How To Sew In A Jolly, Open-Ended Zip In A Wrap Robe - hand Sewn - No Sewing Machine Needed, dress 615
Buy an open ended zip the right colour to match or co-ordinate or contrast with your towelling wrap or dress. find the fixed point at the top or bottom of the area you need to join with the zip. Mark the top and bottom on both sides with safety pins or pins. Undo the zip. Cut thread as long as the zip, with some over. If that is too unweildy or the cotton in lumpy and likely to snag, use a shorter length. If the zip is short, to avoid re-threading and loose ends, cut thread longer than the zip. Sew down one side. Make sure the teeth are in the middle to meet the other half of the zip. Check the colour and size of stitches on both sides. I try to hide the stitches on the top/outside. Hide by using matching colour thread. Make the smallest stitches on the top or visible side. Oversew the start and end. You ight oversew at intervals. That way if you catch the thread or break it,you don't lose the entire line of thread in a long ladder. However, you don't want the stitching so ti...