Hand Sewing Tutorial Videos

 Hand Sewing Videos

There are a couple of hand sewing tutorial videos at the following link.  While several of them are for sewing on cloth, the techniques for the most part will also work well on leather.  LINK

R Scrivenger Pocket Pouch

R Scrivenger Pocket Pouch

By Eric VanAlstine
Re-published from the Hunting Pouch Facebook Page with permission by Eric

May 18, 2020
Time for some end of the weekend fun. Here is a couple of shots of my next pouch and pattern...Yes, I make a pattern.. I like to draw it out, envision my final project when it leaves the bench. i'm not givin too much away as to the final product but I will post as I go along. The one thing I will admit up front I am going to incorporate what I call The R. Scrivenger pocket...it's going to be all the rage when I am done.. LOL. Just ask him....he will never know the sleepless night he caused me over this.

May 19, 2020
Stay stitches in place, I have come to enjoy putting in stay stitches, they have saved me many times over...time to lay out some stiches and start sewing. Here is a shot of the stay stitches in place on a portion of this project. As with all my projects I use only an awl poking my holes. Stay stitches gives you that hands free ability without the leather flopping all around. The next photo is my stitching set up. Some use one needle sew, some use two, I start with my general sewing setup using two sets of double ended needles, and old saddle maker took some time to explain why. When I share my next pic you will understand why as well.

I have this little pinking punch...when I say little, I mean little...this is a 1/4 inch Osborne pinking punch, rare is what most people will call it...I call it a true treasure. Trying to find that punch is like a needle i a haystack. Here is the Osborne punch laying some ground work on a pouch that I decided to finally make. It's going to take some time to put this one together...This is my R.Scrivener pocket refined. I had a thought last evening and decided it needed a revision.

June 2, 2020
Just a couple of shots of the revised Scrivener pocket in progress. Ol' Robert said he had a scratch to scratch on his last pouch. Well I am not short of that scratch. I have studied a particular pouch only through photographs for nearly 3 years. It has driven me to the brink of insanity. After several attempts at patterns, each one ended in the trash, and two failed attempts with leather....it was not until I had a long phone call with a fine gentleman that provided a comment on this particular pouch, that it all made practical sense. Another pattern, and now we are forging ahead with my version of this iconic contemporary pouch, done in my own fashion and design. So this evening I have the stay stitches in place on the rolled binding, I am far from even the thought of being done, as this is just the pocket on the pouch.The rolled binding is held in with 5 stitches per inch, which gives me 100 stitches that nobody will ever see, then I am going to run seven stitches on the face at 7 stitches per which equates to 135 on the ace and 235 stitches on a pocket!!! Why????because as Robert says it's a scratch that needs to be itched. You want to know the kicker??? this is the back side of the pouch...a double pouch at that... Get the straight jacket ready.....

June 23
OK, time to start bring the cat out of the bag. A while back I posted that I was going to incorporate what I call the Scrivener pock on my pouch, well it started out at just an additional pocket sewn to the back of the pouch, then my creative side started to itch a little,...ok alot...I put the pocket on the inside, well sort of...effectively making this not a double pouch but a triple pouch....Disclaimer time here...this cat is far from done, we are still creating, when she is finished she will look really old...back to the post. so the first pic is a shot of the front two pockets, don't worry I have something really cool for the binding around the flap, but I want to show that this is a double pouch. Now the middle shot is an open pic of the back pocket that truly is another pouch...it's totally separate from the front two pouches, and the third pic is with the back flap closed. Now the strap attachment is odd but cool, it goes right through the top of the pouch, so far two antique harness rings will be the attachment to the harness style strap. I have an idea for it as well, more o that later, but Yes Robert S. it will have some pinking work done on it as well. Do not worry about the fringes I know they look pretty uniform, but the next time you see them it will have a personality on its own. 

 A great informative article about frontier hunting bags, ball pouches, or whatever you want to call them, is on the Frontier American Illustrated News at: https://www.frontieramericanillustratednews.com/amp/the-hunting-bag-of-the-19th-century-frontier

French Saddle Stitch Videos

French Saddle Stitching

The following links will take you to several videos on the French saddle stitch.  

                                            https://youtu.be/7ue3zBg0bdA?t=551

 

Saddle Stitch in Detail Video:  https://youtu.be/7ue3zBg0bdA?t=551