Our DIY tire cover project

themoreweexplore wrote:

SpeakEasy wrote:
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For that last little bit, instead of having to find someone with an industrial machine, consider doing it by hand with one of these:

speedy stitcher

I think you would love this little tool!

-Speak

You just became our new best friend. Thank you! I think our project might be a little big for a hand-stitched job, but we LOVE that tool. Thanks for introducing it to us.

I've been using that speedy stitcher for the last 30+ years on anything you can think of. It is very slow, but there almost is nothing it can't sew. IIRC it took me around 8 hrs to put a duck tape edge on a 2' x 8' berber carpet runner for our trailer, but the results were outstanding. I like to use the 100% nylon upholstery thread for the strength and durability. You can get a fair good array of colors from WM up to around 8 to 10 as I remember. I resewn/repaired handbags, redone awnings by cutting off the bad section and resewing the rope into the good side, put edging on custom sized carpets for various projects including our trailer, a host of custom storage bags/covers for about anything you can think of, and the list is almost endless. It can sew things that you could never even consider doing on a machine outside of maybe a custom industrial one. I recently made a custom designed diaper/travel bag for our granddaughter out of one of her dad's old Navy flight suits and saved the $100+ cost of buying one not as nice or unique.

One must have accessory that I use is a strip of old canvass doubled over to about 6 to 8 thickness into a 4" sq so I can force the needle thru really thick materials giving it something to go into and not dull the needle point.

Larry