[amayausers] Re: Best fix for loose stitches

  • From: "Roland R. Irish III" <signman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:22:41 -0500

You may have to pull a few threads before you hit the right one, but with
practice you'll narrow it down! Better to pull it through and glue it than
to cut it-and now have TWO loose ends in there!
Roland

> From: Mike Garber <agraphic2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:08:26 -0700
> To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [amayausers] Re: Best fix for loose stitches
> 
> I never thought of pulling the thread back through....can't wait for a
> loopy thread....
> 
> Roland R. Irish III wrote:
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>> If you just pull the stitch back through and then fraycheck on the back,
>> don't cut it...less chance of it letting go and pulling out the front later
>> on. If we worry about it, we use superglue instead ONLY on the back-and the
>> tiniest drop you can. This will bond the threads together and they will
>> never pull out or wash out.
>> If we have a real bad spot with looping, usually from a bobbin problem, we
>> stop, cut out the offending area, back track on the stitching and restart
>> that area with tighter MT-and generally you don't see the 'patch' you have
>> created and threads won't pull through.
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