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Hi, I’m Andrew on behalf of Expert Village.com and in this next clip I am going to be discussing
how to determine to use the right needle for a particular coat. This is a men’s long
coat with a polyester outer lining and an inner lining of silk and due to the fact that
the polyester layer is actually two layers folded together plus the fact that the button
is overlapping on a silk lining, it is better to use a little bit of a thicker needle. Now
what determines the thickness of a needle is not just the thickness but also the size
of the eyelet between which you thread the thread. Now the larger eyelet is going to
create a larger stitch which will typically require you to have more thread because you
are going to have to puncture a longer hole and thus go back and fill it with more thread
and secure whatever button or eyelets or a fastener you are attaching to the material.
In this case, a medium size eyelet and a medium size needle will do just fine for attaching
a button to the outside and going through both layers of the polyester into the silk
lining and keeping the button fastened quite nicely. So a medium needle works perfectly
for this particular type of material. If the needle were either too big or too small you
would have problems with other than the button not being fastened well enough to stay on
for long periods of time or in the opposite case you might have problems with the material
you are actually sewing it to or coming undone over time.