Ladder Stitch

Up till now, all my jackets and coats have been in handwoven coarse
wool/cotton fabric.

My current project is a blazer for my wife made from a light commercial
polyester/cotton fabric and I can not get away with sloppy stitching
anymore.

Joining the collar at the lapel calls for a "ladder stitch" but I have
no information on how to do this so I have gotten by with just a slip
stitch which is invisible on my other coats but pretty ugly on this.

If I were doing woodwork, it would call for filler and light sanding.

Is there any bandied out there that would cover this over?

More importantly, how does one do a ladder stitch? All Goggling brings
up is for knitting and other unrelated problems.

js

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Try:

http://wingsnthings.tripod.com/ladder.htm
- has a good explanation/illustration

http://www.sewingnow.com/free-sewing...oll-100158.php
- has a picture about 1/4 of the way down.

HTH,
Lisa

Jack Schmidling wrote:
Up till now, all my jackets and coats have been in handwoven coarse
wool/cotton fabric.

My current project is a blazer for my wife made from a light commercial
polyester/cotton fabric and I can not get away with sloppy stitching
anymore.

Joining the collar at the lapel calls for a "ladder stitch" but I have
no information on how to do this so I have gotten by with just a slip
stitch which is invisible on my other coats but pretty ugly on this.

If I were doing woodwork, it would call for filler and light sanding.

Is there any bandied out there that would cover this over?

More importantly, how does one do a ladder stitch? All Goggling brings
up is for knitting and other unrelated problems.

js

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wrote:
Try:

http://wingsnthings.tripod.com/ladder.htm
- has a good explanation/illustration

http://www.sewingnow.com/free-sewing...oll-100158.php
- has a picture about 1/4 of the way down.


Thanks. Helped a lot. Futzed around on a practice piece and wanted to
kick myself for not acting earlier. It looks wonderful but I am
reluctant to rip out what I did and the "client" says it looks fine.

There is always next time.

Thanks,

js

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