YouTube video by Tim Skyrme showing George Koleff demonstrate inside sewing two ways: with needles and with a length of fuse wire bent over into a loop
Notes
- very old method
- cut a stitching groove in the bottom of the insole
- holds shoe in lap with a foot strap
- shows proper hammering technique to hit squarely
- pierce holes with a pegging awl angled slightly inward so as not to miss the insole
- pegging awl will pierce the last within
- can stitch as normal in the parts of the shoe where you can still feed the needle from the inside of the shoe
- for the toe, two methods
- work with a wet sole so you can seat stitches without great force
With Needles
- small, number 6 harness needle heated red hot to remove temper so it can be bent
- slightly bend the needle
- push the outside needle through
- pull the outside needle through from the inside, but leave a loop of thread slack on the outside, wide enough to fit your hand
- pierce the inside thread needle through the outside thread, pull about 10mm past, bend back toward the outside needle, and twist together
- pull the loop to feed the inside needle through the hole
- remove the inside needle from the outside thread
- tighten the stitch
With a Wire Loop
- especially if the toe is very pointed or raised
- no needles
- loop
- 20 amp fuse wire
- bend in half
- twist a few times to create a loop on the end
- work in reverse
- push the loop of the wire through,
- put the inside thread through the loop
- pull the loop out the bottom partway
- use a awl to pierce the inside thread
- feed in the outside thread
- pull the inside thread to draw the outside thread through the whole
- separate the threads
- pull stitch tight