Stretch Belt

[ericwh]

1.5" Elastic. I used this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074JY9XJ5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Apparently there is both cotton and nylon elastic in the mil spec. This stuff is pretty stretchy, so the belt is fairly short to get good tension. It is also much softer than the stretch webbing on the Eddie Bauer belt.

The 1" mil spec webbing grips well in the wave g hook. Better than the elastic grips in the hook on my EB belt. Plus 1.5" g hooks are a little harder to come by.

The sewing looks like crap because I couldn't get my wife's machine to do 2 layers of webbing + the elastic. It kept tangling in the uh... bobbin compartment.

 

[sneaky]

Did you adjust your tension settings on the wife's machine?

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[ericwh]

Did you adjust your tension settings on the wife's machine?

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When I was sewing 2 layers of a softer webbing to 500d I played with the tension a lot and ended up with it set to 7. I think it might go up to 10? This is your basic Singer unit, I'm not sure of the model. Using a #16 needle.

So I went to that setting for this project. I would help it get started using the knob and then it would do like 1 or 2 stitches and act like it couldn't pull the needle back up through. I would investigate and find a tangle in the bobbin compartment. So I gave up

I think this 1" webbing is mil spec and it's a lot tougher, especially at the edges when I do the box stitch - I was thinking two layers of it was just too much.

Any recommendations?

 

[Jedgar]

Bigger needle bigger hole will make it easier for the thread to come through the fabric, crank the tension all the way up top tention is what pulls the thread up through the bottom. Turn it by hand instead of using the foot feed.