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Okay, so now that we have this piping made, I have maybe about two, three yards of it.
I'm going to show you a couple of installation tricks, for whatever project you might want
to use it on. The first one I'm going to do is just a straight seam, and no curves, just
straight. So this might be something that you could put maybe at the bottom of a curtain
or, let's see, at the bottom of a dress, or something like that. So if you can imagine
that this would be your curtain, and you want the piping at the bottom, and you want--you
want it to look like this at the bottom, and it's going to be--it'll look really pretty
just sitting at the bottom. So, okay, let's do that. I'm going to turn it back this way.
The piping goes at the bottom, and it's so easy to do, especially with your piping foot.
This is basically just something to hide the seams, so if you can imagine it's going--the
piping's going to be sandwiched in between here, which is going to look really, really
nice. So I'm just going to go in, act like I'm sewing the piping again but in between
two pieces of fabric, like I'm sandwiching it. So we backstitch--always backstitch your
projects. I'm just going to make sure that it's straight and even, and since it's piping,
if you want to look, it's stretchy--don't pull it unless you're going around a curve.
If you're going straight, you just let it lay the way it wants to lay. You just follow
along with it. You go right to the edge and really avoid trying to--pulling it like this,
because then you'll just have a big wrinkly mess. There we go. I'm just going to take
this out and see what it looks like. I'm going to go ahead and cut this off. Push this aside.
And that's what it looks like. There we go, that just looks really, really nice. And then,
if you wanted to, you could do a little top-stitching right here on top and that would look really
nice. Let me just pop this in. That's just to make it stay where you want it to stay.
Okay, and top-stitching it like this is good for a lot of things, like dresses, and like
home decor, but not so much for round--round things like pillows and stuff like that. So
I'm going to cut that off, and cut this off. And if this were your curtain, you would just
go ahead and press it open just like this, and that would be the bottom of your curtains.
It's very easy to install piping on a straightaway.