 What's up you guys? This is your girl, Bipper Tripp, and welcome back to my YouTube channel. For our topic right now is zippers. And I love metallic zippers because I think they're very avant-garde. Every fashion shows that I do, I always make it sure that every garment has a zipper. I know I overuse metallic zippers, but I just like seeing them on a garment. Zippers are mainly used as an opening for pants, for skirts, and for other garments. But for me, I like experimenting with zippers. They add up like a oomph factor to our garment, like for example this one. I like how it looks like, it looks so punk rock, it looks so cool. If you are sewing a bomber jacket, if you are sewing a leather motorcycle jacket, or if you just want to attach zippers into your bags or to other garments, or other projects, you can learn from this tutorial. But anyways, you guys, I am going to teach you how to sew an exposed metallic zipper, a pocket, and of course, I'm going to teach you how to sew them on a seam. So these are the examples that I have. So this is the pocket. This one is the pocket zipper, so I'm going to open it. There you go. Voila! I'm going to put my cell phone in it. There you go. So big. Anyways, the other one is the seam. So I did this last year for a sample. And this one, you can sew it on the seam. So this is the seam, but later I'm going to show you guys in a bigger fabric. And this is it. Let's get on it and let's start this tutorial. Okay, you guys, so these are the materials that you will be needing for this tutorial. So fabrics, I already pre-cut it, but on the tutorial, I will tell you the size and the measurement of everything. Your pencil, pins, don't forget. Fabric, scissors, tape measure, your ruler. Of course, you'll be needing metallic zippers for this tutorial. Or if you don't have metallic zippers, it's okay that you have a plastic zipper. Just make sure that the teeth of the zipper is exposed. Voila! So the first tutorial that I will be teaching you for today is the pocket zipper. Here on my table, you can see that I have three kinds of fabrics. So this is the face or this is the shell of your garment. 13 inches long and 12 inches weep. This is the facing and we will be needing it for attaching it to the self or to the shell of your garment. So this facing has 3 inches length and 10 inches weep. And the last pattern that we have here is for the pocket. So the weep is 10 inches and the length is 948. So the first step that we are going to do is we are going to attach this facing into the shell and paint it in place. We're going to locate the half of the length of the facing. So the length of my facing is 3 inches and I'm going to divide it by 2 so that's 140. It's marked. We're going to mark a horizontal line in the middle. Draft your horizontal line. There you go. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to locate the half of the weave. So that's 10 inches divided by 2. That's 5 inches. I'm just going to mark it here. And then after that on the left side and on the right side we are going to mark in 1 inch. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to measure this point from this point to this point making it sure that it's 8 inches. 8 inches. There you go. Get your ruler. We are going to mark, mark up and draft 2 8 inches. We're going to draft another horizontal line. We are also going to do that at the bottom. So there you go. This is the opening for your zipper. We are going to mark again on this point on the 1 inch here. We are going to mark 4 8's. Just mark it and also on the same side. What we would want to do is we are going to shape it like a triangle all the way there on the edge of the rectangular. There you go. So the next thing that we are going to do after you draft the rectangular line and every line here for the facing. We are going to sew it on the sewing machine. So now we're here on the sewing machine and we are going to sew all of the lines in here except for this diagonal or triangle line here. And of course, we are not going to sew here in the middle here on the middle line because we are going to cut it later. Okay, let's do it. The excess threads. Remove your pins. All that you have finished sewing your facing into your shelves. What you're going to do next is you are going to cut the middle part. You are going to stop here on the edge of the triangle. You are going to cut it diagonally, not hitting the stitch line. There you go. That's good. And do it on the same side as well. There you go. You now have your opening. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to put all of the fabrics on the opposite side and we are going to press it. So this is your opening for ear zipper. So we are going to go back to the work table and I am going to put the zipper. So the opening of the zipper is 8 inches, making it sure that it's 8 inches. We are going to take another measurement just to make it sure it's 8 inches. That's good. So what I do with the zipper before top stitching it is, you know, you can base it. And for me, I am just going to pin it because I'm most comfortable pinning everything. As you guys know. And again, we are going to the sewing area and we are going to sew it. Let's go because I'm going to do a top stitch. I am going to change my footer into a single one. There you go. And I will start here on the top. This is the easiest way to attach your zipper to top stitch them. Hey, let's do it. Remove the excess thread and now you have your zipper attached to your shell or yourself. And by the way, you guys, this is how it should look like in the back. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to attach the pockets. Let's pin it to reinforce everything. And also in here, do this first on the top. I am going to mark. I'm going to use the sewing allowance 6 eighths. Well here on the other side. Next thing that you are going to do is you are going to close the side. So I'll make it sure that I will hit the edge here on the triangle. To make it sure that everything is closed with as well on the other side. And there you go. So this is your pocket with zippers inside. It's beautiful. Guys, this is it. Your pocket with zippers. So you can actually put a lot of things inside. And this is how it looks like on the inside. There you go. It's really neat. You can actually put yourself on the inside. See? You close it. This is how it looks like. There you go. That's my dog. Just playing with my dress form. So our next lesson or our next tutorial will be this seam zipper. So how are we going to attach this zipper into your seam? So it's really easy actually. So what we need to do is we are going to make it sure that this fabric are identical. We should take the measurement of the zipper. So this is five inches. Five, five, eight inches plus the allowance here at the top of the tape. The importance of this part to access here on the tape is we are going to attach something here. So the first thing that we need to do is we are going to measure five, five, eight inches in here. This is where we, on this line, this is where we want to put the zipper. Of course, we have to mark our sewing allowance, which is me, I always use half inch or four eighths. And here I'm going to mark down again five, five, eight inches. So after here on this line, here on the mark of the five, five, eight inches, we would stop and we would mark. For me, I would always like to use six, eight inches. Mark six, eight inches here and mark down from the top here. Five, five, eight inches, which is the size of the zipper and the excess tape. So that's five, five, eight inches. The next thing that we are going to do, we are going to mark our sewing allowance here on the side until here on the five, five, eight line. And we are going to mark, mark out six, eight inches. So this is where we are going to attach the zipper like this. We need to mark up four, eight inches here and make a diagonal line. Yes, we are going to do that technique as well. Okay, let's sew it on the sewing machine. As you guys can see, I have two fabrics here and I only marked all of the markings here on the first fabric. To avoid confusion. Okay, first we are going to sew the sewing allowance, hitting the five, five, eight, but not too much. We are going to sew the sewing allowance, hitting the five, five, eight inches mark. Going to do next is we are going to cut the triangle or the diagonal line, whatever you want to call it, but I call it triangle. Do not cut further until the edge over there. There you go. So the next thing that we are going to do, we're going to press this seam. Going to press it out like that. So this is it. This is how it looks like. This is the press seam and you can see the triangle there. We are going to attach our zipper on the triangle. So the first thing that we are going to do is we're going to open it and we are going to fold the triangle onto the zipper. Let's locate the middle and that is the middle. And after that, we are going to turn this around in here. Get your pin to make it sure that it's still on place. What we're going to do next is we are going to sew everything on the sewing machine. So this is how it looks like on the back. Using your tweezers, we are going to pull the excess fabric to make it sure it's straight and it's in the middle. Okay, let's do it. Sew here after you attach the triangle or the diagonal lines into your zipper. So you are going to sew all of your sewing allowance to the zipper tape. My sewing allowance would be 6-8 inches. There you go. So this is how it should look like. So I only left a few centimeters of zipper tape to expose. I would do the same thing on the other side. So I start at the bottom. There you go. I'll make it sure that I sew this as well. I stop here, zipper pull and continue on. So this is how it looks like on the other side where we finished and we are going to open the pull. We are going to pull it and we are going to start here on the top of the other side with the zipper open. And here on the middle, I'm going to stop there and I'm going to pull up again the zipper pull. There you go. And I'm going to sew all the way down now. I would also prefer to topstitch everything to make it more clean and to make it more beautiful. I like the effect of topstitch. There you go. Now you have finished your exposed zipper. So here you go guys. This is your exposed zipper. So this is it. Open it. Close it. And this is how the back should look like. See that? That's your seam. And this is where we attach the triangle. Our diagonal lines. Your seams. We're here. You're sewing allowances. There you go guys. This is your pocket and this is your exposed zipper on the seam. So that's that. And we're done for this tutorial. Hello guys. Thank you guys again so, so much for watching my tutorials and for supporting my YouTube channel. And yes, we are done with your zipper's tutorial. And I guess we should move on to my next lesson or my next tutorial, which is the skirts and circle skirts. Yeah, I'm excited to tell you guys that I'm going to be teaching a lot on my YouTube channel. We're tripping. It's not just only a travel guide channel. It's also going to be a tutorial for our fashion and of course for fabric making and for sewing. Thank you guys so much. If you like this video, don't forget to hit that like button. And if you are not subscribed yet, please hit that subscribe button and hit that bell button as well. And I'll see you guys on my next tutorial. 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