When I decided I’d attempt to teach myself to sew with nothing but a sewing machine, fabric, thread, zippers, a few questionable patterns, and the internet I told mom I was scared of zippers. I had seen a few posts of people saying zippers scared them. Even people who seem to sew a bit had mentioned online that putting zippers in purses scared them, eek. So I figured I’d be in BIG trouble. Therefore I am posting this picture that is half-fail and half-not-fail.
It’s a fail only because I wasn’t taking it very seriously. I have the crappy scissors and didn’t want to wait the rotary cutter to practice. So I just cut a piece of fabric from old pants with no real guide and not so straight, in fact it didn’t turn out perfectly square. But I didn’t care, I figured I’d be tearing it apart when I screwed up the zipper. And aha! I can, in fact, sew a zipper without making a mess of it, I think. It’s not ironed because I didn’t care and figured I’d be tearing it all apart 1,000 times, so it sticks up here and there and looks even less straight than actually is — oddly enough, while the fabric is a mess, the stitching is almost perfectly straight which is amazing for me, considering… It’s actually not puckered up, etc, just needs a good ironing and I’m lazy and need to re-stitch one of the corners first, if I care that much, I didn’t even care enough to use matching thread after all. But I sewed a zipper pretty darn well, on my first try of putting one IN something (I’d tried just sewing it to fabric but not actually hooking it all together before). Ha!
Zipper test
You did pretty darn good for a first try! We’ll never sell Brian on me needing to come down to teach you to sew if you keep this up