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Summary: Learn how to top stitch around the seat cover with expert sewing tips from a seamstress in this free online upholstery video clip.
Vicki Walker has been sewing professionally for more than 25 years. She has worked as a custom seamstress for home décor merchants in addition to operating her own business, Southern...read more
"Hi, this is Vicki Walker from Expert Village. Now that we have turned our pockets right side out, pressed around the edges for our butterfly seat cover, now we are going to sew the edges down all the way around the outside edge. We would be turning under that 5/8 seam that we pressed under a while ago. We are going to sew this under getting rid of any raw edges that are left around the outside edge of the seat cover. I'm sewing along the pressed edge and I would slow down at the seams to make sure that I don't break a needle. These raw edges are a little tough to keep under there at times. I'm going to reinforce over the seam to make sure that, that does not come loose. When we get to the pocket, I'm going to continue on around sewing the top stitching that would give a nice finish look to the project right here. Since we have pressed it, it should be easy to sew around the edge. I would continue all the way around all section of the butterfly wings and that would complete the top stitching for this part of the project."