Stitch strap right through loops?

[Tross]

How do I run stitching through loops like these reins?  Is there a special foot or machine for this?  I encounter this problem all the time making bridles, reins and tack.  Thanks ahead of time for any responses!

[BigSiouxSaddlery]

These are hand stitched.  A machine can't sew through both ends of a loop.  

[mike02130]

I'm not a tack guy but if I'm sewing a keeper on a belt I use an awl. 

[Rahere]

Often, it's feasible to sew through leaving a lot of slack thread, and tighten up once basically assembled. The giveaway is that the threads aren't perfectly aligned.

[jcuk]

11 hours ago, BigSiouxSaddlery said:

These are hand stitched.  A machine can't sew through both ends of a loop.  

I agree and a lot safer especially at the business end of the reins.

Hope this helps

JCUK

[Silverd]

Those loops are hand stitched in as is most of the bridle since there are buckles or loops at each end of the cheek pieces that prevent use of a machine.  Browbands and nosebands can be machine sewn but cheek and head pieces are only sewn by hand that I am aware.  

 

Big Sioux taught me this!   ...And she knows.

 

Silverd

Edited May 28, 2021 by Silverd

[Squilchuck]

On most larger strap items I'll machine sew one side of the loop, use clinched shoe nails to attach the other side of the keeper, then put a stitch or two between keeper and buckle. Will hand stitch that fine stitching through small items if I have to, but what a pain. -John

[Tross]

Thanks everyone for your responses.  Hand sewing these is just too time consuming for me.  I long ago started using chicago screws on my western stuff for this reason.  Also, I was wondering if there is a presser foot that will help sew right up to a loop?

 

 

[Dwight]

Take the loop . . .  and with no thread in the machine . . . punch holes thru one side.

Sew the other side onto the bridle . . . 

Then sew up to where the loop would go in on the other side . . . remove the thread . . . and make holes through the bridle . . . like you would sew it.

Cut the bridle thread and bobbin . . . about 8 inches long or so . . . and hand stitch the 4 or so stitches thru the loop . . . then 4 or 5 stitches afterward . . . double them back so it is tight.  You are done.

it's a piece of cake once you have done it a half dozen or so times . . . becomes almost as fast as machine sewing (I use a Tippmann Boss).

May God bless,

Dwight

[afssfA]

I'm not a tack guy but if I'm sewing a keeper on a belt I use an awl .