Zippers- - - - Love 'Em or Leave 'Em
04-11-2020, 12:53 PM
#23
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Originally Posted by Rhonda K
Susie,
Don't you love that feature on your machine? We learned how to do them in a class lecture. The teacher had us add a small piece of stabilizer behind the button hole.
Don't you love that feature on your machine? We learned how to do them in a class lecture. The teacher had us add a small piece of stabilizer behind the button hole.
04-11-2020, 02:33 PM
#24
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Location: Northern Michigan
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I’ve been putting zippers in things for 50 years so they don’t phase me much. Sometimes I even choose a zipper over other recommended closures. Zippers vs. button holes....hmmmm guess I don’t mind buttonholes either- but might choose a zipper first if a choice is viable. 😉
04-12-2020, 11:33 AM
#25
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Location: Long Island
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Originally Posted by Rhonda K
Fess up time! Zippers!
It's not hard if we don't know it's hard, right? Are you ok with patterns that have zippers or are you on the avoid them train?
I had to learn how to insert zippers in high school along with interfacing, darts, and hems. There are so many different techniques to sew them into the projects. They don't bother me.
So zippers - - - love 'em or leave 'em?
It's not hard if we don't know it's hard, right? Are you ok with patterns that have zippers or are you on the avoid them train?
I had to learn how to insert zippers in high school along with interfacing, darts, and hems. There are so many different techniques to sew them into the projects. They don't bother me.
So zippers - - - love 'em or leave 'em?
04-12-2020, 08:04 PM
#26
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
I would rather put a zipper in than make button holes.
04-17-2020, 04:09 PM
#29
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Location: Long Island
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when I put my zippers in cloths, like a back of a dress, I would baste the seam closed, press it open from the wrong side. get out your tape, Scott magic or clear is good. tape your zipper over the opening. so, the seam is facing up, and the zipper is facing down. run the zipper down the seam carefully and tape in place. a 7" should take 3-4 pieces to keep it tape basted. start at the top stitch down. cross over the bottom, and go straight up. then take off tape, and remove basting. you did iT!!
04-25-2020, 08:48 PM
#30
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: wisconsin
Posts: 487
Chasing Hawk and Anniedeb I'm with you guys. I have 3 boys, when they were small I made all their clothes (back when it was still affordable) and I was forever replacing zippers in jeans and jackets. But if a made a shirt with 5 bottonholes you could bet money they were all different-I quit making them
