How to Make Facing Patch Pockets

Video Transcript

"I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. So in this clip we're actually going to continue working on the facing of our pocket. After you've folded over and pinned, you're going to go ahead and run a seam down just take it to the machine. (sewing) You're just going to go all the way around and then back up (sewing. After you've done that, you're going to turn your facing inside out. A good idea is to clip the corners. It will just make it easier for you to turn, hold on to the corners and you turn it like that. What this is going to do is actually make the stitching is going to make it easier to fold under because then we're going to patch it to the garment that way. So what you can do is just go ahead and press it. You want to kind of flatten it out and then take your iron and press it. (pressing) Then you're just going to pin it down and this is just going to keep the edges really nice and flat. This just holds it in place so you can get the bottom edges too. "