Tip for Sewing Thin Silnylon Fabric
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2017
- a quick tip for using a scrap of material to get a better starting stitch in thin and slippery fabrics like SilNylon and SilPoly from MakeYourGear.com and ripstopbytheroll.com.
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When I have fabric that bunches up I use a piece of paper underneath the fabric to stabilize it. After I've sown it together I just rip the paper off. Works great! My favorite kind of paper to use is the thin tracing paper but regular printer paper seems to work well too😁
Wow! Of course that would work. Thanks
Wow thank you so much for this tip. I have been experimenting trying to find a way to solve this but have only induced more rage. Great piece of advice.
Brilliant tip. I always had trouble when using ultralight materials.
Thank you.
Thanks for the comment! I hope this tip serves you well
That's a very neat solution. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a decent RUclips video's worth a million! I'll definitely try it. My standard 'sacrificial sewing seam-start' method is to pin a strip of paper about an inch wide and three inches long into the seam; start sewing in the projecting tongue of paper, and the feed dogs pull things through fairly easily. (I sometimes use an even-feed attachment on the foot, but this method works with a regular foot, too.) The disadvantage of the slip of paper 'start' is that there are pin-holes in the fabric. If you're careful and align them with the sewing line they just disappear, but that takes a bit of forethought. It would be possible to use a tiny bit of double-sided tape to hold the tongue in place, but there's a risk of gumming-up the needle (yuk!). Another negative is that sewing through paper which is later pulled out of the seam (it tears along the needle perforations) means the stitch tension is left slightly uneven by the change in thickness. Having a few inches of spare thread at the start of the seam/hem lets you even things up, but it's quite fiddly and time consuming. Sigh. All in all, I think your solution is far superior, so thanks for uploading!
Thanks for the tip!
Great tip!!
Ha! So simple but so, so, SO useful to know
Ty! I’m going to try this!
Can't thank you enough, I was having this exact problem! Thank you so much!
I'm glad it helped! What projects are you working on?
@@ak_lost4goodYou need paper underneath or a walking foot.
awesome
What model of sewing machine are you using? I'm looking to purchase a machine for an industrial application sewing ripstop, xpac, and similar materials for lightweight backpacks.
I am using a Bernina which easily handles the materials you are looking to use. Now if you were going for a true industrial machine, you might look at Juke or similar. If you are a homegamer looking for a good machine to make your own gear, I would check out the sewing machine threads on www.hammockforums.net for some good recommendation and discussions.
what size needle and thread are you using? how much pressure do you have under the presser foot? what kind of thread do you use? Thanks for the video.
@Keefe Borden - I use 80/12 Universal needles with Mara 70 Thread and on my Bernina machine "4" is the middle of the pressure range. Thanks for the Question!
What’s the best types of threads to see silpoly ect? Thanks anyone that can give some input. I don’t know anything about it. I know the basic of how to work the machine to make a stitch. But that’s as far as I know. An kicking around making a silpoly tarp an some other small things.
Most people making gear from silpoly will use Guterman MARA 70. Guterman MARA 50 and TERA 80 are also options but I have only used the MARA 70 in my projects.
Check out ripstopbytheroll.com/collections/diy-tarp-shelter-kits or dutchwaregear.com/product-category/myg/diy-kits/ for your first DIY Project. Having all the supplies included makes it easier and less confusing. Both of these companies have very good reputations.
Sew for awhile and you'll learn that thin material needs to be pulled carefully as you sew.
What sewing machine do you have?
BERNINA 215
@@ak_lost4good I like the fact you can turn the speed down and sew slowly