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Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now you want to iron open your seam allowance. It's
already sort of open, but if you want a nice, neat zipper installation, it's a good idea
to press that flat. Okay, and then we'll be ready to place our zipper and sew it in. Okay
now we have our garment with the seam allowance pressed open, that's our zipper opening, the
seam allowance pressed open. And we're going to place the zipper and pin it in place. So
what you want to do is grab one side of the seam allowance and fold the garment in half
like this so that the seam allowance is hanging over by itself and the rest of the garment
is off to the side. Okay, and we're going to place the zipper so that the zipper pull
is even with the top of the garment, the top of the waistband, and that it's facing down
on the center of the seam like this. Now you want to pin the zipper tape to the seam allowance,
making sure that the zipper pull is centered on the zipper seam, and you can take the excess
zipper and just zipper tape there and pin that in place. And now, you take a look (move
that pin out of the way), you take a look at the teeth and it should line up on the
seam line like that. You just sort of roll it down and hold it in place and put a pin
in. I'm pinning the zipper tape to the seam allowance. Now I'll lift it up again and roll
it down so that the zipper teeth are laying right on the center of that seam and continue down placing the zipper teeth
on the center of the seam and then pinning the zipper tape to the seam allowance. And go down as far as you can to pin it. Next
we'll be basting the zipper in place where we have pinned it.