I’ve been looking into patchwork and quilting as a way to reuse scraps of fabric left over from sewing. Yay making things! View or add comments Learning about patchwork and sewing Dec 29, 2015| sewing It means that I can buy zipper tape by the yard and never have to worry about having the wrong length, and that I can make large containers without being constrained by the pre-cut lengths available in the fabric stores. It’s a small thing, but it’s nice to know that I can deal with zipper pulls and zipper tape. I love how easy it is to find all sorts of practical tutorials on the Internet. This made stitching over both sides of the zipper much neater than it would have been if one of the sides were open, like the way pre-cut zippers are.Ī Zipper pulls and zipper tape - index card #sewing Hooray!īonus: Because I had left the bottom part of the zipper closed, by the time I had moved the zipper pull to the middle of the segment I had stitched into the pouch, the zipper pull was basically in between two closed parts of the zipper. The new zipper pull zipped the zipper closed behind it. Youtube to the rescue! I followed this tutorial:Īfter a little bit of wiggling, I got the zipper pull onto the coils.
Then I realized I had no idea how to get the zipper pulls back on. One side of the zipper had escaped the zipper pull on the segment I was working with, so I opened the zipper and removed the last two zipper pulls that were on it. Today I was sewing a large pouch that needed a 21″ zipper along one end. It’s so convenient being able to just cut the length of the zipper I need instead of sifting through a stash of pre-cut zippers. I’ve used the zippers on a number of small pouches already.
I picked up a few yards of zipper tape months ago as an experiment. They also sell zippers by the yard, and will thread on as many pulls as you ask for. The fabric warehouse near our house has an assortment of zippers, but it can be tricky digging through the bins to find a zipper of the appropriate type, length, and colour.