Originally Posted by mpeters1200
Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
Originally Posted by mpeters1200
I've not used a double needle in my regular machine either....was just thinking about it as I have to be repairing a leg on my sons dress pants. I have no clue how to do it. You can see the double needle that threaded the rest of the seam. They don't have to be nice looking, it's just the bottom of one pant leg....but he has to have dress pants for his upcoming choir concert and he ripped the side seam on his only pair.
All of his ripped jeans are going to magically turn into shorts for the summer....mostly cause I don't know how to repair anything. I won't patch knees, been there done that...just gotta figure out this seam thing. Clothes are so much harder than quilts!
You can always fake the double stitching by doing two parallel lines of single stitching, one at a time. From the right side, no one would ever know.
That's tempting. And the machine shop gave me a couple accessories I didn't think I'd use. I have this seam guide thing that just screws on, it is nifty, and they gave me this metal thing to hang on the needle area. It guides along a previously sewn seam...so I could sew one seam on the outside, slap that sucker on, and sew another straight seam on the other side....oh the possibilities.
I'm truly scared that I'm going to sew his pants shut...or sew them too tight for him to get his foot in. I might run to Goodwill and see if they have some reasonably priced dress pants in case I botch the fix!
edited to add: can you see I'm trying to come up with ideas to use my machine right away!
It's easy once you get into it. When repairing a double seam, I always open the inseam seam a long ways so I can get to the side seam easily. Do the repairs to the outer double seam (you can even get regular jeans thread that is the thicker matching golden color) put the jeans thread as your top thread and a thinner matching color ini the bobbin and your 66 wil just sew it like butter. Once you have the double seam done you can put reg thread back in machine and sew up the inseam and you are done. It's quite rewarding once you get the hang of it. My husband is a great thrift shop shopper and he brought me home jeans to alter, repair and shorten for our grandson and for 50 cents a pair for levis that looked nearly new I feel gratified saving my grandson money for new jeans. Just dive in and go for it. I used the same method for patching knees, open inseam so you have lots of room then close it back up when done. Hope this helps.