Round Pillow Anchor Stitch

Video Transcript

"So now we've got all these snips on the inside of the pillow to make it lay nice and neat and we're almost ready to flip it out but I think before I do I want to go over here and make an anchor stitch right along this edge that I'm going to want to turn over when I close the pillow. And by doing that it's going to make, it's going to basically create a curve that I can follow when I'm ready to turn it under and top sew it closed. And I'm going to show you how to do that right now. And so what I'm going to do I'm going to turn my stitch length to the biggest stitches I can get. That means I don't want very many stitches per inch. I only, maybe like five or six stitches per inch. Then I'm also going to loosen up my tension a little bit. And I'll show you why. Make sure you have some extra thread and I'm just going to run a real long, light stitch right here. No back stitching or anything. So. And then when you take it out you loosen it up with your hand wheel. Then grab it between your finger, your forefinger and your thumb and pull. If you let them pull without grabbing them it will go ahead and pull together and you don't want that. You want to be able to control it. So what you want to do is just barely pull it and it gives it like a little, little ruffle. And you're just running the ruffle along the side of the edge. And what this does when we're ready to close this pillow this seam just wants to turn over just like that. It helps you a lot when you're ready to close it. So you're not trying, fighting this fabric to make it curve when it doesn't want to. Now we have that and let's go ahead and flip it out and see how this looks. Okay. Just push all this out. Let's see the piping how it lays real nice and smooth. That looks really good. And now in the next step we're going to go ahead and put the pillow insert in. Then pin it to be closed and we're almost done."