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The reinforced straight stitch is stitch number three. It looks like there's two rows of stitching
side by side but they're actually going to be three stitches on top of each other. I'm
going to quick sew it out on the bias, or diagonal edge of this denim fabric, let you
see what it's actually going to do. It's going to sit two stitched forward and one back.
It's a great way to make stitching look like it's been top stitched with heavier thread
without having to switch to a top stitch needle, how to search out heavier thread.
Look how thick that stitch looks, all because there's three stitch on every single one.
The reason I set it on the diagonal is so you could see that it actually will stretch
and give. It's a great place to sew on the seat of a pair of pants. Down through the
crotch area. It also would be great if this was handles going inside a bag and you wanted
to reinforce where the handles were going to have all the weight pulling down on those.
Then, any time you wanted to really define something. You could do that for the hem of
the pants or top stitching. You could use that and you can move needle positions. It's
great. You even have a zigzag version of this. It's going to be up here on row number one,
stitch number sixteen. So, one six. By the way, this looks awesome in variegated thread.
It kind of looks like rickrack. It's going to do two stitches forward, one stitch back.
Can definitely look decorative. Give you a look, see what this is all about. A nice,
heavy, heavy stitch sewn with just a little bit of a utility stitch.