a piece that you can't do on the machine but want to match.

[Les No6]

Well I’m a Yorkshire man we call a spade a spade, don’t have opinions it is what it is this is a saddle and this is a Master Saddler 

 

[Les No6]

This is an old timey bridle stitched 18 to the inch with box keepers.

[Les No6]

This is a coach pad the work of a black saddler

[JLSleather]

Stitching is straight, in line.  That other stuff is some kind of foreign thing.. angled stitches seem to be quite european.

[bermudahwin]

45 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

Stitching is straight, in line.  That other stuff is some kind of foreign thing.. angled stitches seem to be quite european

@JLSleather

Stitching is angled, in line. That other stuff is some kind of foreign thing...

Straight stitches seem to be quite American.

Edited January 24, 2019 by hwinbermuda