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Product Description
This clever tool has helped handy people sew heavy-duty material by hand since 1909. We find it useful for repairing ski boot liners (tongues, etc.), running shoes, cross country ski boots, back packs...you get the idea. Take a look at the video link, use is pretty simple but it helps to see it done once or twice.
- Includes Speedy Stitcher® Sewing Awl, one straight and one curved needle as well as a built-in bobbin wound with 14-yards of waxed thread.
- Made in the USA
STITCHING INSTRUCTIONS (from the Speedy Stitcher site)
1. Starting from the backside, push the needle through the material of your project. On the front-side, fully draw out the thread, long enough to do the entire project - remember to add an extra 3" of the thread.
2. While keeping your thumb firmly over the thread on the handle of the awl, hold the thread and pull the needle back out of the hole. Then start it through the second hole.
3. Push the needle through the second hole as far as it will go. Then pull back slightly on the awl just until a loop is formed.
4. Pass all of the thread through this loop.
5. Hold the thread end taut. Pull the needle out of the hole, forming a lock-stitch. Pull taut, the lock-stitch knot should be buried in the middle of the fabric layers.
6. Release more thread between the needle and material to allow for the next stitch. Continue this process until your project is finished.
7. After the last hole on the backside of your project, grasp the loop and pull the thread out of the hole.
8. Cut the thread, leaving two 3" lengths to tie off.
9. Tie the ends in the knot on the backside. Trim the excess thread.
10. To safely store the Speedy Stitcher® Sewing Awl, remove the needle from the threaded post and place it back in the appropriate slot. Screw the chuck lock back in place. Presto!
