Help with two stitch technique

JRey · Post by **JRey** » 11 Jun 2010 06:35

I was hoping someone who has experience like Matt Cross doing the two stitch.
I was wondering:
which side you start your first thread through, like pent towards you or hex towards you.
after finishing a side how you continue to the next side?

thanks a lot for any advice
JRey

WyrmFyre · Post by **WyrmFyre** » 11 Jun 2010 07:18

Its the same as doing a three stitch; you start on the hex, and you just do one less stitch.

Hope this helps

JRey · Post by **JRey** » 11 Jun 2010 07:28

not to be anal about this but when doing the two stitch it an uneven number holes which makes the last thread com out on the opposite side of where you started. ie thread pulling away from you

HippieTom · Post by **HippieTom** » 11 Jun 2010 08:31

what ever you are doing is not a two stitch if what you are saying happens
Perhaps the name is misleading, for a two stich there are actually 4 stitch motions starting from hex facing you it goes out(away from you)-in(towards you)-out-in
hope that helps

WyrmFyre · Post by **WyrmFyre** » 11 Jun 2010 10:05

My bad, should have explained a little better

Its easier to talk holes i think. In a two stitch bag, you would make four holes, in a three stitch you would make six. This does not include the holes you make when you are attaching the bleed holes to the next hex.

will_T · Post by **will_T** » 11 Jun 2010 10:49

i think it's already been resolved, but i made this to explain the difference between 2s and 3s for someone else a little while ago, so here's a visual aid (and also could be used for a template)!

JRey · Post by **JRey** » 12 Jun 2010 22:33

haha that's just a complete misunderstanding on my part. i was already doing this. thanks dor the responses to clear this up, JRey

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 15 Jun 2010 08:57

Take careful consideration about the corners on the pents. Sometimes if I leave too much flange on those areas and do a tight/semi-tight gather, that area won't be well covered and I end up having holes that leak fill.

Someone should post pics on how a two-stitch should look like from the inside out. I understand you need a deep bite to make it work, but the corners give me he most trouble whenever I make a 2-stitch bag.

will_T · Post by **will_T** » 15 Jun 2010 14:03

i'll try and take some pics, i'm about to start a 2 stitch. for what it's worth, that's my actual template for 2 stitch bags, and for no particular reason when i made it i made the pents' corner gaps the same as the width of the stitches. (the 3 stitch is old, i only used it 2 or 3 times and didn't really like it)

JoshP5agek · Post by **JoshP5agek** » 15 Jun 2010 16:38

wait, whoa whoa whoaa

you don't stitch the short sides of the hexes?
I have been, I know I don't have bleed holes, but is it okay to stitch them shut?

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 15 Jun 2010 17:17

stitching those spots where two hexes meet isnt wrong, but i wouldnt do it if i were you... theres a couple reasons: wanting to change the fill, takes more time to stitch them together when you dont have to, etc.

very cool stuff here

Matt_mcfarland · Post by **Matt_mcfarland** » 15 Jun 2010 20:10

really? how do you skip them? ive always wanted to do that cause i get a lot of bad looking folds where the hexes meet, and that would stop that. im confused here.

PegLegHolly · Post by **PegLegHolly** » 16 Jun 2010 20:27

usually if you adjust the first and last two holes on your hex you wont need to stitch the two together.

does that make sense?

JoshP5agek · Post by **JoshP5agek** » 17 Jun 2010 08:46

PegLegHolly wrote:usually if you adjust the first and last two holes on your hex you wont need to stitch the two together.

does that make sense?

I just tried it today.
Mind = Blown

brianbear · Post by **brianbear** » 17 Jun 2010 08:47

hope this helps with two stitch questions.
i also showed how much i gather.

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 25 Jun 2010 18:42

I think I get it now. The bleedhole stitch should be adjacent to the pentagon corner, or at least meet the corner. I think I was overshooting the bleedhole stitches in my technique quite a bit.