Finishing Piping Curved Lines

Video Transcript

"Okay, so I'm about to finish showing you how to install piping into a curved area. And this is the piping that we handmade ourselves, and what I'm doing, I'm just showing you how you would install it, say if you were making a round pillow or maybe piping on a round butterfly collar, or something like that. So I have both pieces sewn on with the piping pinched in the middle, as you can see. And I have this excess fabric, and I'm going to go ahead and trim all this off. So get your scissors and cut about a half an inch away from the seam, all the way around. It doesn't have to be exact, because it's going to be inside, just don't get it too close where it would fray. Let me get rid of that. Okay, and now that we have this, we could just flip it out, but if we do, it's going to be real bunchy. So there's a trick to making it lay flat, and that is to go in and make snips all the way around. And you need really sharp scissors to the point to do this. And if you can see mine, it's very close, maybe an eighth of an inch away from the seam, and you want to make them approximately an inch away from each other. And if you have a lot of fabric in here, it might be kind of difficult to cut. I think it would be okay if you went in and did maybe like this and did one layer, and then the second layer, and then the third layer. There you go. And I think I'll try doing two layers, and that's a little bit easier with these scissors. And these are brand new scissors, and even these are a little bit hard to go through those layers--oh, it did that time. And here's another one. I guess if I can push the scissors closed it helps. There you go. Okay, so now that we have these snips, I'm going to flip this out, and we can see what the piping looks like in between this fabric. Oh, that just looks really good, and see how nice and even that lies? And if you turn your fabric over, and you can see any thread, anywhere, in the cracks around here, you'll need to go back in, and remember when I was showing you when you sew it, pull it away and get as deep into the--next to this as possible? You can go in--I could get even closer if I wanted to, by just pulling the fabric slightly as I'm sewing it. I don't have to, because I already did that, and I'm pretty used to working with my cording foot, or piping foot. And so, there we go. That's how you install piping on a curve."