How to Stitch a Costume Neck Opening

Video Transcript

"Hi Shelly Cordsen here with Expert Village and we're working on our toddlers Sheppard's costume. We've got our four grommets in, two from the front and two in the back. Now we're going to fold the towel in half and we're going to mark the neck. Ok and we want the neck to be, we figured for most toddlers' head it was about ten inches. So we're going to put five here in the center ok? And I'm just going to put a pin to mark here at ten. And we'll come back here at the beginning and we just want to cut this opening. And I'm actually just going to come in just a hair and cut just a fraction of this off so that we give enough room for the head the pull through. So we're cutting the fold off. And then we're going to come in and we're going to zigzag that so we can prevent it from shedding, raveling as you can tell it's already starting to shed on us. Now we have the neck opening here and we're going to zigzag around here. And I've started a zigzag stitch here to show you what one looks like. It's just goes back and forth and it kind of keeps things from raveling. And this is what it looks like. Now we're going to bring the towel up here. It doesn't matter which side you start or where you start because it's all going to get buried in the nap of your towel. So now we're just going to come around and zigzag all the way around and then we'll be ready to put the finishing touches on."