Color Stitching a Leather Shifter

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How to stitch your leather shifter with a colored thread.

Leather wrapped shifters are held together with a cross-pattern stitching. The thread is looped around the top and the two equal sides criss-cross each other as they work their way down the stitch.

Coloring the stitching can be done with fabric dye if the thread is made of cotton and is a light color. However it must be restitched if the thread is black and could not hold dye.

The video demonstrates how to remove and disassemble your car's shifter, and take out the thread. It illustrates the sewing technique on how to criss-cross the stitch using colored embroidery thread.

Replacing the thread will highlight the stitch as an accent in your car with the clean factory look.

This procedure is for a Toyota Camry, Solara or Lexus ES300 but is similar for other vehicles.