Ironing Material for Center Zipper

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now you want to iron open your seam allowance. It's already sort of open, but if you want a nice, neat zipper installation, it's a good idea to press that flat. Okay, and then we'll be ready to place our zipper and sew it in. Okay now we have our garment with the seam allowance pressed open, that's our zipper opening, the seam allowance pressed open. And we're going to place the zipper and pin it in place. So what you want to do is grab one side of the seam allowance and fold the garment in half like this so that the seam allowance is hanging over by itself and the rest of the garment is off to the side. Okay, and we're going to place the zipper so that the zipper pull is even with the top of the garment, the top of the waistband, and that it's facing down on the center of the seam like this. Now you want to pin the zipper tape to the seam allowance, making sure that the zipper pull is centered on the zipper seam, and you can take the excess zipper and just zipper tape there and pin that in place. And now, you take a look (move that pin out of the way), you take a look at the teeth and it should line up on the seam line like that. You just sort of roll it down and hold it in place and put a pin in. I'm pinning the zipper tape to the seam allowance. Now I'll lift it up again and roll it down so that the zipper teeth are laying right on the center of that seam and continue down placing the zipper teeth on the center of the seam and then pinning the zipper tape to the seam allowance. And go down as far as you can to pin it. Next we'll be basting the zipper in place where we have pinned it."