- Set up your sewing machine with your zipper foot.
- Place the cording in the center of the bias strip.
- Wrap the bias strip around the cording matching the edges.
- Align the zipper foot so the edge of it is against the cording. Sew the seam allowances together to enclose the cording.
- Allow the machine to feed the fabric under the needle so that you maintain a true bias grain around the cording.
How to Cover Cording to Create Your Own Piping
By Debbie Colgrove, About.com Guide
Covering the Cording
Covering the cording with fabric.
Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to About.comPrev
- Measure the Cording
- Cut Bias Strips
- Join the Bias Strips
- Covering the Cording
- Sew the Piping to the Item
- Ending Continuous Piping
- Ending Piping in a Seam Allowance
- Enclosing Piping in a Seam
- Tips and Tricks
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