How To Hand Stitch Leather and Make a Beautiful Belt (using a Stitching Pony)
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- After owning my stitching pony for more than two months, it is time to show you how to use it by making a beautiful belt. I will show you in detail how to use a stitching pony for hand stitching leather, also known as saddle stitching. In order to demonstrate this I will quickly make a belt out of vegetable tanned leather and stitch all around the edges to make another beautiful handmade belt. This is now my third leather working project. Please let me know what you think about it in the comments below.
My name is Tony. I am a guy from the Netherlands who speaks bad English with an even worse Dutch accent. I like to try out new hobbies and create stuff. The things I like to do are very random so I try to try out as many hobbies and crafts as possible and take you with me on that journey by making these video's.
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Thank you so much!!!😊
Awesome!
Good to hear!
Excellent work!
One thing I noticed when hand repairing some upholstery piping: when working with a single long piece of thread, work from the middle if possible - with 3.5 meters hanging out in two directions from where you start instead of 7 meters hanging out from one end. As you noted, there's a lot of pulling through when there's a long tail. It's in fact quadratically bad - working through a 7 meter tail is four times as much work as a 3.5 meter tail. By doing it in two halves, you end up with half the work!
That's some solid, time and head ache saving advice. With the 7 meter thread I was walking almost to the back of the shed to pull it through and had to untangle it numerous times. For all larger future projects I will definitely use smaller threads. Thanks for taking the time to help me! Have a good one! Tony
I did the same thing with the length being 4x the stitch line... a great deal of work, but I didn't know how i should do the smaller sections and how they should be joined together.
Hi Frank, Yeah I read somewhere online that it saves a great amount of time stitching in smaller segments since you don't have to pull all the thread through and untangle it a lot of times. Now we know better 👌 Thanks for your comment! Tony
@TonyNeedsHobbies Thank you. I'm still experimenting with the smaller segments. The stop and start points are not my favorite look... but a better alternative. Once again, thank you for your video.
amazing stuff
Thank you!
Nice work, and lot's of patience. One thing, if you use pliers to pull the needle, make sure they are flat faced and not serated. Otherwise you will put burrs on the needle and you don't want that.
Hi Dana, Thanks! What I love most about the reaction section, is when people give me tips an advice on how to improve further 😃 It is appreciated a lot and I will surely take it into account next time I will be stitching leather. Thank you so much! Tony
Thank you.
You're welcome. Thank you too, for watching 👍
Oh my God..o wish I could get classes from you.....
Thank you for the compliment, Isingoma! Just try doing it and I'm sure you can get there as well 🙂 Cheers, Tony.
Je stiching pony zag er top uit. Mag je trots op zijn. Ik ga er zeker 1 maken voor mijn messen schedes.
Dankkjewel Klopman! Maak je zelf ook messen, of vooral leerbewerking? Groetjes, Tony
Hey Tony,
Nee maak messen en schedes. Maar de schedes nu nog gewoon tussen mijn benen klemmend 😉
Goto be sure to use a creaser or edge groove to ensure straight seems
Yeah, I definitely learned a lot since making that belt/video. It looks good though, but maybe it was a bit premature to make an instructional video, with just that minor bit of experience 😉 Anyway, thanks for watching and commenting!
Just wonder how long it takes to hand stitch all around? I tried hand stitch a backpack with 2 layers of 1.2mm veg tan leather for unknown reasons part of it was extremely hard to pull the thread through (need needle driver pliers and took hours to go through where as some part was very easy to stitch). Does the hole size or leather thickness/density or thread size affect the stitching time?
Hi ddr80! For me it takes about two hours to hand stitch all around a belt. I found out recently that I actually use needles that are too big for the thread that I use so I was able to optimize a bit. Too thick neeldles make pulling it through a bit tough sometimes. The combination of pricking irons and how hard they were punched into the leather, plus needle and thread size decide how easy the stitching is. If you need pliers to pull the needle through, there is room for optimization and with a bit of practice you will figure it out. Hope that this is of any help to you. I appreciate you watched my video and commented. Greetings, Tony!
Very good work. What height is 4 cm leather, what thickness did you use ???
Thank you! The width is 4 cm (or 1 5/8 inch) and the thickness is 3,5 mm (or 9 ounce) thick veg tan leather. Great to make belts and sheaths out of!
what is the point of stitching the belt all the way down if it is not two pieces of leather?
Hi Christopher, that's an excellent question. It was mainly for myself to practice more with hand stitching. Also for decorational purposes. I personally think it looks good. Anyway, thanks for watching my video, it's appreciated! Tony
@@TonyNeedsHobbies Ah ok. Looks great mate. Keep up the good work!
Are you using a paint scraper to skive the leather?
Thanks for watching my video. It's supposed to be an actual skiver and came with a cheap tool set from china. But, it's a piece of garbage and I've bought a much better one recently.
does this work with faux leather?
Hi Aine, Can't think of a reason why it shouldn't work, however, I have never tried. Thanks for watching!
The thread may rip through