 Hi, you guys welcome back to the sew along for McCall's 8 to 5 5 Today's day 3. So we are moving right along if you've been keeping up at this point You have the shell of your garment which you have Fitted and make any final adjustments that you were gonna make to that and then today We are gonna be installing the zipper, but other than that. We're also gonna attach the lining to the shell So we will have a mostly finished garment with just raw edges on our sleeves. So without further ado Rambling on let's get to sewing The rest of our top All right, so with the zipper basted to the seam allowance We can come in and essentially baste this down Through all the layers you just want when you first baste it into the seam allowances Just feel with your fingers and make sure the zipper teeth are centered on the seam line That's what really you're making making sure of that way whenever you seam rip this seam open and expose the zipper teeth They're as close to the center of that those two folds as possible. So I'm feeling pretty good about mine I'm gonna put this uh the zipper foot the the Over the zipper teeth at this point and then I'm gonna move The needle over so that it's about a quarter of an inch away from this Seamline and again, I'm still basting But it's just sort of locked in place already and obviously you're keeping the front of the garment out up out from underneath the Presser foot All right, and I'm just uh going as far as I can between the zipper pull and the stop You can see I'm still about I don't know three eighths inch shy, but that's going to be okay We're going to be able to get it stitched down all the way top to bottom After we get the lining in So same thing from the other side Okay, and at this point you can take your seam ripper and cut open That seam line So now we can unzip our garment completely and it opens up Like a vest would and the idea is that when you have um It open or closed for that matter that you cannot see the zipper teeth That's how you know, you've centered everything perfectly. So come through here remove all these little like stray threads And then meet me back at the cutting table where we're going to attach our lining to our main fabric. All right, so we have our Self fabric with the zipper Installed and we have our lining with the center back completely open I have the neckline facing me right side up so the right side of our self fabric goes face down Right, and then you've got all of these notches So we're going to match those up pin all around the neckline And if you have opted to not make the lining at this point This is when you are stitching your Interfaced facing you're stitching this to the neckline now. Okay, you're going to come over here to the center back And this is i'm going a little bit rogue, right? I'm not completely following the instructions um because I don't want to do any hand sewing Um So I think this is going to work But the idea is you come down here to where the zipper Stop is on the top you fold that toward the raw edges Then Lay line everything up. This is facing out. We are going to pin this into place And we are going to stitch from the him up Through here all around our neckline and back down the other side And then we should be able to turn the garment Right side out through our arm side. All right, because I already have my zipper foot on I'm going to start with the zipper and on the Wrong side or on the main fabric side. You can see it's folded over ever so slightly That is what is creating that little flap to cover our zipper Teeth So when we go to stitch the lining to it We want to stitch even a little bit further from that than we normally would So we can put this in And instead of your zipper foot going over the zipper teeth Just place the edge of your foot along the edge of the teeth and that should secure it without compromising the uh The work on the on the other side of the zipper Okay, we are taking our seam allowances that are on the inside of our garment and turning those to the lining side Seam allowances turned toward the lining and then on the right side Of the garment you can see this seam allowances are over here not over here. They're over here So we're going to be stitching very very close to the stitching line And that's going to hold the seam allowances toward the lining Which is essentially going to pull the lining toward the inside of the garment and that's what keeps it from peeking out All right, let me show you what this looks like once we're done So our seam allowances are all now still are all now um stitched to the lining of the garment And on the inside of our garment is where our stitching line is This is our under stitching right here and then on the right side of our garment pretty side out There is no stitching, but the lining is being ever so slightly pulled toward the inside of the garment So you'll never see the lining from the outside. Isn't that super cool? Okay, so we need to trim our seam allowances I like to do this with pinking shears because they already have the little notches in them And that is what it's going to help it lay super flat through all of this um, so do that and then Turn the garment right sides together again, and then we'll start on our hem Okay, just real quick. I went ahead and pressed my neckline You can see how crisp and beautiful all of that looks so happy and then here is my zipper from the right side and From the wrong side without a single hand stitch in sight This is what that looks like so also really nice and pretty then turn the um Facing to the inside and match up your bra edges Of your hem and then pin at all of the seam All of the vertical seams just pin those down and then stitch at your 5 eighths inch Seam allowance all the way around the hem stopping and starting at each little junction here And then also you can move your zipper pull like halfway up So completely pulling the garment out from the machine each and every time you come around to one of those small dots Okay, so here is our hem after we have sewn all of the scallops And again, we're i'm going to take pinking shears and i'm just going to Trim as close to this stitching as I possibly can Because that's what's going to give you the nice really crisp Curves all along your hem. All right. So we've got all of that trimmed And now you can reach in through your arm sign Um grab the zipper Pull it through And then straighten everything out and you should have A cutie little top with no sleeves So a sleeveless little top with raw edges at this point Take your point turner or a chopstick or pencil whatever you've got and go in through each of the arm size and Just kind of straighten all this out You're going to want to go to your iron and you're going to want to press this Like a mad person Um, but the idea is this let me get you another one so you can see them how they come together She's cute. She is stinking cute So go press this like I said like crazy um All the way around the hem and we are done for today Like I said before if you have any questions At all you want my advice on something you got stuck somewhere. You need to show me something Become a hem sider the link is in the description box Become a hem sider and then you can join me tonight 5 30 p.m. Eastern on facebook I have a room set aside for the hem siters Um and for uh in my exclusive facebook group So that we can video chat and I can help you as you need We're feeling pretty good right about now. You're like, wow, this is pretty much done And you're right it is all we have left to do is the sleeve. We'll be tackling that tomorrow Um, and I'm going to finish up these talks with you so See you tomorrow guys