Pinning the Fabric Together for a Tuxedo Pillow

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Terri with Expert Village and today we're making a tuxedo pillow. We've just gotten to the part that we are putting the lining on top of the fashion fabric and now it's time to finally pin those two together. Now, as we said before, you always want to line if you have a really thin, flimsy fabric because it really will add to the body. So, obviously, pinning is super easy. All you do is you pin the lining to that fashion fabric. It's best to start in the two corners, then lay it flat, go to the other two corners, so that there is no buckling. And then you are going to pin midway in between so that everything lies perfectly flat. So, what do we have here. We have about eight to ten pins in the fabric and you're all set to go. Now the next thing you are going to do is you are going to actually sew this together. You put it on the machine and as we said before you need what they call a seam allowance. And, you are going to use the seam allowance because that's where you are going to sew the pillow together at the side seams. As you see here, after we pin it together we sew it all the way around so it's completely attached. Now notice I didn't do it at a 5/8 inch seam. I did about a half an inch. The reason being is you're not going to tear this threading out. You are going to leave this threading in so that it stays stable from the lining and the fabric. When we come back we're going to show you what to do to put those two pieces together and then turning it inside out to have that perfect pillow. So do not leave us yet because you're just moments away from a tuxedo pillow."