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Hi! I’m Candi Cane-Canncel on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this clip I’m going
to show you how to insert a zipper into your make-up bag. I personally love to put in zippers
I have a really full proof easy way to do it and it just makes it fun, I know a lot
of people are put off by attaching zippers because they think it’s really difficult,
but it really isn’t. The first thing you want to do is line up your right sides together,
once you have that you want to go ahead and pin along the top and take your zipper and you just want to
measure where the zipper begins and where it ends. And what I like to do is just add
an extra pin just to remind myself where the zipper is going to end and where it starts.
Now the fist thing we’re going to do with stitching is we’re just going to do a simple
base stitch and that’s going to hold the two pieces of fabrics together so we can put
in a zipper a lot easier. And what I do is just put a 4 ½ inch stitch length, change
it to straight stitch and just simply go to one side to the other and because it’s a
basing stitch you don’t have to back-tack which means just going back and forth just
to secure your stitching. I just based about ½ of an inch in, so once that’s done, take
out your pins, open up your piece and just stick your zipper in from the back side and
when you put in the zipper you’re going to make sure that the little zipper pull is
actually facing upward. So just put it up, put in a couple pins to secure and then turn
it over to the right side and what you want to do is make sure that the teeth of the zipper
if perfectly up against the seam. So from the right side you’re actually going to
pin the zipper to your piece…take out the pins from the back and just secure them onto
the front. And you’re just going to go all the way down and pin it, turning on the back
side every so, every inch or so just to make sure that your teeth are lined up and just
keep going all the way to the bottom. Now this zipper is a little bit longer than our
make-up bag, but that’s not to worry, what we’re just going to do is once we stitch
this zipper in we’re going to go in and make it extra little stitch just to secure
it so that zipper pull won’t go any further than that.