overstuffing my foot box.

my current sleeping bag has some cold spots in the foot box Id like to fix. I ordered 4oz of 750fill down to overstuff or should I say properly stuff, my footbox. I may have ordered to much, I didnt realize how much 4oz's of down would be.

Well I have a seam ripper and plan to rip the seams of the foot box and the next two baffles to add more down. I also plan to do this on the inside of the sleeping bag since I'll have to hand sew it back and it obviously will not look as nice. Anyhow I don't know much about sewing and was wondering if I should do a particular stitch to strengthen the area to keep the fabric from ripping or just ripping open again. I was just going to do a simple loop stitch around the ends of the fabric that I seam ripped.

Thanks.

Cesar,

You will want to use a backstitch on the seam. This website has an illustration of the different seams.

http://www.perestroika.ca/html2/vest/handstitching.php

Or this site for a couple of different Seam Stitches

http://www.helloknitty.com/pdfs/Handstitches.pdf

Thanks Ill practice before I rip the bag open. I'm hoping I have the time to get this done by thanksgiving weekend.

thanks again

So finally got around to over stuffing the foot baffle and the last two regular baffles. The foot baffle was probably the hardest since I ripped the seam that both baffles are connected to so was more to sew to get it shut. Hope I sewed every shut correctly. It doesn't look pretty but its on the inside so not a big deal.