How to Use a Sewing Machine to Sew a Zipper

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. In this clip we're actually going to start to stitch our zipper. So the first thing you want to do is change out the foot so you take off the standard zig zag foot. And we're going to place the zipper foot so that we are actually sewing on the right side. Once you have that in, you're going to take your fabric and we're not going to start at the very top, we're going to start in the middle. What we're going to do is stitch the whole area and then as a separate step we're going to come back and finish the top. So you want to take the corner of your zipper foot and line it up to the center seam, pull out your pins. Make sure your stitch line is on a 3 to a 2 and just go ahead and stitch, pulling out the pins as you go with the zippers because you do see the stitching you just want to take your time with them. When you reach the end point, we need to cut across the zipper. Because this isn't metal zipper we actually don't want to stitch just with the machine because it will probably pop the needle off. So I'm just going to manually kind of move my foot across it you can see when it starts getting tuck, you know you are getting it in the zipper teeth. Just manually kind of move it across and with nylon zippers you can just go ahead and go right across. Because this is a very heavy metal tooth, we don't want to do that. So once you cut across, you pick up your foot and you are ready to turn and come up the other side. You take the fabric out and then we're going to go ahead and finish up this in another step."