Sewing Together Sides for Invisible Zipper

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karen, for Expert Village. Now I'll show you how to finish the seam in our garment, and that will finish the invisible zipper installation. First, you want to zip your zipper up, find the zipper pull, and just pull it carefully up. This is what it looks like, you barely see the zipper, you just see a seam, and you zip it up and then put right sides together, so that now you see the seam of the zipper on both sides like this. I did it in red so you can see it. And then you're going to sew your seam all the way down to the bottom of the garment. We're going to change our zipper foot at this point. Take off the invisible zipper foot, and use a regular zipper foot, whatever your machine has. You want to use a regular, whatever zipper foot they've given you. Mine needs to have the needle position changed, so you want to make sure, you always want to make sure that your needle is going to work on whatever foot you have, so I test that out. Now we're going to sew the seam starting here, just a few stitches up from where we sewed the zipper down to, and as close as possible to that seam. Now this is the seam that was sewn on one side of the zipper, and then there's a seam sewn on the other side of the zipper. We want to kind of pull the fabric so that those two seams are together. You almost pinch it in there. I drew a little diagram here to make it clear where you're going to sew. Now this is the seam, your zipper seam right here. This is the edge of the fabric that we have here. And you're going to sew your seam, for the rest of the garment. You're going to start as close as you can, (that's why we're using a zipper foot), sew as close as you can to the seam that's there and then continue down the rest of the garment. So you want to get as close as possible and just a few stitches up from the seam that we sewed the zipper in with."