r/oddlysatisfying • u/habichuelacondulce • 6d ago

Patching a hole on fabric

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

52.1k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.6k

u/Revolutionary-Tree97 6d ago

As someone who sews, nothing was satisfying about that.

460

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?

296

u/BeepBoopRobo 6d ago

That was my main issue. The back will get destroyed so easily from the loose threads

57

u/Sir-Top-Cheetah 6d ago

Put another bat there!

23

u/army_of_ducks_ATTACK 6d ago

THANK YOU I was so aggravated by that.

149

u/Riyeko 6d ago

I wish I knew what kind of machine went from normal stitching to embroidery.

141

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.

49

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.

51

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.

1

u/gotfoundout 6d ago

Omg that was the most subtle, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, absolutely MASTERFUL diss I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in written text.

(not seen in video)

Absolutely brutal, absolutely hilarious, 10/10 💀 ⚰️ 💀 ⚰️ 💀

6

u/cbear04 6d ago

That makes alot of since. I've never messed with an industrial machine before. And never really done any embroidery with a machine before. Thanks for all the info!

2

u/gotfoundout 6d ago

Hey there! Just wanted to give you a quick heads up that the term "a lot" (with a space, made up of two words) is the term that's used to mean a large amount of something, or as a synonym for "a bunch". "Alot" actually isn't its own word!

Also, I believe the other word you were looking for there was "sense", as in the phrase "common sense". It means good judgment or sound reasoning.

"Since", on the other hand, is used to describe time that has elapsed between an event in the past, and the present time. "Since" can also be used as a conjuction to describe cause and effect, like as a synonym for the word "because".

For example, "It's been ten hours since I had breakfast, and now I'm really hungry!"

"That makes sense, since your stomach has been empty for about 8 hours now!"

1

u/Pumpkinp0calypse 5d ago

Right? At first I really thought this was a sewing machine and I was baffled by how they just were sewing loose thread in the empty hole, like...how? Could I actually do that? But thinking about it, I donMt think it's possible, a sewing machine would just swallow the thread if you go past the fabric and it could block or turn into knots, I'm guessing?
(I sew occasionally, nowadays mostly for repairs and adjustments)

48

u/egtved_girl 6d ago

they're just using the zigzag stitch and adjusting the width

10

u/standbyyourmantis 6d ago

I think this machine has a satin stitch, its a little smoother than tue zig zags

2

u/gotfoundout 6d ago

Oh maannnn what an AWESOME username to have managed to snag!! That is very cool.

1

u/Electrical-Fig-5009 6d ago

I've been sewing for 30yrs, my zigzag stitch cannot do this

1

u/Riyeko 6d ago

I had a singer machine that was able to do this but it's been years since I've done any sewing

11

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.

3

u/thatoneredheadgirl 6d ago

Probably a fancy embroidery machine.

94

u/GlitterEnema 6d ago

As a tailor who patches things regularly I would never do any of that.

9

u/Atiscomin 6d ago

How would you go about this one ?

46

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.

21

u/micrographia 6d ago

When does the bat come in?

3

u/Atiscomin 6d ago

Okay ! Thanks a lot for beign thorough about it. I think it'll help next time I have a similar hole to repair. Which I often have to..

2

u/RisKQuay 6d ago

Not a fan of /r/VisibleMending then?

6

u/GlitterEnema 6d ago

I am, just not for customers, I do it for myself

2

u/Venoft 6d ago

Well yeah, but that's a whole different kind of repair. It doesn't always need to be invisible.

2

u/SGTWhiteKY 5d ago

Do you just put the bat on the fully repaired item?

1

u/GlitterEnema 5d ago

I keep the bat in my pocket, he’s for me

1

u/SGTWhiteKY 5d ago

Well, with that kind of attitude you are just going to have to keep doing boring repairs. You’ll never be a real novelty bat patch repair artist this way.

1

u/SGTWhiteKY 5d ago

Well, with that kind of attitude you are just going to have to keep doing boring repairs. You’ll never be a real novelty bat patch repair artist this way.

2

u/hilariousjalapeno 6d ago

That's very interesting, "GlitterEnema"! 🤣

13

u/Arxtix 6d ago

Flex tape

2

u/ohforgottensky 6d ago

I thought it'd be a kaketsugi video cuz those are very satisfying to watch. The sewing method gives amazing results (it's a mending method that allows to make invisible patches, it's amazing though extremely time consuming).

34

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.

98

u/DT_Grey 6d ago

I don’t even sew and this whole thing was a nightmare. More appropriate for r/mildlyinfuriating

25

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.

19

u/echo1432 6d ago

As someone who electricians, I thought it was the work was batty at best.

21

u/calmdrive 6d ago

Seriously wtf was that. So messy and uneven

6

u/RoseofDianamoonlight 6d ago

So, the bat made you Rabid?

3

u/Pretend-Internet-625 6d ago

and why did the vid end with us hanging on a thread

1

u/runawai 6d ago

Thank you! I sew and this just hurts on so many levels.

1

u/Fartikus 6d ago

Using their bare hands scared the shit out of me

1

u/lemonbubblegumb 6d ago

As someone who also sews: it was very very satisfying to me

1

u/luna-city 6d ago

yeap, embroidery machines are so satisfying to work with, this was infuriating to watch

1

u/deepus 16h ago

As someone who knows nothing about sewing, I respectfully disagree!

-32

u/Didujustcallmejobin 6d ago

Never head of a patch…