Opening The Strap Seam for Sewing A Messenger Bag

Video Transcript

"So before we turn this strap out to the right side of the fabric we need to press this seam that we just made, open. And there's different ways you can do it. You can put it like this and try to wrestle it down and do it like that but I like to just lay it on it's side just the way we sewed it and basically just open one side up like that. And it just makes it so much easier to press. Then you just press right along the side of it and just open that seam up. There we go. There. We want to do that all the way to the top. And the reason why we do this is when we flip this strap out to the right side we don't want a bulky seam sitting right in the middle. We want it to lay nice and flat. There we go, just right up the side. And if this takes you a little bit longer than it takes me that's okay. Sometimes it's not very fun wrestling with the iron. There we go. Then we lay this one open. There we go. And now that we have this seam pressed out what we're going to do next is turn it to the right side and if you've never done this before, you know, you might not know how to do this. But I have a little trick with a safety pin about how to turn it to the right side. And I'll show you how to do that in the next clip. So, let's get on to that next clip and we'll get this strap finished."