How to Sew on Piping
Stacy GrissomIt’s always fun to create a new accessory – especially a new bag! Once you have finished sewing a new bag, piping cord is a great way to make the bag look finished. While many patterns suggest folding the cording over itself, Stacy Grissom shares a tip on how to sew on piping, and how to connect your cording in a much cleaner way.
Cording is a great way to make a bag look nice and finished. But it's hard to actually finish the cording. A lot of patterns tell you to just fold it over itself. And then you end up with something like this. And, well it's on the bottom and no one will ever really see it, but I would like it to look nicer.
So I've got a way for you to do that. So instead of laying one piece over the other, like that and sewing across. Which can be really hard on your machine because that's a lot to sew through. Instead of doing that, you can, make sure you have enough on each side, a couple inches, at least. And then on the longer one, you're gonna seam rip the cording Where it's already sewn.
And you can do this when you're pinning it or you can sew all the way around and then stop sewing about where those pins are and then do this part. Either way works fine. Just want to seam rip. So you can set the other one inside. So now, I'm going to clip this one about that much a little bit more Then, I'm gonna lay this one inside of that one.
And I'm gonna cut my cording. Right where that one starts so that they line up. And fold that down over. Try to get those raw edges lined up. And then for this part, you just want to finger press, a half inch or quarter inch fold.
Tuck that guy in there. Now you don't want to cut your cording too short, 'cause then you'll have a hole. Then you just pin it in place. I like to pin, over pin a little bit at the point where I do that. And then, you just sew right across that line like you did the rest of the way around.
And your cording is nice and smooth.
Thank you for video. I learned a similar way many years ago when I was making pillows, I cut the cords and sewed the end fabrics together rather than overlap. Gives it a really clean finish and no gaps.
Would love to know the details for the bag you show the piping completed on, its cute!
Your positng lays bare the truth