How to make a Zip

Just follow these simple steps and youll have a zip in no time.

-First of all you need to over lock ywo pieces of material together making sure its in a straight line

-Secondly turn the dial to 4.

-Thirdly you will need to losen the screw with a screw driver and chance the sewing foot to a single foot. Make sure the new foot is tightly screwed on.

-After that you need to sew a straight line 1.5 cm from the edge over the material.

-Then you need to open either sides of the stiching so that its al folded out and place the edge ov the zip exactly in the middle between the over locking and the material.

-Then do do the zip up and do the same to the other side

-iron it all to make sure it stays in shape

-The next step is to change the dail back to stitch 3 and to sew a straight line through the middle of the right hand space between the zip and edge of the material, trying not to e to close to the zip. When you get to the end, pivot your material, do 4 stitich, pivot again and repete the same up the other side of the zip

The final result is to unpick the cetrure of your work, open it up, neaten up slightly and there you have it. A zip

Im not a big fan of pattern cutting as i much prefere drawing a designing, although i did find this alot easier than making a skirt. It will all be worth it though.

Our First Ever Garment

On thursday we made our first ever garment, a skirt!
I really liked the thourght of making somthing but when i got down to buissness i found it alot harder than i expected! I didnt manage to finish my skirt in our first lesson as i was getting very wound up, although with a little extra help from trish i managed to complete it this morning and i am very pleased with the outcome.

Before we began to make our skirts we had to make a skirt block wich we will keep for all the other skirts we make.