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Tutorial: Use masking tape to sew in a zipper
Agy from Green Issues uses masking tape to help sew in a zipper. The tape holds the zipper in place while she sews it down. She shares a tutorial showing how she does it. She shows the technique with hand sewing, but she assures that you can do this when sewing a zipper on a sewing machine, too.
Click below for her tutorial:
Fix It Friday – Are You Scared of the Zipper? by Green Issues
[photo from Green Issues]
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I ain’t skeert of no zippers!!!! But always like to read another approach to the application.
Thanks! I love that there was also a video about fixing broke zippers!