| step 2 - loading up the sewing machine
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thread up your tan colored thread, (learn how to do this in the sewing machine manual) and you'll want to set your machine on standard straight stitching, and get it worked out so its about 4 stitches per centimeter, as seen below. also you'll need to adjust the stitch tension on the upper and lower sides of the machine so that it stitches properly through a couple layers of the wool. look up in your machine's manual how to do this, and test it out on a little scrap fabric first.
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| when you get to the real sewing, in almost all stitches, you'll want to hit the reverse lever on the machine at the beginning and end of your stitch, so that it'll stitch over itself a little bit, so that the ends of the string will be tight and won't unravel. |
| variation: some originals appear to have used thread which matched the feldgrau wool color all over, as opposed to the tan liner-colored thread i used here, so you could use the greener stuff i listed earlier in all the stitching too. |
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