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Hi! I’m Candi Cane-Canncel on behalf of expertvillage.com. So in our last segment
we learned how to press open a seam, now we’re going to learn how to actually finish the
seam edges to give your fabric a nice look from the inside. So with your pressed open
seam you’re just going to be taking one side of the fabric and simply folding it under,
pressing as you go. Once you have it pressed you turn around your fabric and do the same
thing to the other side. Once you have your seam pressed in, in order to secure it you
can just go ahead and put in a couple pins just to keep it, because we’re going to
be actually stitching this seam to make it look pretty from the inside. And remember
to pin just the little seam allowance you don’t want to pin to your actual piece of
fabric, turn it around to make sure it’s pressed really well and then do the same thing.
So you have your seam pressed and pinned in place and what we’re going to be doing is
you go all the way to the edge, put down the presser foot and you’re going to be stitching
up the edge just to secure the seam allowance underneath…and then you’re going to do
that same stitch for the other side. Take your pins out and there you have it a seam
that looks just as good from the inside as from the outside. For more info on this topic
please go to my website at candiland.com.