- Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:53 pm
#16441
Howdy! I'm new here. I recently found, purchased and retrofitted w/ a brushless servo motor a '68 Consew Model 18 and am learning to use it, get the stitching right and keep the machine tip-top.
So much to learn...only made my first stitch on a sewing machine, a borrowed Singer 413 Stylist, in May.
For the moment I'm a waste-thread manufacturer above all. The floor is littered with Tex90 white Nylon thread.
Got a possibly goofy question: In making practice pieces I began attempts to make welting. Around the house I collected together cording to accomplish that. I found the on-hand cord that appeared to make the nicest welting to be 1/4" screen spline, and looking up that 'cord' found it cost roughly the same or less than 'real' welting cord.
Question is, is there any compelling reason not to use it?
Thanks!
FA
So much to learn...only made my first stitch on a sewing machine, a borrowed Singer 413 Stylist, in May.
For the moment I'm a waste-thread manufacturer above all. The floor is littered with Tex90 white Nylon thread.
Got a possibly goofy question: In making practice pieces I began attempts to make welting. Around the house I collected together cording to accomplish that. I found the on-hand cord that appeared to make the nicest welting to be 1/4" screen spline, and looking up that 'cord' found it cost roughly the same or less than 'real' welting cord.
Question is, is there any compelling reason not to use it?
Thanks!
FA