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[camwyn]

Working on my first commercial pattern sewing project. I bought a pattern for men's cargo shorts/pants and some cotton twill a while ago, and finally got off my ass to start the project this weekend.

So far I have learned:

- how to overlock the edges despite not having a serger (there was a lovely video on Youtube by a lady in North Dakota demonstrating how to do it with a Singer 4411)

- how to baste a seam using a sewing machine instead of doing it by hand (same lady's videos, summed up as: maximum stitch length and super loose thread tension make it easy to pull the stitches out when you're done, so that's machine basting)

- how to change the presser feet on a snap-on machine

- how to sew in a zipper

- how to use a seam ripper a whole lot because I wasn't paying attention and sewed the zipper in wrong way around

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[erisiansaint]

I never thought of a YouTube video to learn to put in zippers. (I bought a lot of gorgeous shirts online, on sale. Most of them would be vastly improved by zippers.)

[camwyn]

I ran a Startpage search on 'zipper foot singer 4411' to make sure I had the right instructions on how to install and use a zipper presser foot (I have the English pages of my machine's manual printed up but didn't feel like looking for them). I got a youtube vid from an account I think was called SewingMachineMastery. Worked out pretty well except for, like I said, my own inadvertent misplacement of the zipper.