Mattress Stitch

On 9/8/2010 8:42 AM, Donna wrote:

You all are brilliant. Ladder stitch - now I've got it!



Donna,

I thought the same thing. Mattress stitch - what? Ladder stitch - do it
all the time!

sue

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Susan Hartman

On Sep 8, 9:41*am, Susan Hartman wrote:
On 9/8/2010 8:42 AM, Donna wrote:



You all are brilliant. Ladder stitch - now I've got it!

Donna,

I thought the same thing. Mattress stitch - what? Ladder stitch - do it
all the time!

sue

--
Susan Hartman

I guess I've been doing it all along too but never
knew either name, always called it a blind hem
stitch...or a variation thereof.

Nancy

On 9/8/2010 10:41 AM, Nancy wrote:
I guess I've been doing it all along too but never
knew either name, always called it a blind hem
stitch...or a variation thereof.

Nancy

Blind hem is done differently because, of course, it's not a seam. But
you are right, you go within the fold of the hem so that no thread
shows. Then you pick up a thread or two of the main fabric to which the
hem attaches.

Dianne

On 9/8/10 11:41 AM, in article
, "Nancy"
wrote:

On Sep 8, 9:41*am, Susan Hartman wrote:
On 9/8/2010 8:42 AM, Donna wrote:



You all are brilliant. Ladder stitch - now I've got it!

Donna,

I thought the same thing. Mattress stitch - what? Ladder stitch - do it
all the time!

sue

--
Susan Hartman

I guess I've been doing it all along too but never
knew either name, always called it a blind hem
stitch...or a variation thereof.

Nancy
Wonder if these are all "regional" names - I've gone off to look at "ladder"
and it's what I was taught as "blind seaming" or blind hemming.

Cheryl

On 9/9/10 7:25 AM, in article ,
"Cheryl Isaak" wrote:

On 9/8/10 11:41 AM, in article
, "Nancy"
wrote:

On Sep 8, 9:41*am, Susan Hartman wrote:
On 9/8/2010 8:42 AM, Donna wrote:



You all are brilliant. Ladder stitch - now I've got it!

Donna,

I thought the same thing. Mattress stitch - what? Ladder stitch - do it
all the time!

sue

--
Susan Hartman

I guess I've been doing it all along too but never
knew either name, always called it a blind hem
stitch...or a variation thereof.

Nancy
Wonder if these are all "regional" names - I've gone off to look at "ladder"
and it's what I was taught as "blind seaming" or blind hemming.

Cheryl


And it had a myriad of uses - closing up fabric around cushions, ripped out
seams, fixing leather gloves, an lined awning (man doing that job was over
30 years ago and my shoulders just remembered the ache of standing on a
ladder to fix that rip with out a trace before some party for the people my
grandmother worked for)

C