{"id":27320,"date":"2016-09-09T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27320"},"modified":"2016-09-08T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:03:43","slug":"heavy-duty-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/heavy-duty-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Duty Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was all packed the night before my cross-country trip, having just *barely* managed to zip the suitcase closed&#8230;when I noticed the fabric was separating from the zipper in places. Horrors! Fortunately, I was still at home and could grab my heavy-duty upholstery thread and needle, and quickly made a sturdy repair, which has lasted for many months since.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I always carry an upholstery needle and a length of heavy-duty thread with me in a small needle case when I travel&#8230;.&#8217;cause you never know! <\/p>\n<p>Heavy-duty thread is good to keep around in any case\u2014you can use it to make repairs on upholstery, shoes, leather-goods, etc., when regular sewing thread would be inadequate. Dental floss will do in a pinch, but it&#8217;s not nearly as strong. Note that for some repairs, you may also want to use a leather thimble (or another grippy material, not just metal), since with heavy fabric (or leather), a wider needle, and thicker thread, the needle may be difficult to pull through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repairs tears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27322,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27320\/revisions\/27322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}