How to use the zipper foot

The Zipper Foot can be used for inserting zippers as well as making and inserting pipe or cording. The zipper Pes allows the needle to stitch close to a raised border such every bit the teeth of a zipper or the thickness of cording. The Attachment Pes is truly an essential accessory for fashion sewing and habitation decor projects.

On most sewing motorcar models, the Zipper Human foot tin can be attached to the presser foot holder on either the right side or left side. Depending on the type of zipper insertion, both sides may be used. For more information on the Zipper Human foot for your machine model, refer to your sewing machine manual.

Basting the Seamline

Zippers

There are many zipper applications: lapped zipper, fly forepart zipper, and centered zipper. Follow forth to come across how a basic centered zipper is installed.

Starting time drip the seam line of the attachment opening, with fabrics right sides together and and so stitch the remainder of the seam line with regular directly stitch. Be sure to backstitch at the beginning and end of this this regular run up.

Press the seam open up.
Pressing the seam open
Identify the attachment, centered on the seamline, under basted seam. Now baste the zipper to the seam allowances using either basting gum or auto stitches.

Tip: Basting glue tin can be used to concur the attachment tape in identify while sewing. Information technology is a not bad fourth dimension saver!

Zipper Tape

Set your machine for a regular straight sew sewing. Adhere the attachment foot to the machine on the left side of the foot. Follow your sewing auto manual for your recommended Zipper Human foot settings.
Depending on the model, you may need to motion the needle position so that the needle sews on the left side of the human foot.

Stitching in the Zipper
With the right side of the fabric facing up, top stitch the zipper opening a scant one/8″ from the zipper teeth starting on the upper right manus side. Sew down to the lesser of the zipper opening, pivot and sew together across the zipper bottom (making certain not to stitch into the zipper finish), the pivot once again and stitch upwards towards the meridian of the attachment opening. Clip and remove the basting threads. Your basic attachment insertion is complete.

Pipe / CordingInserting Piping with the Singer Zipper Foot

You tin can use the Zipper Foot to make a covered pipage for a variety of projects. Shown here is a pillow embrace with self fabric pipe.

Yous will find piping used in mode sewing, such as collars or inserted in seams, and in many accessories such as handbags.

Home decor uses for pipe include pillow covers, inserted in the seams of slipcovers or even in valences and defunction. Piping tin can lend a tailored finished look to many projects.
Image the possibilities!

Sewing InspirationMeasuring the Piping

To create pipage, first measure around the cording and add seam allowances to that measurement.

Tip: Use a flexible tape measure to measure for cording material strips. Wrap the tape measure around the cording to determine the size of the cord.Cutting enough bias strips of the amount of cording y'all need plus 1″ for each seam required to join the bias strips together.

Sew together the bias strips terminate to cease to create one continuous length of bias. Press the seams open up.

Wrap the incorrect side of the bias around the cording.Piping Inserted

Ready your Vocalizer Sewing Auto for straight stitching. Adhere the zipper foot to the left side of the human foot and be sure the needle is set to sew on the left side of the foot. Sew together the seam allowances of the textile together close to the cording.

Tip: Before cutting the bias strips from your piping fabric, embellish the fabric with decorative motorcar stitches.To insert piping into a seam, such every bit this pillow cover seam, pin the pipage to the right side of the main material slice with the raw edges of the pipage aligned with the raw, outer edges of the master fabric slice. At the corners, clip the seam allowances of the pipe. This volition let the piping to relax and then that it volition fit smoothly around the corners of the pillow without puckering.

Sew the piping to the primary fabric piece, overlapping the ends and allowing the ends of the piping to autumn outside the stitching line.

Note: If sewing piping into a pillow be sure to either exit an opening in a seam, or unzip the zipper to leave an opening for turning right side out.Place the other main fabric slice right sides together with the main textile piece/piping piece and sew the seam close to the piping.

Turn right side out and printing.

Your basic piping insertion is consummate. This technique tin be used on a broad multifariousness of projects.

The possibilities are countless!