How to Press the Pattern for Luggage Tags

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Shelly Cordon with expertvillage.com. We are continuing making our luggage tag. We have our piece that's 3 1/2 x 12. We're going to turn it to the wrong side and we're going to iron our interfacing onto it and then get ready for sewing. Okay. When you iron the interfacing to this, we have cut this about 1/2 inch smaller because it takes less bulk out of the seam so make sure you see this shiny side face down on the wrong side of your fabric. You're going to iron that. You'll follow the instructions on the pellon, but you basically hold it for a few seconds, lift, and just work your way down. You do not slide the iron when you iron on pellon. We have our interfacing sewed on. Now we're going to take it right sides together, fold it in half and just put a stabilizing pin in there. Now we're going to start right here; not in the center. We're going to leave an opening, so come in about an inch on each side. We're going to start sewing 1/4 inch here, come this way, all the way down, backstitch and stop. Come up here, sew, down, backstitch and stop. We're are going to sew 1/4 inch seams, so make sure your machine is setup for 1/4 inch. I happen to have a 1/4 inch foot. I'm going to put that down. The first few stitches, I'm going to take about 3 stitches, back stitch, and then come back down. Stop, keep your needle in, turn, and continue 1/4 inch down. When you get to the end, you want a do a few blocking backstitches. Now we're going to do the other side the same way. Okay, I've got my 1/4 inch seam sewed all the way around, left an opening. Now we're going to take our scissors and we're going to cut all these corners real sharp. Makes it easier for turning. So we have all 4 corners trimmed. Now we're going to turn it inside out. You might have to struggle a little bit because your interfacing is very stiff. Just be persistent. That's why we backstitched. So here comes our little frog. I tool I love to doing my turning in and out is the purple thing they call. It's just the same thing as if you wanted to use a pencil with an eraser on the ends. Stick that up in there, or those wooden skewers you can buy to make your kabobs. Just we real careful that you don't go poking a hole through the bottom. This just kind of works your corners out; gets you nice clean points. Then now we're going to just press it, tuck in our opening and then we're going to make our handle next."