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Sewing Tips for Center Zipper

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Summary: Mend your own clothes to save money. Get an introduction to sewing a center zipper with expert sewing tips in this free craft video clip.

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Karen Weisman Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in Hotel and Food Management. Since then, she has helped a national grocery store chain develop a... read more

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Sewing Tips for Center Zipper

Hi, I'm Karen, for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you a center zipper installation, but this time I'll show you on a garment, and I'll also show you if your zipper is faulty, and you want to remove a zipper and replace it with a new one, this is what you'll do. Now to remove the original zipper, the faulty zipper, you need a seam ripper like this, and you're going to just take the seam ripper and get underneath the stitching, the topstitching of the zipper, and just carefully pick out the stitches. Now, if you break a few of the stitches there, and then pull, you can see the stitches here. You want to be very careful that you don't rip your fabric with the seam ripper, so you just want to get underneath the stitches and you're going to remove all the stitches that are holding the zipper in place. So, you just pull after you break some stitches, and you just slip the seam ripper underneath stitches only, and push. This little blade here will cut the stitches and then you can pull it apart again, and if some of the stitches are tight, you just work at them little by little until you remove all the stitches around the zipper. So just inside the garment there will be some stitches also and you want to remove those and you just carefully get underneath and pull them open. And then here also we want to remove some stitches to get the zipper out completely. Here, you can see it's sewn - you can just look and see where it's sewn and remove the stitches until you get the whole zipper out. It takes a little bit of time, but if you have a nice garment that's still very useable and it's only got a broken zipper, you can replace the zipper quite easily.

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