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Okay, so now that we've decided that we're going to use this silver safety pin, and we
made sure that it fit through the hole for the drawstring, I'm going to show you how
to attach the safety pin to the drawstring without tearing it, or putting more holes
in it, or damaging it. This one is the original one that came with the jacket, and, like I
said before, if you don't have the drawstring you can go to the store and buy a shoestring
and it works really nice because it has those little, the pieces on the end that are wrapped
and they won't ever come unfrayed. And those are pretty simple to do, you can do the same
thing with those that I'm going to show you how to do with this. But if you are using
the original one and you have knots that are in there that won't come out and they look
kind of bad, they look kind of rough, you can just go and cut them off which is what
I'm going to do to mine. I'm just going to snip it off and leave the longest possible,
and if you're a little bit short on the drawstring, you can just go buy the shoestring instead,
you don't have to use the same exact one. But I like to get all the knots off to make
sure that it looks nice when I run it through. So what we want to do first is open up the
safety pin, it's going to be open, and I'm going to go to the end over here, I'm going
to fold it in half just like this, and then I'm going to make a knot, just a, kind of
like just a loop. Here we go, just like that. And now what I'm going to do, I'm going to
get a safety pin, I'm going to run it through this loop, so I don't want the safety pin,
the pin actually to penetrate the fabric or the drawstring like that because when we're
pulling it through it might damage it or pull the threads out. So now that I have it on
here like this, I'm going to show you in the next clip how to start running it through
the casing for the drawstring.