Zipper with only one half of the band or "from 1 do 2"
When sewing a messenger bag, I finally reached the point where the zipper should be sewn to the upper engagement edge. At first, I thought that after the previous sometimes difficult sections it would be easy, because it was done often enough ...
A) But wrong thought, because at the latest in the second sentence it was said in the instructions: "Divide the zipper (it is only a RV-band half needed) ...? That totally confused me, because I had never worked like this and I did not could imagine, how one could then close a bag with only one half of the band - the zipper had two = both Halves? Grab? and put them together to make a finished zipper. So I took an endless zipper from my bag, pulled off the zipper and separated the two halves of the band from each other. Since I still had no visual idea of what to do now, I again took my computer or the Internet to help, and see there: Under the term?All-round Zipper? I found it! First of all here is the reference to the fact that very many purses are closed with such a kind of zipper!
For my following remarks, I assume that it is known how to empty a zipper to a quasi? Endless zipper threads, so you can open and close the zipper again. For those who want to get to know this before reading this tip now, please under the keywords? Thread in zipper? Googling, and is already shown in many videos, how (cost!) Can push the zipper itself on an endless zipper and thus at any time the length of his zipper to use to the centimeter can set exactly!
So, then it can with the "miracle zipper"? start
Here are the individual detailed steps, how to work the so-called? I have to imagine a zipper (I will go into the sewing below on a pocket edge)
- Cut the zipper coarsely into the chosen spiral width and color (ie cut it off from the endless strip at the desired length - tip: add 3 cm). If you have to buy them before you start the project anyway, then be sure to buy twice the number of zippers: The RV is shared, so you only use one half. The second half, but the remaining half of the band at a later time can also be used as a solo zipper for another project - but you need a second size and color matching = identical zipper!
- Put the zipper in front of you. If the seller has already threaded a zipper or already one of the pre-project sits on the spiral, pull it off and completely separate the band halves. Set one of the two halves aside and continue working only with the other.
- Since we definitely need a zipper to close the zipper, thread it on now. Now - as with any endless zipper - threaded the second half of the band on the opposite side of the zipper? be, d. H. be pushed into the zipper so that it can then join the two halves of the band together.
- But because we have only one band half available, instead of the second half of the band, the lower end of the same RV band is picked up and led upwards in the direction of the zipper. Here it should then be pushed into the zipper - just as if we had a second = different volume in our hands.
- So that you can push this second end of the tape better into the zipper, please the band and spiral before at an angle of about 45 degrees with a sharp pair of scissors (this time it must be the good scissors, so that the woven tape is not torn by a bad pair of scissors and so can not fray ...) cut off at an angle so that it ends in a kind of lace.
- Now hold the first end of the tape together with the threaded zipper and carefully thread the (lower!) End of the tape into the zipper. Above the zipper bring both ends together and here hold tight.
- Now carefully pull the zipper down: The spirals are put together and form a completely closed zipper, as you know it! If this does not work out right away, repeat step (5) again - here patience is required - possibly the second end of the tape again = clean beveled (this is exactly where the zipper length is lost, which you just better take into account).
The zipper can now be closed arbitrarily far and of course reopened in the opposite direction - and all with only a single one Band (instead of two)!
Granted, the completely closed end of a encircling Zipper does not look so? Fine? It would look as if you had used two tapes, so you would have incorporated a very ordinary zipper in the usual way, but it all depends on which project you want to do this way: labor and costs are minimized! Also the fact can be disregarded, that with two halves of the band they have to be sewn so exactly on two different edges, that the teeth of the spiral do not meet against each other in the middle ... - also this duty of care? does not apply to a circulating RV.
Of course, he looks in any case sportier and possibly you can from the top a little stuck on the visible closed spiral end? - that's why we probably would not sew it on a clutch (small evening bag, which comes without handles and straps, so it is carried in the hand).
- B) How will such a circulating? RV sewn to a pocket edge ...?
- C) For which projects is a circumferential zipper suitable?
Both questions will be answered if you look under the keywords? Googles, because you come across there immediately examples including instructions z. For example, for purses or pencil cases that are excellent around, so complete with such a zipper, which is also easy to incorporate!
At least for me, I gained experience from this project
