Sometimes the process of stitching lightning in the dress causes certain difficulties in Shvent, which do not have sufficient experience. Or maybe you are not seamstress, but just want to replace broken zipper on your favorite dress? This article will be useful in both cases both professionals and fans-lovers in the sewing business. After reading this detailed instruction, all questions will disappear by themselves, and you can easily handle the task.
Required materials and equipment
Before you directly proceed to repair dresses, prepare everything you need so that later not to search for all this in the fussy and not distracted:
- sewing machine (and to it - special foot for countersunk lightning);
- lightning;
- portnovsky chalk or soap (dry, with sharp edge);
- threads;
- needles;
- scissors.
Choosing a zipper on the dress
There are two options:
- in middle seam on the back;
- in side seam.
Most often sew in the middle seam on the back. Lightning placed here will not deform the dress, create irregularities. But it may arise difficulties due to the inconvenience of use: to fasten such a zipper, you all have to seek help. And what if there is no one near anyone?
In this case, you can enter the zipper in the side seam on the dress. And here you already keep in mind that the minimum error may cause the sides of the dresses to be pinching, especially if the dress is made of lightweight, thin fabric.
Preparatory process
To sew povenaya lightning, necessary process open the seam. The edges seam overcame or proceed oblique shelkova baika, to they not disengaged v further at work. Small (or soap per his insequences) on the internal side note lines topping secret lightning. Leave punches width 1,5 cm, turn away their, little putting, but not irony.
Work with lightning
We reveal the zipper, we put it on the allowance (on the front part). We place the cloves of the zipper perfectly smoothly - so that they coincide with the middle line on the dress. Tapes are at the level of the top edge of the neck of the dress. Wide stitches, wash the zipper. And start doing it from above both on the left and right side.
We connect the sewing machine
Go to final stage, where to you practically nothing make, after all v work turn on automatic processes:
- prepare a sewing machine to use;
- replace the standard paw on the paw to protect the secret lightning;
- because of her cloves of the novel of the index finger (this is done in order to be seen how the seam lies, and the seam line itself);
- make a line on the left side of the zipper from top to bottom, and the right side - start to do from the bottom, without interrupting the line.
Congratulations! You have just seen the zipper in the dress!
Little tricks
Each seamstress has its little secrets that help achieve the best result. Here are some of them:
- some are sampled by strips of fine adhesive, and then stripped with lightning bends so that the lightning keeps more reliable, had a more neat view;
- the end of the zipper must be 2.5-3 cm below the mark made by you, which defines the designated area for lightning;
- the line at the passage of lightning should be located at a distance of 1 mm from the teeth.
Now you can not run in the atelier if you need to put a zipper in the dress. You can easily do it yourself if you know how to read and have elementary work skills with a sewing machine.
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