How to Sew Seams on Garment Bag

Video Transcript

"This is Vicki Walker for Expert Village. We have assembled our garment bag, we reinforced the top edges, we put the ribbon trim on the bottom decorated with pockets and a letter on the front and it is time now to sew the side seams. I want to be sure that the side seams do not ravel so I'm going to first sew with wrong size together. Then we would turn the entire garment bag over and reinforce by using another seam that would take in all of those raw edges. So I would start at the top shoulder part and then go down the side seams and do that other side just the same way. We have taken in about a half inch seam all along the side. I'm sewing along the edge from the shoulders seam down to the side, turn the corner here. I'm going to round the corner since the edge of the hanger is a little bit rounded rather then pointed. Sew down the side seam all of these rough edges would be taking in, in the next step so we would not have the raw edges showing. Continuing in sewing the sides seams I have now after sewing the side seam all the way from the top from bottom on each side. I have pressed the seams so it would be easier when I flip the bag over to sew the seam the other way to take in all of the raw edges. I would start at the bottom. Now that the seam has been pressed it would be a lot easier to lay it flat and also just along over a half a inch along. Take in all the raw edges all the way up to the top. So that is how I would be taking in the seams all would go all the way up to the top on this side and then on the other side. That would complete the side seams and the raveled edges would not show. "