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Sewing patches onto leather vest question

Hello,

I have a question regarding sewing patches onto a leather vest. My son dropped off his vest with 5 patches in various sizes. After doing a bit of research online I found sites recommending using polyester or nylon thread. They said cotton thread reacts badly with the chemicals left after the leather is tanned. My trip the TSWLTH netted the perfect thread color in 100% rayon. Does anyone know if that presents any problem with leather. I hate to redo these patches a couple months down the road. I also found information regarding stitch lenght, needle size, and a caution to be extra careful that the lining doesn't get caught because ripping and stitching again is not a good idea. I did not, however, find any suggestions for how to hold these patches still while sewing. I had my son put on the vest and then taped the patches with plain old Scotch tape. Everytime I moved the vest, the tape popped off. After a few trys, and many strips of tape, they finally stayed put. One of my supply catalogs has a product called "505 Spray and Fix" adhesive spray. It's supposed be repositionable. Since my son plans to send his new motorcycle club buddies to me with their vests I thought I'd better check on the patch sticking problems. Any suggestions on this subect?

By the way, I found 27 junk messages in the first 30 postings on this group. Is there any way to stop these people?

Thanks for your help,

Liz W.

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Liz W
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i have some ideas regarding your news group configuration

it looks like you are accessing the alt.sewing news/usenet group through Google via google groups

alt.sewing is a **public** news group so any one can post any message (an honor system) if it were a **moderated** group then someone would prevent access by spammers and their offending messages

if you use news reader software to access news groups you can usually configure to ignore and not diplay certain types of messages.

hth rob

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robb

Rayon, like cotton, is cellulose. Except rayon is a much weaker fiber than cotton, generally speaking.

I'd probably take 'em down to the shoe repair guy, who does nice work and has the correct machines and thread.

Kay

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Kay Lancaster

Sadly, no. This is Usenet (Google the term if you are not familiar with it) and unlike Yahoo groups Usenet is not moderated. The regular posters sometimes try to remind newbies and junk posters about usenet 'rules' but those who post garbage and ads tend to just jump in and not read the newsgroup FAQs or charters....

However using a news reader program such as Agent (and not using Google groups which utilizes a browser interface) allows you to filter unpalatable subject lines and authors.

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IMS

Thanks to you all for your help. I'll stick with this group even though I cannot block the junk messages. It's still a great place to get help.

Liz W

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Liz W

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