Okay we’re going to this very easy right?
So a welt cord is really easy thing to do. You’re just wrapping, crop it around your ball cord, and through it, you can go out and go to a fabric store and buy some decorative cording. And that maybe what you need. For sometimes, for your design choices, you may need to have to wrap that welt cord with your fabric. It’s also a lot more cost effective too. So, that was very easy I have.
Now we’ll show you how to actually use this on a project. The most common welt cord to use is the 0:44 and we will have a half inch skim with the row edge here. And this have a welt cord you’re going to sew in between two layers of fabric to end up. This will basically trim the same. So, instead of four samples so in two squares of fabric together for pillow case you could add this along with it, when so it goes two pieces of it together and you’ll have a nice trim along the edge. So I'm going to show you how to add this welt cord choosing. And you can decide what thing that is for your next project. Let’s go inside!
Lay two fabric panels right side together, wrong sides out aligning the side edge that you’re going to sew together. Pull back the top panel, and you’re going to take your welt cord and lay it on top of this bottom piece here aligning the raw edges with the raw edge of this panel. So the welt cord is actually laid on top of your fabric. Then you’re going to lay your top fabric back over, and you’re going to align the raw edges here. Put them on their place. This should spill very similar to how you will fold in the fabric over the first time over the welt cord. And you work your way down your welt edges, and pin to hold this in place. Ill do it one more time over here.
Then I want you to have your panels pinned together with the welt cord in between just like that. See how it’s already looking at the welt cord attached even though it’s not yet. And then you’re going to sew the same way you sewed the welt cord, the first time with the zipper flat. And the zipper foot is important because again, you’re going to have that needle come as close as possible to the welt cord that actually sew it on to both cord. And this will give you a nice clean look on the outside of this fabric. So I'm going to take this to my machine with my zipper foot, and so the straight stitch which should be about a half inch skim along the edge of this welt cord here. And I've known soon my welt cord in between the skim. If I lay it flat, you can see how it’s sewn in there. This is just two scrap this fabric but you can imagine what have it look like for example of these were pillow case. And the edge of the pillow would now come along the edge here. I’ll going to be making a cover for your chair and this is the trim around that or box in cushion or something like that. Even if you’re doing something decorative in your window treatments may have to skim. Sometimes, you see welt cording come and down vertically seem it up of the good in treatment. I've seen this done many times in London shades for example or o the outside the box pleats.
Whatever your reason is for tuning us, maybe it’s in the bottom tune of the flat valence or the top trim of balance. Whatever it is, it’s very simple and you know, one of you sew that needle close the ball cord. You can have a really nice look here, so that’s one way.
Now I'm going to show you how to use your type of welt cord. Okay, so now, we have this welt cord that’s covered with no roll edges. That’s really handy for applications like sometimes you might see grammar curtains and they’re hang with rope, something like that, 4:57 where you were with thread at through and hang it at entices. Maybe it uses there a welt cord, and then what I have in front of me. Maybe you’re doing something where you want to make a decorative where you tie some sort of crayon bow, and then tack it to your treatments.
Sometimes, if we don’t like using the welt cord, that’s going to half inch raw o seen. This is what they prefer to work with. Now, nevertheless, what are we going to use it for? It is not as easy to attach it to a project. One of the ways you could attach to your project is just to use strong fiber glue, and glue it to your project.
So, maybe it’s going to cross your pillow in the front. You can use fiber glue, or you can add. If it really causes the dust board, you can also glue at the top of the board. You’ll never go to know it’s glued. Let’s go at across the top edge. If you don’t like that, then the next best thing is the way down on your fabric, and you use it on your own threat and to carefully tack this welt cord to your home décor project.
Now, you can see this is one of my least favorite versions of this because this is far more time consuming. But for whatever your reason is, that’s going to be a good reason. Whenever there’s a project with the welt cord, it’s going to be exposed and 6:17 into a scene; this might be the choice for you.
Once we touch it, it doesn’t require a little bit more working some patience, and you don’t thread, you would lay this welt cord down o your fabric with the same facing down, so you don’t see it.
And then you’ll be taking your own thread and then just tack this to your fabric right underneath the welt cord. You’ll never go and see it stitching but it will secure it here.
Okay. You could also again use glue to glue it and press it down, whatever makes the most sense for your project.
Now, no matter what, if you’re skim is going to be exposed meaning that you’re using this for some sort of project that this welt cords out in the open and it’s not when you’ll be secure and necessary to fabric, and you’re going to see this.
On how you recommend then that you 7:11 look at your scene, and make sure that at the call do it you want it to it because if your using that double stick tape, it does a really nice job of creating this real quick, but at the same time, it’s inconsistent and you’ve got some gaps and then it’s going on with your scene so I would take a nylon thread and just weep stitch this the same a little closer tighter and neater.
If you’re not going to see this, or this is not a big deal, don’t worry about it. But this is something as move as our professional project I would take it on threatens and I weep stitch that scene a millimeter. And I would also do up to the end as well. The sticky tape ca only do so much and you’re going to web stitch this openings shot. Okay?
Again, though if it’s going to be faced down like this, we’ll never going to see all those beauty consistencies and so it’s not a big deal, so it really has to do with what your project calls for.
If its fine for you, do it, move on and get you project done, right? If you like me, sometimes I get so calm in the details, details that no one else is ever going to see but me. Even though I told you to worry about that at the same time, weigh your time, weigh your patience and this is really the importance of this particular element on your project. Okay?
So that’s m tip to you on this one, and I think that’s really about it. So you’ve got both your welt cord perhaps that raw edge that you can sew it in a scene and then you also have one that’s complete.
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