Supplies for Sewing Piping

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Ok, so now we're ready to go over the list of supplies that we're going to need. First of all, I have a 12 inch ruler, which is a really good metal ruler that I like to work with all the time. I have some chalk. It's tailor's chalk that goes away with heat. I like to use this, too, because it doesn't leave marks on the fabric. Then, I have a piping foot equipped for my machine. And, on your sewing machine, either it came with one and, if it didn't, you can just go out and buy one. I have one. It's actually one-quarter of an inch size, and that goes along with the cord that I have. So it fits right in there, just like this. They have different sizes of feet for different sizes of cord. I'm just going to do the quarter inch today. Put this right here. And some really sharp scissors because we're going to be making some narrow strips, and we need them to be pretty exact. So, we want to make sure our scissors are nice and sharp. And then I chose this fabric. And I thought it would be a good idea to use fabric that had stripes on it, so when the piping is done you can see exactly the effect of how the piping's going to look. As we get into it, you will see what I'm talking about. And, then, just for us to look at, I got a package of piping, so we can go ahead and just look at what the piping looks like. So, I'm going to take it out and show you. What we're going to do--we're going to try to copy--well, we're not going to try. We are going to copy exactly the way this looks. And all it is, is the cord has been sandwiched in between a strip of fabric and just folded over and sewn all the way along the edge. That's not the hard part. The tricky part is getting the piping to curve around your project, like this. You'll look at this pillow, you'll see that the edges are curved around, like this, and that's one of the things that piping is used for, and why it's cut a certain way so it will have a nice curve for whatever project that you need to use it for. So, in the next step, we're going to go ahead and start prepping our fabric and getting ready to cut it to make the piping.

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