Broken the zip in your favorite jeans?  If the jeans are hipsters, then you will have to cut a jean zip down in size.  The best way to do this is to use bias binding or fabric.  Determine the length you want the zip to be.  Cut a piece of fabric about 1 1/2″ or […]

Putting in a zipper can be easy if there is no pattern or sections to line up.  But sometimes you will come across a garment which needs to have both sides lined up because it has a certain pattern to the fabric, or you have a waist or yoke to line up on both sides.
I […]

Sometimes the slider on a jacket zipper can come off.  Usually this happens because the manufacturer has cut down the zip from the top section, which means that the zipper section at the top is folded into the fabric.  There will not be a plastic or metal tab at the top.
With nothing at the top to […]

There are a number of things you can do to prevent your jean zipper breaking.
 1.  When washing the jeans, do the zipper up.
2.  Make sure that you do the button up above the zipper
When you are washing your jeans, if you leave the zipper open then as the clothes agitate in the washing machine, the […]

Ok, to fix the bottom of an invisible heres the 10 step process:
Step 1 - Put your zipper foot on your machine. If the zipper foot is adjustable, have the foot on the right hand side.
Step 2 - Move the needle across so that it is as close as possible to the zipper foot, without […]