Try using button thread. It most resembles silk button twist and will not rip through your leather.
Do not use the commercial silk embroidery threads that you find at your Jo-Anns or Walmart etc., they break, a lot. You can find good quality silk threads online now a days if you really want to go that route. But button thread should work well. Also, if they make it for your machine, get the teflon foot and plate. It makes life so much easier when working with leather or fake leather. :) The thicker the leather the more likely it will heal however. The thinner, no dice. Chiara On Tue, April 25, 2006 4:07 pm, E House said: > The only two things I've found to worry about with leather are: > A) The thickness of the leather, & making sure that your sewing > machine can > handle it--for the browncoat, I used suede that was nearly 1/8 > thick, and > though my machine actually was capable of handling 5 layers of it, > it caused > all sorts of problems. (But it was the only suede I could find in > the right > color, darn it!) You just can't finish thick suede as nicely as you > can > finish garment-weight (~1.5oz-3oz) suede, and you'll find yourself > calling > the ruttin' coat a piece of gos se often, dong le mah? > > B) Getting the seam right the first time. Any hole you make in the > leather > won't close back up again the way fabric would, so ty to aviod > ripping out > and re-sewing seams--it'll be obvious, and it will weaken the > leather. > > Also, though a lot of people seem to like to use upholstery thread > with > leather, I didn't like the result at all; I used glazed cotton hand > quilting > thread, and it worked very well. > > -E House > (It's more useful than Klingon, right?) > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
