Using the Speedy Stitcher - Repairs etc

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The handy Speedy Stitcher sewing awl should be included as a survival item in your pack, it is very effective for repairs, it can easily sew heavy items, leather, pack cloth, canvas, etc. In this video we show this sewing awl and how to use it, as well as some Mukluks that were made with it. More info on our site http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/speedy-stitcher/

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Video Transcription

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we're going to talk today about the speedy stitchers sewing all it can be used to sew leather or canvas multiple layers of fabric we use it as I mentioned for sewing up the the mukluks that we make and we sew to a to a plastic sole and we saw this quarter a nylon to it and we're using the speedy stitcher to make these stitches right here all right I'm going to unscrew unscrew the cap here show you a few things about it stuff down there for a minute alright if I undo the kit at the end cap here you can see that there's a spool of a little bobbin of thread inside of there that thread is waxed thread which makes a lot easier to use because the thread will kind of hold its shape a little better it'll tension up real nice

we really like it it works very well the speedy stitcher does come with a it comes with a couple of needles and we're going to use the straight needle today alright now what I want to show you is is the thread comes from that bobbin through the wood handle comes out this little hole right here and then there's a little groove right there and the thread goes through that groove and through this little metal cap here there's a hole in that you can see and if you look in this little shaft right here that holds the needle there's a little groove cut in that shaft and there's a reason for that one one side of the needle is rounded the other side of the needle has a groove in it you can stick your fingernail in it my groove goes right up to where the hole is what we want to do is we want to place that groove in the back side of the needle in line with the groove in the needle holder right there now we'll pull us out a little thread okay so we'll shove that through the hole there we go all right now once you've done that we just put the hole put this little cap on here and we want to just tighten that down pretty snug all the thread runs up through that groove so it's no big deal now I'm going to go ahead and show you a little something here if I let the thread just come straight out of the handle here and through the needle I can pull I can pull thread out of there very easily now you notice there's a little little thumbtack looking thing here what you do is you wrap the thread around that one time and then as you're sewing you use that with some thumb pressure here and and it gives you ability to tension thread so you can put some tension on it and snug up your stitches okay so now I'm going to show you how we how we do all this I'm going to pull some of this thread back out just for for my first stitch through I did I like to have just a just a little piece of thread like that's plenty and I'll show you why in a moment alright now let's go ahead and get started on this thing now what I want to do is just take my needle and put it on that line and keep your eye usually spread my two fingers apart a little bit and okay now we've pushed through now you notice this little tag of thread here now what I want to do is I'm going to pull out just for our demonstration here about eight inches of thread okay now what we're going to do is we're going to pull the needle back out okay now here's your on the hand on this cell on this hand that's not holding the needle I usually take my fingers and hold the thread like that and then I take my my first finger and I let the thread wrap around that and that way I could actually pull some tension I can pull thread because I'm holding that okay now what we want to do is we're going to come over here about on a quarter load more than a quarter of an inch we're going to punch another hole through here now notice when I pull the needle back a little bit notice what happens here there's a little loop in it okay when you pull back because this piece of thread is in the groove on this side of the eye and on the back side of the eye there's no groove it's just rounded so when you pull back especially because the threads waxed it sticks and it makes a little loop right there so what we want to do is we want to shove the free end of the thread through that loop and then I'm just going to grab the thread like I told you here around my index finger now I'm going to put my thumb right here on the on the needle and I'm going to pull that back through the fabric okay so I've now pulled that back through there and I've made my first stitch now you want to have enough thread right here so that you can I need just a little bit more so when you push through right there it doesn't try to pull out your first stitch that you made okay so now we're ready to come over here I need to maybe go a little bit closer this fabrics a little go on that far is a little too much okay so we'll go back through the loop there we take some tension on there with the right hand we pull out with the left there say I've got my I pulled some tension on that okay we'll go through again here and use a little caution especially when you first start out here because it's easy to poke your finger and it can do a nasty little job of it too all right I'll do another stitch here and I'm going to probably terminate it right here shortly I'll do one more do one more stitch and one thing you'll find is the more the more of this should do the better better you'll get at it all right now what I want to do here is I'm going to go ahead and pull me pull me a little extra thread through here now I'm going to just clip that right now now what I've done is I've left an end on this side not you just you can just tie a square knot in that on the back side I usually tie those you tie several several of them just to make sure they're nicely done then just take the ends now we've done dead a little bit of a little bit of stitching and like I say it that's not doesn't look too bad it's not you know you'll find the as you get going like see this is getting a little straighter nicer here as you do this stuff the more you do it just like anything the practice you get better and more uniform as you go but you know we just sewed through actually five layers we just sewed through five layers of fabric here and it's very very simple and it's the same same method we use to do this stitching right here on the mukluks