Making a Vintage Kitchen Apron: Stitch Up the Sides

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Candi Cane-Canncel on behalf of expertvillage.com. For this clip I’m going to show you how to stitch up the sides of your apron. Now because we’re using a fairly shear fabric we don’t want to just go ahead and serge the sides or do a zigzag. What we want to do is take the raw edge and actually enclose it into the seam that we’re going to create and you do that by folding your fabric about a quarter of an inch and then folding it over another quarter of an inch. And once you’ve done that you want to press and you want to press this fairly well cause it’ll just make it a lot easier to sew and I’m also using a little bit of a steam setting so to make this even more a permanent crease. And once you have it a little bit pressed what I like to do is take pins and pin it down that way you can just continue pressing and you don’t have to worry about it popping up or anything like that. So just do that all the way up the sides of your apron…stopping every couple of inches to place a pin in here. So now we’re going to stitch the sides of our apron and I’m going to be using a fairly loose stitch about a 3 1/2. A really easy way to stitch the sides or just stitch a hem or any sort of thing is when you pin if you pin straight up and down then you can actually run it underneath your machine and your machine will just glide on over as opposed if you pin going along the length and every time you get to a pin you have to take it out which doesn’t make it much fun. And there you have it a nice stitched side and it even looks nice from the inside. For more info on this project go to my website at candiland.com."