If you want to sew a skirt yourself, then knowledge about how to sew a secret lightning will be useful to you. After all, it is just such a clasp most often used for this clothing. Because the secret lightning is practically not visible, it merges with a seam on the skirt and looks very carefully. Needlewomen sew this item either in the side, or in the rear seam, it all depends on the cutting product. Read about the subtlety of this skill below.
How to sew a secret zipper in a skirt - Tools and materials
So that in the future lightning on the skirt looked perfectly, you will need the following materials, auxiliary tools:
- fabric, threads, scissors;
- overlock to handle the seams;
- secret lightning;
- special foot for indulging lightning on the skirt.
If there is no overlock to your typewriter, then you can and yourself after the end of work to process the edges so that they are not strengthened. But without a special one-sided foot, the zipper will be problematic, especially novice seamns. There is a danger of damage to the cloves of the zipper itself, and the seam will be inaccurate.
Instruction: how to sew a secret zipper in the skirt
- The secret lightning should be chosen so that it and the dog came to suitably in color to the main material. It is sewn after all the necessary seams are stitched on the skirt, more precisely all the details are sewn among themselves, but the product belt will not be sewn yet.
The process comes down to the following actions:
- Overlock process the edges of the skirt. If the material is strongly strengthened, it will interfere with the process.
- Smealance manually two parts of the skirt where zipper will be.
- Scroll thoroughly with iron.
- Spread the skirt with an invalid up. And in the intended place, place the zipper as the same, the invented side up. The cloves should get to the place where we have disappeared the product.
- Special pins fix zippers so that it does not come down on the surface of the fabric.
- Note it to the skirt in the middle of the taper itself.
- Remove the pins now, get rid of the auxiliary storage seam, which joined the skirt details in the zipper area.
- It remains to see the secret seam. To do this, first, remove one seam from the offline, make a line with a special paw, as close as possible to the teeth of the zipper itself. The foot will move the cloves herself, thanks to its structure.
- Then you do the same with the second side of the zipper.
- To arrange the lower part of the zipper, simply from the wrong side, the seams stripe the seams slightly higher than the hilt zipper ends.
- After again, the seams should be smoothed. You can check the lightning operation.
How to sew a secret zipper in the skirt - Tips and recommendations
- If zipper, even after stroking the iron looks strut, then it is possible that you are not adjusted by the machine (pulls the upper, bottom thread) or the pressure of the foot is incorrectly configured.
- It is advisable not to do too large allowances on the seams. Well, when the edge of the seam coincides with the edge of the zipper ribbon, then it is easier to perform work about the sewing.
If you listen to the above councils, then you will get an ideally secret zipper not only in the skirt, but to other products.