> I doubt you would need a leather needle to sew Kid, but you might get one > just in case....for the machine I mean. And since it stretches a bit, if > you have a walking foot...one with "feed dogs" to move the fabric on top > as well as underneath, you might find that helpful. This assuming you're > doing it by machine. > If you plan to bind it by hand....never mind...
There is that small matter of the boning... I did do a binding on lightly boned stays by machine - stitch for two inches, skip the 1/4 inch over the bone, stitch another 2"... then I went back and hand-stitched where the bones were. The idea, of course, is to enclose the end of the bone in leather, otherwise it will wear and poke through just below the leather. I suppose with light plastic boning you can sew right through it, but the Wissner is a harder plastic. I'm not sure you could put a needle through it without breaking the plastic, even if you have an industrial machine that could sew through it! By the way, some original stays have a single stitch through each bone (whalebone) about an inch from the top and an inch from the bottom to anchor it in the channel and keep it from sliding. -Carol _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume