These little setting pins do a nice job of holding. The two length sizes they came in make good sense. But I find it pretty annoying to remove the end pins by pulling the little nobs up. Maybe folks with smaller hands like them better.
I’ll probably go back to just basting.
Tongue tab of the vamp fully under the gusset tongue.
Showing the double topline stitching I mentioned.
I guess I chose to do this as a kind of compensation for letting myself do plain, cut edges on these uppers, rather than binding or piping or folding. In any event, I’m sure it won’t hurt, structurally speaking.
I decided to do a tiny color-contrast with the stay stitches, using some old burgundy braided poly I got in a multipack from a Tandy, many years ago. I was thinking about doing some fancy stitching here, maybe an X pattern, but decided to keep it simple.
I’ve been thinking of doing rivets, too. But I’d like to try something subtler, like jeans rivets, rather than my usually hammered copper or brass-colored rivets.