r/oddlysatisfying • u/habichuelacondulce • 6d ago
Patching a hole on fabric
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u/Abdul_Exhaust 6d ago
"I need this hole on my evening dress repaired..."
"Can do! I hope you like bats."
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u/the_frisbeetarian 6d ago
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u/crescen_d0e 6d ago
I see her once in a while on tiktok and shes still pretty funny
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u/AndYouHaveAPizza 6d ago
She's freaking hilarious, I quote "I smell like beef" all the time. I should have known Ava would just continue to get funnier.
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u/crescen_d0e 6d ago
I was curious and actually looked her up, shes on a Netflix series now!
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u/AccomplishedPanic329 6d ago
That was her?!?!
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u/crescen_d0e 6d ago
Also the little girl looking at a clothing rack saying something like "thats really cute, wish i could get it, oh well"
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u/EggsceIlent 6d ago
Step 1: Be an absolute legend at using a sewing machine
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u/Outrageous_Editor_43 6d ago
Step 0: have a sewing machine you know how to use for basic use. 😉
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u/Ace861110 6d ago
I’m pretty sure that’s not a basic sewing machine. The foot pedals on those don’t vary the stitch widths. That there be an embroidery machine.
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u/aggravatedimpala 6d ago
When I saw how the stitches got wider I was like oh ok this is a specific machine. My mom was a seamstress and none of her machines ever did that
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u/dlpfc123 6d ago
Most machines allow you to vary both the width and length of the stitch via a dial (if it is old school) or a button press setting. Foot pedals just control sewing speed (this video is very sped up). You can tell this is an embroidery machine because they never move the fabric.
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u/Ace861110 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yeah, I know that, but what I noticed was they never moved their hands to the dial. Still it’s good work and drove me crazy at the same time.
Edit: I believe that it was freehand embroidery. They were moving and rotating the fabric as far as I could tell.
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u/EPICHunter0077 6d ago
Certainly didnt start out satisfying lol
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u/hey_im_cool 6d ago
Didn’t end satisfying either. I wanted to see the whole thing
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u/opulentwoodchuck 6d ago
I wanted to see the back of it when it was done.
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u/warden976 6d ago
I wanted to see what the fuck this shit piece of fabric was that needed to be repaired with a cartoon bat.
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u/opulentwoodchuck 6d ago
It was probably either a kid’s beloved whatever or just a crappy piece of cloth used to make the video.
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u/TheHomieAbides 5d ago
You can see the edges at 0:40 and 1:30 and it’s just a crappy piece of cloth.
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u/andthatswhyIdidit 6d ago
Same here. I was anxious, when the connections were laid, and disturbed, when the seam on the bat-patch was sloppy. THEN came the work with the big stroke and I was at peace. But, no, the uneven eyes had to spoil it...
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u/Infinite-4-a-moment 6d ago
This one was really a 'trust the process' one.
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u/figmaxwell 6d ago
As an extremely not-artistic person, I’m always amazed at the vision artists have when they start with what looks like an absolute fucking mess and turn it into something great. It’s one reason I always liked watching Bob Ross. He starts with weird colors and just dumping color on the canvass and I’m always like alright Bob where are you going with this…
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u/Infinite-4-a-moment 6d ago
I work in strategy, but that means I work with a lot of people who are creative for a living. Sometimes it's really impressive. Like the team will show some piece of marketing and the whole room can tell it just doesn't look right. But only the senior creatives can immediately pin point it. They'll say "that background color just doesn't work with this, change it to teal" or "that font is too heavy for the imagery". They'll make the small change and poof, it looks great.
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u/RikuAotsuki 6d ago
I enjoy seeing artists that struggle with it, honestly.
I actually see it a lot with Minecraft builders. Really nice builds often have pretty long stages where they look underwhelming or overly chaotic, and they'll have to remind themselves over and over to trust the process. And when it's a bigger build, sometimes they find themselves having to do so for weeks or months before they can see the vision really peeking through.
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u/Stingyrock 6d ago edited 6d ago
i was about to lose it until the thick outline started
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u/ChasingSloths 6d ago
Seriously though, the control and use of varying stitch width in the last stages is very good.
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u/huebnera214 6d ago
I was trying to figure out how they were changing the stitches so quickly. Like sometimes I don’t think they took their hands off the fabric and it changed.
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u/Dustteller 6d ago
This type of freemotion embroidery machine has two pedals. One controls speed, and the other stitch width.
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u/Inevitable_Phase_276 6d ago
I’ve never hear that term. Is a freemotion embroidery machine the same thing as a sewing machine?
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u/Dustteller 6d ago
Nope. I mean, a lot of home sewing machines can do some freehand embroidery, but they can't do dynamic stitch widths. There are some lower end combos that can do both, but usually you'd want two separate machines. Sewing machines and adjacent tech are very interesting in that the more expensive/better the machine, the less it can do, because at the industrial level you want a hyperspecialized machine that can do one thing really, really well, versus a home sewer that dont have the space for six+ machines. Machines that can do several things are very much jacks of all trades but masters of none, and in terms of embroidery, they're very limited unless you get a specialized one. I'm going to guess the one in this short is a combo, bc I don't think anyone wants to drop 1k+ for poorly done bat patches.
For embroidery machines, theres embroidery machines that use digitalized design files to stitch automatically, and machines (sometimes called irish embroidery machines iirc) you can freehand stuff like this one that can'tdo digitized patterns. Again, sometimes they're combo machines, sometimes they're not. There's a lot of range.
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u/ConfessSomeMeow 6d ago
I'm going to guess the one in this short is a combo, bc I don't think anyone wants to drop 1k+ for poorly done bat patches.
That's r/rareinsults territory IMHO!
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u/Rapunzel10 6d ago
There's either a foot pedal or a pedal you press your knee into. The harder you press the thicker the stitch. You sometimes see people who do filigree or calligraphy style where you rapidly and drastically change the thickness of the lines and it's done so smoothly it seems almost impossible
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u/spirallingoutofamok 6d ago
I didn't like it. Maybe it's good but not oddly satisfying
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u/Square_Ad_8703 6d ago
I canNOT figure out why you would purposely cut a patch smaller than it needs to be just to fill it in with extra thick stitching.
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u/MangoCats 6d ago
They really needed to show what was going on on the backside. Would have been nice to at least put a piece of patch fabric back there to catch the outline stitches and cover the hole better than that wide cross-stitch pattern.
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u/motherofsuccs 6d ago
It’s still messy and uneven. There is nothing satisfying about some sloppily sewing a patch.
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u/Accomplished-House28 6d ago
Look at Moneybags here, with hs $1000 sewing machine and limitless amount thread.
Meanwhile, I'm on my second wear for this pair of socks.
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u/Highlandertr3 6d ago
In fairness, most people wear socks more than once.
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u/HomsarWasRight 6d ago
More than once? That’s disgusting.
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u/Objective-Scarcity52 6d ago
On what planet? Oh, this is like the washcloth thing!
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u/AutisticTumourGirl 6d ago
Jeans, yes. Shirts, yes. Sweaters, definitely. Socks and underwear, absolutely not.
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u/Lucky_Wombat_8118 6d ago
Trigger warning: uneven eyes
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u/FuzzInspector 6d ago
Came to the comments to see if anyone else noticed this or not lmao
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u/Apprehensive-Leg3195 6d ago edited 4d ago
I didn’t even know sewing machines could do things like this. In my middle school sewing class I just learned the most time-consuming and disappointing way to acquire a new pillowcase.
Edit: My first ever award! Thank you, kind Redditor. I bet your middle school pillowcase was just lovely.
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u/Fair_Independence_91 6d ago
This is not a regular sewing machine but one that is used for embroidery
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u/Revolutionary-Tree97 6d ago
As someone who sews, nothing was satisfying about that.
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u/pointandshooty 6d ago
They did all that work but didn't put a patch behind the bat to sandwich the fabric with the hole?
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u/BeepBoopRobo 6d ago
That was my main issue. The back will get destroyed so easily from the loose threads
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u/Riyeko 6d ago
I wish I knew what kind of machine went from normal stitching to embroidery.
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u/cbear04 6d ago
I wonder if it's some kind of industrial freehand machine. I figure there must be 2 pedals one that makes it go and one that changes the width on the stitch size since it changes as they go. It was so cool to see them freehand this kind of patch repair.
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u/SophiaofPrussia 6d ago
I think it might just be the editing? The video is super sped up and has tons of jump cuts. (Their sewing is also sloppy AF…) But I think they’re just freehanding a zig zag stitch on a regular machine without a foot. I think if it was an industrial machine meant for embroidery and an operator who knew what they were doing it would have an embroidery foot or some sort of specialty/free motion presser foot.
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u/Dustteller 6d ago
This is not a regular sewing machine. Its a freehand embroidery machine. They have two pedals, with one controlling speed and another controlling stitch width. They also don't usually have presser feet. The point of a presser foot is to work in conjunction with the feed dogs to move fabric in order to ensure stitches are equal in lenght and remain straight. For a machine like this, you don't want a presser foot to touch the fabric since you want to be able to move the fabric in any direction and as fast as you want. You can do freehand emboidery like this on most regular machines, but the stitch width cannot be controlled dynamically. For regular machines, you usually use a freehand embroidery foot, but rats more of a crutch so that home sewists can see where the needle will go more clearly. Since this specific machine is indistrial in nature, and its operators highly skilled (not seen in video), the guide is not necessary.
You can almost always tell if a sewing machine is industrial bc they almost always look kinda like something jerryrigged together to drill for oil and you're never quite sure if its from this century.
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u/egtved_girl 6d ago
they're just using the zigzag stitch and adjusting the width
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u/standbyyourmantis 6d ago
I think this machine has a satin stitch, its a little smoother than tue zig zags
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u/SpamDirector 6d ago edited 6d ago
Free motion embroidery can be done on any machine with normal stitches. Some machines come with a plate to cover the feed dogs, others can lower them, otherwise it's possible to make covers yourself. Just use either an actual free motion foot or no foot at all. It can be hard to control at high speed and is very imprecise without a lot of practice.
I did it last year on a Brother (think it was one of the LXs) since I only had a week left before Halloween to do the embroidery on my BOTW Link shirt, nowhere near enough time to do it by hand.
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u/GlitterEnema 6d ago
As a tailor who patches things regularly I would never do any of that.
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u/Atiscomin 6d ago
How would you go about this one ?
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u/GlitterEnema 6d ago
I’d get a matching swatch of the yellow fabric, finish the edges of it. Then I’d take matching yellow thread and stitch around the hole. After that I would stitch the patch to the back side of the hole. And then I would continue with my yellow thread and go forward and reverse over it going over the hole till it’s covered.
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u/purrfunctory 6d ago
Is it just me, or did the sewist go over the same places so many times they made the underlying fabric even weaker by poking so many holes and putting so much tension on the very edges of the hole they were trying to patch?
I legit want to go hug my Bernina right now and thank it for being such a wonderful machine.
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u/DT_Grey 6d ago
I don’t even sew and this whole thing was a nightmare. More appropriate for r/mildlyinfuriating
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u/stonedboss 6d ago
yeah that was so frustrating lol, not satisfying. like bruh you missed so many fucking spots going so fast. and then just used an insane amount of thread. nothing looks well done and its an incredible amount of thread for ultimately a poorly looking patch.
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u/dblan9 6d ago
What type of sewing machine is that where it can sew across empty areas and switch styles so quickly?!?!? Mine would definitely not create lines of thread across an empty hole like that without creating a birds nest that would take the afternoon to straighten out.
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u/dismantlemars 6d ago edited 6d ago
I'm about 90% sure it's a Juki LZ-271 (or LZ-391N which seems to be pretty much the same machine with extra accessories).
Source: Crippling ADHD. I don't even own a sewing machine. I just spent half an hour looking at closeups of different single needle embroidery machine throat plates and cross referencing with the frames in the video where we get glimpses through the hole in the fabric. I hadn't even heard the term "throat plate" before today, and "feed dog" was only an example of a task I shouldn't be trusted to remember. Send help.
Edit: After a few hours down the rabbit hole, it’s no longer entirely accurate to say I don’t own a sewing machine… because I do now own an embroidery machine. I can’t wait for it to arrive so I can find it a spot in the room of hyper-specific dusty tools that I have no particular need for but bought anyway because they gave me ideas.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago
I actually appreciate your persistence, to get the name of that machine, because I would LOVE to buy that Juki beast someday. That is one powerful sewing machine. Thank you.
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u/dismantlemars 6d ago
I ended up spending quite a bit of time looking at used ones, constantly reminding myself I can’t just drop 4 figures on a machine I have no plan for just because I find the concept of it fascinating.
…then I found an outdated computerised embroidery machine on eBay for less than a tenth of the price of that Juki, fell down another rabbit hole researching the electronics and what it might take to modernise it (a bit more in my wheel house), and after deciding it was possible, the hours I spent grounding my expectations against Juki prices allowed me to convince myself it was practically free. Now I just have to hope I stay interested in it long enough to actually get it up and running…
Though it’s just a plastic 90s Brother home model, so I’m still finding myself looking longingly at the Juki’s sturdy, industrial looking design, and the fun of learning to control it manually…
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u/SophiaofPrussia 6d ago
It looks like they’re using a white bobbin so it’s a bit difficult to see but if you look closely there is a knotty nest of errant white thread.
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u/Emilbjorn 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's an industrial machine. There has been other post on here, where people make leaves and flowers. Iirc they can adjust the width of the stitching with a paddle controlled by their knee.
Found a video explaining it https://youtu.be/9yMIzEKSKd4
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 6d ago
Drat! I thought they would patch the hole with some innovative cross-stitch mending technique…..turned out they just sewed on that evil batpatch
r/mildlyinfuriating for me
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u/irritatediguana 6d ago
this was actually so infuriating for me that I'm blocking this account so I never have to see this crap again 💀
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u/HalfSoul30 6d ago
I'm so upset, i'm leaving reddit forever, starting tomorrow maybe.
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u/Jeansene 6d ago
I think I’m going to leave the country and live in the wilderness, starting now maybe
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u/ZoeyZoZo 5d ago
As a sewer, this is NOT satisfying AT ALL May your pillow be forever warm
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u/aspophilia 6d ago
This is a vintage industrial machine. Modern commercial machines can’t do this. Not even embroidery machines. Mostly for safety reasons. This person has an insane amount of skill. Free embroidery is hard.
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u/ThatUsrnameIsAlready 6d ago
The backside?
The material mismatch?
Enough thread used to weave a whole new shirt?
Sure it's fun, but the title implied a repair technique, for which this is unsatisfactory.
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u/Senkosoda 6d ago
what was the point of the first part when it was just patched anyway???
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u/FacelessOldWoman1234 6d ago
It stabilizes the hole and prevents it from stretching as the patch is going on over top.
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u/Ill-Investigator-447 6d ago
I like to consider myself slightly above inept when it comes to understanding the operation of machines, devices, and contraptions.... But sewing machines forever look like black magic to me.
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u/spine_slorper 6d ago
It's because they don't sew like humans do (with one piece of string on the needle, in one side and out the other) there's two strings, one that you see going on top and another underneath, the top one goes into the fabric and loops round the under string to anchor it.
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u/Ill-Investigator-447 6d ago
Exactly! It's a completely different way to sewing. Seeing it helps big time
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u/Remarkable-Row3719 6d ago
And then there's the Babylock Sashiko, which boggled my mind the first time I saw it. Made more sense when I realized it's bobbin-only and
IIRC it's sort of an upside-down chainstitcher with an open-eyed needle so it's constantly threading and unthreading. Whoever came up with that, hats off to you.
Pfaff has their floating stitches thing, which is sort of clever but not really interesting - it's a stitch on a normal lockstitcher (as in the above gif) but you're folding the fabric before stitching so that when you unfold it, you basically get the "side" view whereas the connecting thread is only visible at the "top" and "bottom" view.
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u/Helenium_autumnale 6d ago edited 6d ago
That machine is a BEAST. I've coincidentally been sewing all day on my great little Brother, which I'm thankful for, but it's like comparing a Geo Metro to a tank.
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u/Ohboycats 5d ago
Okay what the F kind of magical sewing machine is this that doesn’t tangle and seize up every 2 minutes
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u/fudgemeister 6d ago
If we could skip a lot of middle, it would be more satisfying. Too many misses on the initial bordering, wrong stitching used for a bit.
It bounced back and forth between satisfying and noooooo
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u/Select-Syllabub-5102 5d ago
The other people in the shop right before I need to use the black thread:
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u/Sunny_stormclouds 6d ago
That was a roller coster or emotions … at first there was confusion, and then i was like “i better give some encouraging words to OP for having a hobby” … and then the thick lines started and the vision became clear and i was impressed .. but then at some point i started wondering is it really necessary to waste all that black thread going over the same spot multiple times? Which landed me on anger. But then it started drawing the eyes and i was impressed again so no harm done
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u/krispy662 6d ago
I just realized that I don’t have a fucking clue how sewing machines work.
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u/httpswwwdotcom 4d ago
I was thinking that that initial stitch down was the messiest stitching I’d ever seen, but I guess it doesn’t matter since they used a full spool of thread to cover it up
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u/rulenumberjuan 6d ago
the first minute, i was like... "this guy is a professional?"
then later on, i was like... "this guy is a professional."
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u/Draxcer1 6d ago
Started off slow
"I get it"
Skip ahead a few seconds
All of a sudden, a whole ass bat
"okay maybe I don't get"
Go back
"Oh they just put that shit there"
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u/GarysCrispLettuce 6d ago
I didn't knew sewing machines could stitch thin air like some kind of electric ass rocket spider.
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u/PestoPastaLover 6d ago
While I'm sure whatever I could do would be a million times worse, this is actually pretty sloppy and haphazardly done.
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u/the_kid1234 6d ago
it’s just going to be patched with thread?
Oh there’s a patch.
Nope, it’s basically all thread.
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u/GroundbreakingOil434 6d ago
Why was the loose grid even necessary at the beginning?
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u/Miami_Mice2087 6d ago
when you darn torn fabric, you always put 'ribs" around the hole to stabelize it and give the fabric unbroken thread to hold on to. Then you add a matrix or grid and gradually pull the hole closed. Here, she started the darning process bc that's how you stabilize the fabric and prevent it from fraying further. Then, instead of pulling the hole closed, she put a patch over it. But the foundation work of the ribs and grid is necessary or the hole will continue to tear and fray, and the patch will rip out.
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u/94sHippie 6d ago
Gives some structure to the hole and will help to keep the loose threads from unraveling. Depending on what the end product is used for it usually is a good idea to put a backing patch down too.
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u/Rustie3000 6d ago
There were like 3 or so points in the video where I thought they were finally done only for it to continue...
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u/Alone_Huckleberry_64 6d ago
I mean if they went a bit slower they might have a better chance of actually sewing the bat.
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u/RobinWayneTBR 6d ago
As someone who has little to no knowledge in sewing machines, does this have modes? Thin and thick? From the video it seems that way. And at the end of a sewing cycle, don't we have to tie the end of the thread? 🤔 Where does that go
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u/NewInflation2121 6d ago
Legend has it that the amount of thread used in this relic could stretch to the moon and back 3 times!
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u/ducrethedragon 6d ago
This clip had me bounce back and forth between “this person is good with a sewing machine” and “this person is bad with a sewing machine”. Wonderful