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Hi, I'm Karen, for Expert Village. Now we'll sew our left side of our skirt, we'll sew
the invisible zipper on the left side, the left side of the zipper. And we're going to
place it on the machine and line it up with the left, line the zipper teeth, up with the
left side groove. Okay? So we're left, left, left, all the way. Okay, the left side groove,
with the left side of the zipper tape, and the left side of the skirt, and we line it
up just like that. Now, you want to have a regular stitch length and we're going to take
a few stitches back and forth just to knot that a little bit and hold so that your threads
won't come out, and to also check that, indeed, your needle is lined up perfectly with the
teeth. You can see that the way that the groove guides the teeth, the needle comes down exactly
beside the teeth, as close as you can possibly get to the teeth. And you just go ahead and
sew on, letting the foot guide the zipper, and removing your pins as you go down. And
just go slowly, the needle should never hit the teeth of the zipper, because of the guide.
I'm using a red thread just for instructional purposes. You, of course, would use a thread
that matches the zipper so you wouldn't see the threads. And just continue down nice and
slow and you can see that it lines the zipper up just perfectly. And go as close as you
can. When you get down to the zipper pull, and you can't go any further, just back that
up a little to knot it, and remove it from your machine. So, we haven't sewn all the
way down past the pull, we just sew as close to the pull as we possibly can. And that's
our first side.