hey everyone, this is sarah from sewing parts online dot com, today i'm gonna show you how to
use and install an invisible zipper foot
ok so here is our invisible zipper foot
it has the bar right here for the shank to clamp on to
right here's our opening, make sure your needle is in the center position
before you start sewing or you might break it. on bottom is the important part
as you see this bar right here is going to separate and on both sides
is where you guide the rolled edge of the zipper teeth
through
it's a little confusing but you'll be able to understand a little bit
better once we start sewing
it's just important to know that your zipper will line up with each different
space as you're sewing each different side
so let's go ahead and install it, i'm going to take off the one that I have
and just clamp it on, just like that
so when i'm putting in my invisible zipper I always seem to get backwards on it, so the
best way for me too
figure out how it goes on as i put it together how would be when it's finished
ok so i know this is ideally how it's gonna look
so i think ok well this side is gonna line up with this side
and be sewed
right on the fold, so I'll unzip it
and i know that I need my
zipper to be pinned
on the seam allowance
matching right up with that fold
and match the top up
with the top of the fabric
pin it in, ideally we would hand baste it, but just for demonstrations
we're going to leave it like this and the same thing goes for the other side
you take it
and you pin it on
to the seam allowance right at the fold
and now when we get to our sewing machine
our stitch will be right on the inside of this fold
so it won't show up on the outside of the fabric and when it folds over
it will look just like this
ok so the important part to remember when we're getting ready to sew our invisible
zipper with our invisible zipper foot,
is the two grooves right here, we have a left one and a right one
on this one we want to have this, the bump
of our invisible zipper fit into the groove so just lined up, I know it's kinda hard to see
you want to line it up as best as you can make sure you needles in the center position
and you can start sewing
uh... ideally we would have hand basted this
but for demonstration purposes we'll just use pins. So you can see
the needle is going right on the side of the zipper. it's not knicking
the plastic teeth at all
that's what you want to shoot for
and the
teeth
should be lined up with the folds of your seam allowance
once you get the hang of it
you'll be able to sew these on without even using pins
so as we get closer to the end, we're just going to sew
all the way up until we get to this, don't worry about going past this,
we'll get to the bottom later
and backstitch
and now you are ready to start the other side
so now that were ready to do the other side we're going to be exact same thing
just on the right groove instead of the left, so go ahead and line it up
make sure your needle is still in the center position
backstitch
and sew like you did before
so now that we've sewn
both sides of the zipper together
just pull your zipper up a little bit
so that we can work around the tail of the zipper
so as you can see, i have a little bit of stitches
left, right there
and I need to sew up from the bottom of the seam
up to this stitch, so i'm going to move the tail out of the way
I'm going to sew on the same seam allowance, so that my stitches will line up
backstitch
and get those stitches to line up as best as you can
just like that
and now we can just turn the zipper, and zip it up all the way up and we'll have an
invisible zipper
so this is what it looks like finished you can't see the zipper at all
and I can guarantee you, the easiest way to do it is with the invisible zipper foot
so when you're finishing this garment you'll
probably
turn this under and everything will be
perfect
so that was the invisible zipper foot. to purchase an invisible zipper or the
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