How to Prepare the Body of a Zipper Backpack

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we would prepare the body of our zipper backpack. For the body you need two pieces of twelve inch by twenty-six inch fabric. You want to place the two pieces of fabric wrong side together so the right sides are facing out. Now I'm going to zigzag stitch all the way around the edge of the fabric. If you want you can quilt to whole fabric like we have been quilting but for this I'm not going to quilt it. I'm just going to based together or zigzag together the edges of the fabric. Now I'm putting some pins in the corner just to hold the fabric together so it will not shift as I zigzag the edges. So the pins are just to hold in place and again you have the right sides out and we are just going to set our machine at a zigzag with the highest zigzag four and a stitch length of two and a half. Just a zigzag to attach the two pieces of fabric together. If you have a over locked machine it is a nice thing to over lock the edges of the fabric and then you will not have any fraying. The zigzag will help to stop the fraying but the over lock is even nicer. (sewing) Just end and back up to knot the threads and remove the pins that where holding the two pieces of fabric together. "