Threading the Second Drawstring in a Jewelry Bag

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Sewing projects made easy! Learn tips for threading drawstrings inside bags in this free video clip about how to sew a jewelry bag.

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Threading the Second Drawstring in a Jewelry Bag
So we've got one side of the drawstring on one side of the purse and what we need to do now is go to the other drawstring opening that we made and start working from this end. Here's my drawstring. I'm going to fold my little tab right in half and that's just to anchor the safety pin on there. If you're yanking it you don't want it to be ripped out or anything like that. So if you fold it, it makes it sturdier. Okay, get your safety pin and just put it right on top of this one and just start pushing it through. And it might be kind of more difficult because it already has a drawstring in it and it's bunched up but basically do the same thing as you did with the first one. You just run the body of the bag that has the casing on to the safety pin. And you pull. And you might not be able to pull that much. Don't try to if it doesn't want to. Just kind of feel it and see where it wants to go but run the body with the casing on to the safety pin and pull. See, I can see it pulling a little bit. But it's also pulling the other drawstring. And you'll get a feel for it. It's not that difficult. It's just a little bit different that running the first initial drawstring because there's a ruffle already. Okay. And just push it on here. I'm coming up to this one and what we want to do is make sure that safety pin, it comes out underneath because we want this drawstring to lay underneath this one. It can be next to it but we definitely don't want it to be on top of it like this. Here we go. And that's kind of a minor detail but you'll see what I'm talking about when you pull it. We're almost done here. I've still got a bunch of drawstring over here. Let me pull it a little bit. There we go. Okay, so I'm about to come out to the side over here. There we go. And there it is. And we don't have to worry about putting our finger in there because we already have one in there and it's kind of leading the way. Okay so there we go. And there's this side of the casing. I'm just going to kind of pull it where they're even. Here we go. I want this drawstring to be on the opposite side of this one. Oh. That looks good. That's really cute. And then we can try opening it up again. There we go. So we don't have very much further to go. I think what we need to do is attach the handle of the purse. Then make our little drawstring stops and then we'll be done with this. Not too much longer.

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