Union Special 43200G - Chain Stitching in UK

[jimmy]

@simonc:

Dude that's not chain stitching, this is chain stitching!

I am not sure if your been sarcastic or not but that is clearly a lockstitch machine. It has a walking foot

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[Giles]

Unity is fully functional again.  I had set one of the paramaters to be the thickness of two ciggie papers and it should only have been one.  She is a sensitive old gal.  Here is Rob the Unity surgeon:

[hectic]

Apropos…

Hey G et al, thanks for the timely Unionizing you did for me/my friend recently.

[Giles]

My pleasure Hectic…..............

[Geo]

can the hem of t-shirts be chain-stitched?

[Giles]

Just tried it on a cheapo very stretchy one.  Not altogether syccessful, but on a proper Tee (IH), it is likely to be a lot better…................When you come down, bring a selection......................

[Chris]

Does chainstitching stretch enough to work for a tshirt?  Seems like it would be possible, though.  Just need to use lighter weight thread and maybe reset the stitch length.

EDIT: damn, Giles had a faster and better answer…

[Giles]

On the Union Special, altering the stitch length is a major engineering job.  It means frigging around with a bunch of internal cams…...Not happening.....

But, the beauty about the chain stitch is that is stretches with the cotton on the Tee.  No problems there....

[Geo]

i think it looks supacool . . .

[Seul]

Man… Imagine a royal blue shirt with a duck brown-like coloured thread and wearing it on top of your 801s...

I think you're onto something here, Geo...

[Madame Buttonfly]

@Seul:

Man… Imagine a royal blue shirt with a duck brown-like coloured thread and wearing it on top of your 801s...

I think you're onto something here, Geo...

• Mrs G watches G, his calculator in hand, dollar signs rolling in his eyes, working out what he can charge for bespoke t-shirt chainstitching…

[Seul]

Seriously: has it been done?.. I dunno what it exactly doés to the shirt (strengthen it???), but it could look way cool…

[Geo]

do i get a discount for coming up with this business initiative? 

[Giles]

Yep yours will cost nothing  - the video rights for "Geo effing up a series of IH Tee Shirts" will surely sell for a bundle…...............

[Geo]

cheeky sod . . . i might be a natural . . .

[Seul]

At "effing up" - définitely!..

[Geo]

Well I wasn't specifying

[Seul]

It's ok - I got your back…

[Geo]

Yeah - by sticking a fekin knife in it . . .

[jimmy]

good to see her back and running 100%. not to burst any of you guys bubbles but chain stitching t shirting will just make the bottom hem keep rolling up outwards or be all wavy likes its been over stretched…. not a good look. shirts on the other hand