Saddle Stitch Tutorial | Leather Craft Basics

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Saddle Stitch Tutorial | Leather Craft Basics

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it was up Turtles Creek here with blackout outdoors

welcome to the first shop video in my cramped working quarters today I want to show you how I sell my leather projects together using a saddle stitch here's just a quick example to show you the stitch I'm talking about this is white thread I have on the sheath I made and you can tell there's a consistency to the stitch you don't have the stitch darting in different directions as you follow it up its line I'm going to explain all that in this video here are the tools I'm going to use today to accomplish a full stitch two needles here because the saddle stitch is a two needle type stitch with a single thread and like I said I will explain more of this as the video progresses I'm gonna use a lighter to end the stitch to burn it here's just my sample workpiece for today's video

scissors to cut the thread when we're finished and then a small pair of groove list pliers to help pull the needle through the hole should we need it have my workpiece clamped in the stitching Pony the steps that got me to where I am right now which is ready to stitch is I've established my stitching like a consistent distance from the edge of the work piece I've marked my holes and then I punched the holes now use the rotary points today to keep this hole bigger because what I'm after I want to show you is a slant you can get with this stitch as it sits so to start our stitch what we're going to do is back stitch you can count one two three you can go four if you want today's purpose I'm just going to go to what I'm going to do is pull one needle through that and then even the sides out like I said the saddle stitch is a two needle stitch and essentially what we're doing is creating a chain of figure eights so I just took the front needle passed it through the hole way to the back now I'm passing the back needle the whole way to the front pulling that tight interfer link is created and repeat that process front needle pulled through to the back take the back needle and pass that through to the front pull that tight and there's a figure eight I'm going to repeat this process stitching towards the hole we started and that will complete our back stitch sometimes the needle can be stubborn just because of the extra thread in the hole you just have to always make sure that the needle never passes through any thread this is what's known as a back stitch because the direction I want to stitch is this way so what I'm doing is just securing the starting of this stitch and it's doubled over in the stitch bed right there so what I'm trying to do is make it as clean as I can and just make sure when I go so when I'm pulling that last one through so I want to pay attention to where it's laying and how it looks in the stitching bed and what I want to do because this one's a little goofy just going to pass it needle through there just sort of lay a little bit cleaner all right now is our back stitch so it's slant I was talking about the reason why it's going to happen for us today is because this hole was big enough to actually create a slam if you make really tiny holes in the leather you're not going to be able to give the thread priority and get it to sit at a slant so how I get that slant and achieve it if that's what I'm going for in the stitch I passed this is the front of my work piece pass it through there first I leave a loop I want to make sure this loop is important because what we're doing is basically the first step in a box knot or a reef knot I'm going to take my back needle pass it through then so you can see the thread that I pass from the front then the needle is going on the side of the hole so I'm going to do is and wrap this around the needle and then pull through and essentially that's putting the needle through that loop I created I pull that through when I go slow you can sort of see how these are tightening on each other and it almost looks like I said the first step in a box not and like I said what that's doing is it's giving the neat that a thread prior already in the whole I'm just going to keep continuing this and move my way down to the stitching bed I'll show you how to finish the stitch and there's the last one already do our back stitch now if you pay attention to where these stitches are sitting in this hole look where the end of the needle is it's sitting in the bottom of this hole traveling then to the top corner of this hole and that's being repeated bottom top bottom top bottom top that gives you a really nice clean looking slanted stitch let's finish this stitching now and with a back stitch same sort of thing we did at the beginning because these last two holes I'm designating as my back stitch or stitches if you will three holes I don't give priority and do the slant that's because I use thicker thread

I just haven't messed with it it's really going to clog up the hole if you will

and every time you go through you have to make sure this needle is not passing through any of your thread you don't do not want to do that it's going to compromise that strength of your thread as you can see I went through there as I'm trying to talk and do this want to pull that out what you see is what you get here at blackout could edit that out and show you I don't make mistakes but guess what that's not the truth the fact is if you catch a mistake you take it out so sometimes what I'll do because in traditional stitching people will use an awl as their stitching I don't do that because it's a lot harder on the hands and I try to just use holes I don't think there's one method of creating holes one better than the other in my experience but sometimes what I'll do is come from the front kind of create the hole using my needle so when I pass through from the back it's already been there and I'm really not compromising going through any threat so I'll pass that through there pull out the pliers okay that's one and now to finish this because we only left ourselves two stitching to finish this is the front of my work piece so now this needle is going to finish this stitch so I'm going to do is this pass this then through to the back side pull that through and there we go I'm going to take this out and flip it around all right so this is the back side of my workpiece you can see these scars in here obviously if I'm making something I wouldn't use this piece of leather that's why I'm using it for today's video as an example so this is the backside our backside of our project so what I want to do is just trim the thread as close as I can pretty much to that hole now this can be accomplished with scissors and I'm trying to show things trying to show you these videos without super specific tools but there are specific tools for the called thread cutters that you can get real close in there and really control you're doing but scissors if you're careful you can get pretty decent results so now we have snipped our thread I'm going to take this out of the stitching Pony pull out that lighter and we have our little ends right here's where we ended it so because this is a wax synthetic thread I can melt the ends of this if you're going to be using linen or cotton obviously that stuff's not going to melt I'm going to do is just kind of touch the lighter there get this I can I can tell they're accepting some heat and they'll mushroom down kind of smash them with my finger and then sometimes I'll actually take my not taking all or something and then try to push just try to push that in a stitch holders a little bit more and that's all there is to it I want to show you why this saddle stitch is used in utility projects so I'm going to compromise a stitch by cutting it out discovering that you know that could happen in the field over time alright that stitch completely gone now but the beauty of this saddle stitch is essentially you having two lengths of thread running the entire workpiece independent of each other so what I can do now is turn this over time basically it's going to pull this one one one row out so you can see right here this is where the cut took place in that little stitch we started with but there is still a length of thread running the length of the workpiece keeping this tight together and that's why the saddle stitch is used and why I use it all the time so there was our first attempt at filming indoors let us know if you like it if you want to see more if you do want to see more the easiest way is to just click the thumbs up button that lets us know you like what we're doing and we will continue the shot videos have a couple leather related videos for you to check out as well until the next video this is Kirk with black au outdoors later Turtles