How to Sew on Piping
National Sewing Circle EditorsIt’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 bad look nice and finished. But it's hard to actually finish the courting. 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.
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, couple of inches, at least. And then on the longer one, you're going to seam rip Cording.
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 sowing 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. Now, I'm going to clip this one about that much A little bit more. Then.
Gotta lay this one inside of that one. And I'm going to cut my cording. Right where that one starts so that they line up. You fold that down over, try to get those raw edges lined up. And then for this part, you just want to finger press, half inch or quarter inch fold.
Tuck that guy in there. You don't want to cut your cording too short because then you'll have a whole. 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 you're cording is a nice and smooth.
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