My first sporran, and a desperate plea for help!

[Ryan Ross]

A technique I used on leather - due to not having very abrasion resistant thread, was to imitate the stitch of a sewing machine. I was sewing together my school satchel when I did this, and I happened to have access to a really tiny latch tool - I think that it was used for mending nylon stockings, but I am sure that a tiny crochet hook would work too.

You have two ends of thread just like the double saddle stitch, and the process is to draw a loop of one of the threads through the holes then pass the other thread through the loop and tighten both so the cross over is inside the leather.

I must have sewn that satchel up a dozen times using tripled ordinary sewing thread, but in the end I used some fine wire and that lasted until I didn't need it any longer.

I have seen decorative stitching and knitted jewellery made with a fine copper wire wrapped in different colours of silk, which was rather extravagant but very eye catching.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

The problem with that type of stitch is that if the thread on one side of the seam breaks, the entire seam can come apart; this is because each of the two threads stays on the same side all the time. With the saddle stitch, if one thread breaks at one point, the other thread will still hold the seam together.

Just a thought...