Sewing the Top Lining on a Jewelry Bag

Video Transcript

"We've got a lot of stuff done so far. We've gotten this lining sewn to the body, we our eight inch opening, we've got the drawstring lining opening. What we're going to do next is we need to actually flip it out and have it lay flat. If I flip this out and I try to iron it, I know it's going to be kind of difficult, so I have a trick to do. If you feel like it, you can iron it out. I just really don't like messing with the circle, trying to make it lay stray and all that jazz, it's just a lot of work and I find this lot easier to do. What I plan to do is do a top stitch right along this side of this lining, right along the edge. But, I'm also going to make sure that this seem, where the two meet, lay on the lining side. I have to hold it just like this with my fingers, when I flip it over, I'm going to sew right there on the top. What I'm going to do, right here where they meet, I'm going to push it over and I'm going to start right there on top at the beginning I'm going to start, maybe, a half an inch in. Here we go. Just lay it right there on top. I was showing you how to do this, or how I flipped it out, I think it's easier if you flip this back to the wrong sides outwards. That means the wrong sides are showing. That just makes it real easy for you to get inside the hole and you don't have to worry about this part of the fabric getting caught underneath the foot and getting sewn to it. I like to keep my thumbs under there, I got them both under here and I'm constantly making sure that this is pushed over to the lining side. That that seem is underneath the lining. Let's just sew and while you're doing that, you pull them apart. You pull the black to one side, you pull the stripe to one side and I can feel with my fingers under here that the seem is laying where I want it to lay, underneath the lining. Here we go, and as I sew, I'm slightly pulling them apart. If you feel like it was trying to roll or trying to get away from you, you can just stop, look at it, if you have to pick up the foot, reevaluate it, and put it back down. Now, I've been sewing for a long time and I still take my time doing this because I don't want to have to pull any stitches out. Here we go. Trust me; this is way easier than having to use the iron to iron down a circle. That is just a nightmare if you've ever tried it. Especially with fabric as slinky as this. Let me make sure that everything is looking right. So this is the way it?s supposed to look if you're sewing it right. The seam is against the lining. Okay. When we get to the edge over here, where the opening is, do it the same way as when you began. Stop about half an inch from where the seams actually begin, where the lining and the body are connected. Here we go. Here we go, right there, what you want to do is real close and back tack right there. Now that we have that sewn I'm going to show you how to turn it out, and now we can press it and you don't have to worry about it giving you a hard problem laying flat."