Cast stitching
Hi, I have a question about cast stitching. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I always fail to achieve the desired effect of this beautiful stitch on both sides, one is great and the other is even and flat and I would like both sides to be the same. Advise :)
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I have found it toublesome to produce stitching with slanted stitches on both sides when stitching thin buttero and closely spaced holes. An example would be wallet interiors with total thickness of ~1.5-2oz with a Rocky Mountain Leather 2.7mm french iron and 632 linen. I typically stitch left hand priority, left needle to the bottom of the hole, cross right needle to the back of the passing left needle (between left needle and thread) tension slack down and towards me and pass right needle to top of hole and cast left-hand loop over needle. I seat the stitch with right hand down and towards myself, left hand up and away. This is stitching towards myself with slits slanted up and away from me. With this technique, I can get great looking stitches on the left, but right side end up flatter. Tapping down does improve them but still not truly slanted and as nice as the left side. My deduction has been that with soft and thin leather, if technique is correct the variable that can make the greatest influence is moving to a thinner thread, and larger stitch spacing. Even then, on thin and soft leather maintaining a beautiful stitch on both sides remains challenging, at least for me. If anybody has found a trick to this I'm all ears!