I recently bought a hoodie sweatshirt and it was drastically reduced from $40 to $7 due to a faulty separating zipper. Now, with the purchase price of a new separating zipper and your free tutorial, I can make my hoodie whole and functional again. Thank you so much!
Love it. But I am trying to replace a carhart hoodie zipper. The thickest material ever!! Any tips? It doesn’t want to go through the machine. It keeps jamming and stopping. I have a nice Juki QV18.
Excellent😸 Been seeing for eons but it NEVER hurts to take a refresher. Turned my granddaughter on to your channel as I think this is a marvelous method of teaching. Than you!
Thank you for your instructions. I was able to replace a zipper on a sweatshirt for one of my students. I would not have been able to do this task without your guidance. Thank you again and God Bless!😃
You never finish edges in the zipper tutorials. How many jackets out there have raw edges and unfinished edges? How many jackets don't have linings? I would like to see a tutorial for a separating zipper on a thicker woven fabric with finished edges. Thanks.
This was a fairly easy and fast way for me to put a zipper in a casual garment. It was the best and quickest explanation video I found on You Tube. Thanks!
I know this is an old video, but I wanted to see what to so with the top/facing of the collar and you didn't show that detail. Other info was great. Thank you for your tutorial.
There are some pretty good videos on shortening a separating zipper out there. Basically you remove the unnecessary teeth with plyers or needle nose plyers, breaking them up to remove them. Then you either attach a new stop, or carefully remove the old one and crimp it in the new location.
I'm running into an issue replacing a separating zipper in a fleece jacket. the fleece stretches. I put it in once - it was awful, tore that out - now kinda stuck. would I follow this the same way or do I need to stabilize the edges?
Obviously I am not professor pincushion but thats a great idea. I had to stabilize the zipper area with interfacing of my pants because the fabric was very thin. After placing the zipper it was fine.😊
You are amazingly skilled and talented! I'm sewing up this sport zipper on a scuba swim top I made, will I need to zig zag stitch because this is a stretch fabric?
It's not going to hurt anything to sew on the zipper using a zig zag stitch instead of a straight stitch but if the zipper tape itself doesn't have any stretch then it's probably not going to make a difference. :)
I love your videos more than any other ones I've seen, you show and give instructions all the way through. A lot of videos these days just point and play music. BORING!!!!
I was sewing a bustier with lining and lapped zipper(separated) at the back, although I finished it by my own but still wondering if I was doing in the right way, been searching online but I couldn't find any proper tutorial, hope you can do one! Many thanks
Eron Wei we do that have a tutorial on a bustier that I made and it also has a lining and separating zipper. It might not be the same as yours but it's on our channel if you want to look. If yours looks good and is functional, I wouldn't stress out about it though :)
i have a question, how do you fold over the edge of the material that the zip is being sewn to? do you do it by hand or is there something like a presser foot that turns it over?
when you sew your seam, the zipper is faced down, but as soon as you flip it out so it's right side up, the seam allowance of the fabric automatically folds on its own. Hope that helps. :)
Barclay's Mommy, Donna the basting stitch is just being used as a guideline for when you do the topstitch on the right side of the garment. Hope that makes more sense.
It makes no sense to me. If you put in a basting stitch, then sew over top of it... It sounds like a headache in the making. How do you remove the basting stitch that is in a contrasting colour?
Professor Pincushion Hi There, I read many of the comments and found that a few of us are getting stuck with the same thing, ‘finishing the band collar’. If you don’t have a tutorial, can you suggest one? I myself have spent ages trying to find an example that makes any sense. I’ve partially added a zip to my garment but can’t finish the top end. We need you Professor Pincushion. Please respond.😩
so it isn't buckled at the beginning but later? hmmmm....is the fabric stretchy? maybe it stretched over time. you can use a stabilizer in the zipper area and that might help
+CharlottesWorld1 for this collar, the collar starts off being twice the finished width size, so half of it is folded to the inside of the vest and then stitched in place
