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Summary: Trimming pockets and cutting the back in sewing projects. Learn how to sew outfits for kids in this free crafting video.

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Shelly Cordsen Shelly Cordsen has been sewing and crafting for years. She offers classes around the Southwest demonstrating many different advanced techniques. Cordsen is co... read more

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How to Trim Pockets in Sewing

Hi Shelly Cordsen here with Expert Village and we're continuing our pocket organizer. Ok now we are going to get our pockets ready to put on here and whats fun about pockets is you can ,there’s different style pockets on different jeans, you can find pockets with pre-stitching, there's some were you can leave the little Levi tag on it like this is on there. We have light pockets, we have dark pockets. Just its fine just even to find pockets you can get your colored jeans, your denims; put a lot of variety in them. So I have a pocket here I’m going to just take my scissors and cut, I just do a rough cut, cut it out and of course we never throw anything away. If you wanted you could even cut this little tag out right here and use it for an accessory somewhere on your project if you'd like. So the first thing you’re going to do is your going to trim your pocket down because we're going to glue this on. You all can see that it really helps to have sharp scissors, you could use a rotary cutter but scissors are nicer. Now we also need to take this back pocket out right here so we're just going to slide our scissors in here and trim all this excess off. Otherwise it would make our pocket heavy and it really wouldn’t attach very well. So we're going to trim that off and there we go. Now at this point if you wanted to sew your appliqués or accessories on this is at the point that you would sew them onto your pockets before you glued them on.

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