Double Needle Blind Stitch Part 1 - Cloth v13

We start with a brief history of hand stitching in the mobile tech trade. Then demonstrate the Double Needle Blind Stitch on a cloth seat. Future videos will show the same stitch on vinyl and leather.
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This information will be educational for anyone in leather repair, vinyl repair, seat repair, car repair, aircraft refurbishing, painting and dyeing, and any mobile tech service.
This is not intended as a DIY channel.
I DO NOT SELL PRODUCTS. A detailed explanation is given for each step. As with all my videos, this illustrates my own personal preference based on decades of experience. Please note that I don't sell products and am not profiting from these videos nor are they sponsored. So if you have questions about the products then please contact your supplier. (Like they’ll know!)

[@EyesWideOpen77]

Amazing! This was the best auto seat repair I've ever seen hand's down. And as impressive as any cosmetic repair I've seen on anything. Period. If that was my car, between getting rid of the eyesore and preventing further tearing, I'd be glad to pay someone $100. to fix it like that. That's pretty good money for 15 mins. of work.

[@cfuzzkennedy]

Very nice. I have been doing these repairs for 20 years without ever being taught. I will adopt this method into my repairs now. It’s never too late to learn a new skill.

[@Emarie120]

My mind is blown!!! I have tried to get rid of that saw-tooth look for years!! This was a gift video from the sew gods! Thank you!

[@molly1117]

Wow that looks GREAT! I was just going to try to do a one needle blind stitch on my truck seat but decided to check to see how a pro would do it. I'm really glad to have found your video. Thanks!

[@thatsweird474]

Wow 👏 that was a great gift to pass along. A really valuable lesson,Thank you for that.

[@Anna-ou9dh]

Most definitely.

[@brandyfuller2455]

Thank you so much for posting this, I can now fix the tear in my car's seat instead of taking it somewhere else!

[@rob18b]

Thanks for the video! After a trip to the fabric store and $7 worth of materials, I followed your guide and my ripped seat is now flawless. Amazing!

[@yardrail3432]

Amazing demo...I watched it three times since I had never heard of a double needle blind stitch. Thankyou more than I can say.

[@bitsofwisdom460]

I had a split seam (about 3 inches) in the cloth driver's seat of my IROC-Z Camaro. It was at the rear where the seat fabric meets the harder carpet type material. I was going to just try to do a normal single needle stitch to try and repair it, but when I started, I could see that it was just going to be ugly. I found this video on a search and I am very glad that I did. It took a few minutes to understand the technique, but in about a half hour, I had sewn the seam with the two needle method and it's totally invisible. I have been sitting on it for several weeks now and the seam is holding up well. Thank you very much for showing this technique, I'll likely use it again.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Yes, and thank you. It really is as close to a sewing machine stitch as you can get by hand.

[@danousd]

This stitch is actually described in my embalming book from mortuary school. No one ever demonstrated it to me. I found your tutorial very helpful. Thank you.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Who could know!

[@tbrinkley112]

Best in car repair I've seen!!

[@stonedroses45]

Yes that was fantastic please do mine

[@SPocok]

i never stitched before but, following your video/guide i managed to repair my seat after an airbag replace saved me about 200$ ,it looks good as new thankyou very much

[@teytzeming]

Wow.... exactly what I needed, will attempt this tomorrow. Many thanks for sharing

[@georgejamison3782]

I have been do the old school stitch for years, going to use this at some of my dealers next week. Thanks for sharing!

[@hoodieninja70]

Thanks for this. I just bought a truck that had a tear similar to this and now it's all stitched up! :)

[@wartowels3645]

This just blew my mind. I learned a new skill - thank you!

[@mode1charlie170]

Amazing result!

[@LG3295]

Excellent work! Thank you so much for making such a comprehensive video!

[@scottwright388]

Thanks for sharing this knowledge. I feel confident that I can do this.

[@markblandford9346]

Amazing!!! I'm going out to attempt this myself!

[@brianbright5025]

Wow! Nice job on the stitching and nice video! Thanks for sharing your expertise!

[@dauman1442]

Thank you for the knowledge. Truly a master upholsterer 🙏🍻

[@lauriezimmer4732]

Thank you! This was very helpful. The end result is impressive.

[@Jeremyhammock1]

Great video, helped my repair my seat in my super duty

[@jiwbink]

You sir,ARE indeed a credit to your profession! EXCELLENT WORK! EXCELLENT VIDEO,VERY COMPREHENSIVE.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Thank you, Sir! You probably wouldn't believe it if I told you how much money these hand sewing techniques have made.

[@spauldingclassics]

@@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247 I'm sure a lot.. I've been passing over these sewing jobs for years. I'm going to do my first one today, using your technique.

[@tinak6040]

Now this was downright amazing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.

[@dankalishus5339]

This is the best! Thank you for this lesson. ❤

[@mpflaherty1]

I love to see a master craftsman at work. Bravo sir!

[@strategicthinker8899]

Wow. This was impressive. Thank you so much.

[@NoodleDukeMoto]

So much for sharing your skills and experience. This skill is incredibly useful

[@Anna-ou9dh]

Thank you for sharing. Great tutorial

[@barbarastruhs3733]

Wow - that was impressive! Excellent tutorial. Thank you for sharing your time and talent.

[@Badhat66]

Great presentation and work 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@PhilC_Adventures]

Wow!! I needed this!! Thanks for sharing the techniques!!

[@carlospolanco4693]

freaking awesome !!! thanks so much sir for sharing

[@nic3mal32009]

Thanks for such an informative and helpful video 👍👍

[@matthewpeterson3329]

This is outstanding. Thanks for the great video.

[@bellsermac3327]

Watched your 2nd video on this re: leather earlier today, and have a similar issue that I need to address myself... this is a gifted method of repair! Many thanks for taking the time to share this skill and with such clear direction...

[@Aerovet78]

Great job! Amazing tip! Thanks!

[@kendaelarmstead9246]

Great work, thanks for this video truly beneficial.

[@secretsquirrelflyfishing]

Excellent! Just fixed my seat perfectly using this. Thanks!

[@robertadams9884]

This worked great for my first time! Thanks!

[@backyardcnc]

Pretty slick! Gotta practise this on my old VW van seats! 👍👍

[@trayharris81]

Just what I needed. Very professional. Thank you.😊

[@Bob-cd5pp]

That is so cool the fishmerns knot at end is amazing, Thank you for sharing .

[@WRX15]

Just the video I needed to see, thanks for making it!

[@paulinmt2185]

Reminds me a little of my double-needle leather stitching. Great technique, great work! Will give it a try. Cheers!

[@gilrey5415]

Great video, thanks

[@markcalston5495]

Amazing how nice that looks

[@user-bb9oh4kk2f]

Thank you so much for this video!! I just tried this method for the first time, and I'm super-excited with the turnout.

[@josinora]

💎👍👌💎❤️ How brilliant and money saving repair is that? Love this a lot and thanks for sharing. 😍😍😍 Blessings from Germany

[@michellereeves5281]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@horsetom10]

Excellent tutorial, I was wondering how to repair a rip in the seat fabric on my car. Many thanks for posting 👏👍

[@Berdihan_outdoors]

this must be one of the best, thank you sir

[@user-no7lt7fw7k]

I do leather work. We do double needle stuff, because it effectively backstitches the thread with each stitch

[@enginkazanci4727]

Woww...THANKS A LOT! U are a natural born teacher, god bless you!

[@MarcosCodas]

Amazing stuff. Thank you!😊

[@mumtazzafar5696]

Great video my friend. God bless you.

[@chrisbaker528]

Neat! Thanks for showing.

[@Ebencrowe]

Great video! Done by very experienced hands! Researching for repairing some boat cushions. This was perfect

[@benjammin5508]

What a fantastic repair you made it look easy I will be using this method

[@JorgeDiaz-xo1nh]

Thank you soo much, got quoted 860 dollars for tear repairs and a trip to the store and 11 dollars later BAM! FIXED!

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

[@Oonnyyxx80]

Wow. Love it

[@kwstakispap]

Thank you for that wonderful presentation!Greetings from Greece! I will try it for sure!!

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Glad you can use it. Thanks for joining in.

[@tech42long35]

What ghreat information, great teacher.. nice.

[@PanamaSticks]

Impressive. High skill. I don't think I could do this without a LOT of practice.

[@midorialexandros]

I have a seam that's come apart almost exactly like this on my 2005 GLI Jetta. Ordered some upholstery thread and the needles, but I needed a technique and was NOT happy with anything else I found. This is EXACTLY how I am going to fix it. BRILLIANT

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Good! Glad the video is useful for you.

[@kidwilson3357]

Wow. looks great

[@Jv-sr8qx]

I m amaze by your work.. thank you

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

My pleasure 😊

[@arlenebuaya6641]

Thank you for sharing your skill and talent, definitely try this on my car in the future. Tried the simplest sewing on car seat of my past car...not the prettiest but it held. Your technique is way much better.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Thanks, Venice. Glad you can use it.

[@ewanburnett3956]

Excellent demonstration very interesting method, I use a single needle slip stitch on upholstery might be trying this out . Thanks for the upload 👍🏻

[@zachc2991]

What an expert! I will fail miserably, however, I am inspired.

[@georgejamison3782]

Used this today on a Honda civic with 2 large slices in the passenger seat. Turned out great, thanks for posting this video!!!

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Great George. Glad it helped.

[@raeyurek8065]

Super technique. I am so impressed

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Super but simple! And thank you.

[@jimisevilla6338]

Tutorial muy bien explicado, lo intentaré hacer en el asiento de mi coche. Saludos desde Sevilla, Spain.

[@user-uo6zw2rv2x]

Very good. May try it.

[@Katita0321]

Sei assolutamente fantastico. Grazie tanto

[@jeffcarpenter6306]

That's Amazing.

[@K.G.2]

Thank you for passing along your knowledge. Here goes!

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pastorfred3460]

Superb!

[@wagnarangerbrown6744]

Thanks for sharing

[@Janicek007]

Brilliant! Thank you Rick. I've been enjoying all your videos for a while now and learning a lot from you. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom not only in the skills but also as a businessman. I can honestly say I learn something in every video you post and am very grateful to you. You are so right that not many like to share their knowledge and skills. So unselfish of you. I also like your music videos, since I play guitar although not as well as you. It is so true that many who are a genius in one area also are good in music. By the way I too go to LDC construction projects to volunteer. Looks like we have a lot in common. I hope to meet you one day and thank you in person. Fellow jdub ;)

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Thanks for the kindness. It's rewarding to know the videos are helping your family. 👍👍

[@mattsimon5336]

Thanks for this

[@shred9395]

I can’t seem to find that thick of thread anywhere online. Thanks for this lesson it actually works!

[@ambergilbert5804]

Thank you, I will even do this to jeans that need this.

[@frundlemud]

Thenks for sharing your craft.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

👍👍

[@BadLuckGarage]

Great video. Wish I would have seen this before I made my seats look like Frankensteins face a few months ago. Lol I’ll know what to do next time. Thanks.

[@rwaz1]

Beautifully!

[@RC-Heli835]

I just did my 1st one! It was the same exact kind of tear. The outer edge of the seat was so tough that needle nose pliers were needed to push through.

[@shailacrooks]

What away to explain everything fantastic wow

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Thank you! I'm trying to make each video as informative and concise. So glad you appreciate that aspect of them.

[@brunaarruda4300]

Perfect 👍🏻

[@kellia3564]

This is a great tutorial and you make it look so easy to learn! I tried practicing on an armchair in our home that has a tear and it was tough going because of the nubby fabric. I had a hard time seeing where to put the needle back through the hole. Question regarding the thread you used. I bought Gutterman upholstery thread which is strong but doesn't look as thick as yours. What type or # thread did you use? How long of a length of thread do you need to work like that? I may have had mine too short. Also as someone that embroiders, I had a tough time using the curved needles. They kept slipping out of my hands. Would this technique work with straight needles? I appreciate your comments and help.

[@joeleahan8063]

Awesome! Thanks

[@luxlineaccommodation5666]

Thank you so much tried it today works well

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Very welcome!

[@luxlineaccommodation5666]

@@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247 once again thank you so much for sharing your immense wealth of knowledge have a blessed day

[@daphnebroens6768]

Tried it on my "new" second hand car which had 2 ugly holes on edges of both seat area and backrest. Worked really well! Patience is needed and I only had 1 rounded needle so was constantly retreading the needle from side to side :). I used a good quality Gutermann topstitch sewing machine thread in the end. First couple of stitches with regular hand sewing thread my thread broke because there was a lot of tension on it. Bottom line: method works like a charm. Do invest in 2 (!) round needles and good thread though.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Glad you found it useful. So many in our industry refuse to believe it when I recommend #18 Nylon hand stitching thread. Because they don't want to invest in a few dollars! But believe me, years ago I experimented with all kinds of needle and thread scenarios to come up with this. We face some very severe gathering of materials under tension. We need to carry what's proven to work in these instances. That's why seeing it demonstrated is so good. Thanks for joining in!

[@Snailmailtrucker]

Now I get it.... You are using 2 needles on 1 length of thread... It just dawned on me ! Good stuff !

[@ladivampkitti]

DUUUDDDEEEEE im so doing this! ty ty ty ty ty

[@ef_danielsan]

brilliant.

[@randelmalavida]

Outstanding!!! I love the story, because back when you were educating people then, as you so graciously have done so today for a guy like me, eager to gain the valuable knowledge from guys like you that have had years of experience and are respected masters magicians as your repairs really vanish. What is so impressive and revelatory about your story, is that you must have been a young man with a lot of knowledge in this field to do seminar's training other intelligent people. For you to have an open mind, to explore another way to make it work and apply it to improve on the techniques being taught by you at that time, for others to improve their skill set and still today share that with the Universe, is the kind of thing, that for at least a moment, gives me something positive in a world that can be by negative deconstructionism and all that is beautifully tragic hurled in our direction. When the good of someone's actions can make all that disappear like "Double Blind Stitch" The humanity felt reminds me of that which in nature, sublime. I'm just starting out doing some repairing and sewing. It took me a long time, but I finally I got an industrial cylindrical arm walking foot sewing machine w/servo motor and I added a 3-6-9" pulley speed reducer, that I just finished putting together in my shed. I made a seat cover for a friend in exchange for some materials. I told the Manager of the Trailer Park I live at about my seat cover project , when he got excited and ask if I could repair his driver seat bottom in his Navigator. I went to look at it the next day, but prior to that I researched how the pros do it and I was shocked at how evolved it was and the mess of wiring just to put a new cover on it. When we met up, I said how I saw how they replaced the cover and how involved it was to remove the seats.... " Seats!!!, We're not removing any seats!!!" He said, " I was thinking Patches or something". I left thinking what the heck did I get myself involved in and I was going to refer him to some pretty good seat cover sites online. I felt kind of sad and helpless, when he said patches, I was thinking how this could be disastrous. When I decided probe into how to repair seat cover rips, as apposed to sewing a new seat cover. In one of your videos you had mentioned the "double blind stitch". I found the video and studied it, watching you do it and that gave me the confidence and inspiration to achieve what I was sure was impossible. From your story back then to today, I thought, wow!!! What a journey that little bit of knowledge has gone through, that you passed onto me as a solution. I am grateful to you and your teachings, that make this world better. I wonder how many things have been forgotten like the civilizations that have come and gone. We are truly fortunate to live at a time in which we can learn nearly anything so quickly. I try to imagine~What if I was born in another period in time, like the day's of the Coliseum and Gladiator's... "Let's go Chavez, your fighting next, with three hungry Lions and a man eating Gorilla riding on a crocodile~ Your Doctor's notes chiseled on toilet papyrus are exhausted- You have one solution~ RUN!!!" Your Awesome!!! Thank You. Sincerely, Randy Chavez

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Wow! You are a deep thinker and good writer! So glad the videos are useful for you. Let's hope they enable you to care for your family well. There's little we can do to change the world around us but we impact one person at a time for the better.

[@jonathancastro9727]

Hello! I'm fan of your video.

[@a.r.t.srealrepairsforrealc8247]

Hello Jonathan! Thanks for joining in.