How to Sew a Waistband Casing - How to sew a basic waistband casing
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Hi! My name is Shawna on behalf of Expert Village. Today I’m going to demonstrate
just a basic waistband casing that you can run elastic through. I pressed this down just
a bit. I’m going to bring it down even more, and I can press it or I can finger press it.
You kind of want it big enough for your elastic to go through and to not get stuck and cause
a fold or anything in it, or a ripple. I’m just going to do a straight stitch down the
side, catching my hem in there. Alright, if this were a pair of pants, and my back hem
was done, I would leave an opening inside here so I could run my elastic through. For
this purpose, we’ll just run it through the side. So I take it and I put it on my
safety pin, because that seems to be the easiest way to run these though when they’re big
like this. Just take it up on that safety pin and then pull the excess fabric from that,
and just keep doing that. This is nice because you can actually…If you’re doing it for
children or for even adults, you’re able to adjust the elastic to what you need before
you cut it. So I’m pulling it through in that back spot, or your seam where it would
meet together you can adjust it to how tight you need it, and that works out really nicely.
