Sewing a Drawstring Opening for Jewelry Bags

Video Transcript

"Okay, so I'm ready to show you how to sew this rectangle to make that opening, and you know, I think I'm going to put an extra pin here. I just want to make sure that this doesn't move around. And on my sewing machine, I'm going to make a really, really small stitch. And what that means is if you--it's a lot of stitches per inch. When you have long stitches it's less stitches per inch, but I want to make a lot of stitches per inch. So that just means that the stitches are real close together, and real tight and the reason is because I don't want this to fray, because I'm going to cut this out. But let's go ahead and start right at the corner where you drew it. And I'm going to go over it several times. But what I want to do, I want to make sure I make it perfect--perfect corners. And if you have extra thread going over the square, it's going to be an issue. And I'll show you what it looks like after I sew this, and you can see what I'm talking about. I'm just going to go ahead and sew it all the way around it. Okay, and since I got this sewn already, I'm going to go over it again. I like to go over these a couple of times. And you want your needle and your thread to meet right exactly at this corner, and so let's turn this. I'll probably just go around it twice. And the good thing about this stitch is, when you set your stitch to a certain length, it's the same amount of stitches to get to the end as it was the first time around. Okay, so maybe if it took you ten stitches to get to the end, the second time around it will take you ten stitches again. Okay, and there I'm at the end. I'm going to do a little back-tacking right there. When I pull this out, I'll show you what mine looks like. And so if yours isn't exactly like mine, it's okay. Mine's actually not even a perfect rectangle, but it doesn't matter, because when I flip it out--when I cut that open and flip it out, it will look like a perfect rectangle. But see how it's all inside? If I had a stitch that came way over here on the end, that would be a problem, and I'll show you why when I cut this and flip it out. But for now, let's go ahead and sew this one. This one won't take but a second, because we've already done it before. And I'm still going to put an extra pin in there. This fabric moves around a lot, and I don't want it to move too much. Okay. Like I said, it doesn't have to be perfect. I prefer my top stitches to be more exact than things like this, because it's going to be on the inside and no one's going to see it. Okay, right to the edge. Okay, so I'm going to go around again, and try to stay right on top and corner to corner, just like my other one. Okay. There, and just two more seams. There you go. I outlined it perfectly. Going to do a little backstitch. Okay, and this one actually, I think, turned out even better than the last one. Let's see, there we go. And what I'm going to show you how to do in the next clip is how to clip these open and flip it out."