Quite often, masters have difficulty with stamping in the product, the edges of the tissue are shifted and fall under the slider, the teeth do not match or the look is inactive. Sometimes craftsmen and remove this universal fastener at all. Beautiful and neatly sewn lightning in the finished product looks great. We offer a simple and easy solution to the most frequent problems when stitching lightning into any product, be it skirt, trousers, a duvet cover or bag. Having tried only once this simple method of zipper in the zipper you no longer want to return to other types of fasteners.
How to easily enter zip
First of all, you will need a paw for stamping lightning. They are already the usual foot and have a recess for the needle, both on the left and right. And it will help make a line very close to the zipper tooth. Depending on the product, the zerching method may differ slightly, just catching from this master class the basic idea. With this method, the type of lightning will be neat and beautiful.
For example, we have two parts of the product that we want to combine lightning
Treat edges where you want to insert zipper, overclocking, if there is no overclock, then the edges of the fabric can be processed in other ways, read more in the article: Methods for processing tissue sections without overlock.
Then we wish both edges together with long stitches, the front side to each other.
Put the fabric with the involving side up and start the seam
In the next step, we determine the location of the zipper on the seam. It can be the topmost edge or a centimeter below, for further tissue bending. Put the lightning with the front side of the seam, the teeth should be smoothly along the seam line. Fix the position of zipper with scotch tape or portno pins. The upper part of the zipper, where the dog is not fixing, but about it a little later ...
Turn over the fabric on the front side and stick the port of the pore in the place where the lightning ends. This will be a kind of label of the end of the zipper, so that when the preache does not flow to the metal parts of the zipper or its teeth.
Start sewing a zipper with Niza and move up. The sewing machine foot should be on the right side of the seam. We make the first fixture stitch "back-back" and start sewing. The foot is located next to the zipper teeth, the line must go to the tooth.
Send the zipper to the fabric until it remains about 5 cm. Lower the needle into the cloth, lift the foot and lift the fabric
Estate the zipper and move it the slider so that he is behind the needle. Therefore, we did not fix the top of the zipper. Otherwise, the slider would prevent the needle to make even seam.
Lower the paw and continue to lay a flat line, do not forget to make the fixture stitch at the end.
How to easily enter zip
Make a line on the other side of the zipper
Lightning wishite! It remains only to resort the central seam and remove the scotch.
Lightning view with inside
Unbutton and zipper, make sure it works. That's all! With this method of stitching lightning edge of the fabric, they definitely do not fall under the slider, the slider will move smoothly and freely, and the view will be neat and beautiful. This is how it is possible to quickly and easily enter the zipper into any product.
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