abufletcher, I'm about to embark on this area myself soon. I have a SE5a that has stitching on both sides of the fuse. I read about a technique that I plan to use. The technique is pretty simple: the top and sides of the fuse (in my case) have the edge that contains the eyelets doubled with a strip of fabric. You would take something like a 1/2 inch strip and capture the edge of the top or side giving you a 1/4 inch on the inner and outer side giving. This amounts to 3 layers of fabric along the edge. You locate all your eyelet positions and with a tapered soldering tip burn through the 3 layers making a hole for the eyelets. The eyelets are then placed into the holes and peened on the back side to secure them in place. In practice a small phillips head screw driver works well on the back side of the eyelets to snug them on to the fabric. The stitching is then added througth the eyelets attaching both the top and side togather. After sides are joined to the top fabric they are attached to the lower edge of the fuse. Then they are trimmed along the fuse bottom edge giving you a neat finish. Hope this helps. BobH.