Any advice for how to sew in a quick and dirty centred zip?
I'm half way through a batch of garment bags and the long zips are a pain. I've been machine tacking the seam closed, pinning the zip over and topstitching from the wrong side, then ripping the tacking open.
My problems are:
- the longest stitch on my machine is still pretty small, it's really tricky to get all the threads out once the back of the stitching is enclosed, and seems to take ages.
- The stitching sometimes 'runs off' so it's not straight on the front, which is fine, but on a couple of occasions it actually ran to the wrong side of the seam so I had to unpick.
Any suggestions? Should I tack and press the seam and unpick before pinning the zip in? Stitch from the right side? I don't really want to hand tack!
It doesn't need to look especially neat and pretty, it just needs to work.