Video Tutorial-Baseball Stitch How to

The ‘Baseball Stitch’ or ‘V’ stitch is one of the most useful stitches, ever.

You can use it to join virtually any kind of fabric: Knitted, crocheted,

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woven, felted, whatever….

I have received a lot of requests from people, asking me to make a video of how the baseball stitch is done. I decided that the time had come to finally make the video tute.

Yesterday, I was alone in the studio, so didn’t have a willing extra pair of hands to hold the camera while I stitched away.

I decided that I needed a stand to hold the camera, so I went looking around the studio to see what I could put together to make a stand.

LOL! This is why it takes me forever to do some blog postings…. before I can do the post, I have to build a rig and make a this, that and ‘t’other….

For the base, I used this neat old black metal thing that I had found in the barn. I think it must have been part of a light. I dunno.

I had a piece of threaded rod, so I dug around until I found nuts and washers that fit it, and secured it to the base. Then, I took an embroidery frame and stuck it on the threaded rod.

Finding one more nut to secure it to the rod was a challenge, as the rod seems to be an odd size. And, then, I clamped on a nifty camera holder that my son loaned me.

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Voila! 3 hours of searching and tinkering and

I had cobbled a rig to hold the little Flip video camera.

I then played around with making a background to shoot the video against…

listing off my links…

and it printed off on 2 pages, sliced in the middle, instead of one… sigh…

fixed that…

and set up everything in a corner of the studio.

Yay!

I started the camera and got half way through the tutorial….

and …. sigh…..

the camera quit.

Dead batteries….

Dealt with that, and started again…… by this time, the day had melted away, so I thought… ONE shot. That’s it. ONE attempt.

So, even though it’s far from perfect, I did make it through without the cat jumping into the middle of it and the dog barking his head off or the phone ringing. whew.

Now that I have a workable system for making solo video tutorials, I’ll be making more of them.

Here we go , for starters: Here is the tutorial on How to do the Baseball or V stitch: I used 2 squares that I had woven on the potholder loom, but you can join any kind of fabric that you have created, in any medium, using the Baseball stitch.

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