Snipping Loose Strings on an Applique

Video Transcript

"O.k. Once you have all of them on, you want to make sure that you've gotten every piece filled in. And we're going to go ahead and snip the strings off of the front. And I like to use my seam ripper because it's real nice for getting close. If you don't have a seam ripper, you surely can use your scissors. You want to get, as close to it, as you can. Because those loose threads, really don't look very nice. This is kind of, like the sweeping after you get done doing a hard job. This is the clean up. And then, once you snip that, if you see any excess pieces where you didn't quite get stitched in, all the way. You want to kind of, peel them up. So the adhesive isn't holding up to the material. And very, very, very carefully snip off that little bit of excess. And you want to be careful, not to snip it in front of or behind. I'm going to take the pins out. Now if you know, it's going to do a whole lot of washing. You're going to want to put a little bit closer stitch. And if it's not going to be washed just a lot, you don't have to worry about that, as much. It's going to look like this."