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How to Cover Cording to Create Your Own Piping

By Debbie Colgrove, About.com

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Ending Continuous Piping

A photo showing two methods of ending piping.

Two methods of ending piping

Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to About.com
Continuous piping is piping that does not end, as in the edge of a pillow or a cushion cover. There are two methods which are equally acceptable.

Heavy Piping

  • Sew the piping to the item stopping about a half inch before where you started.
  • Trim the piping allowing enough fabric to turn under and enclose the beginning of the piping.
  • Trim the ends of the cording so that they but up to each other.
  • Fold under the fabric to enclose the beginning of the piping and sew in place.
Narrow Piping
  • Sew the beginning of the piping with the end of the piping dipping into the seam allowance.
  • Continue to sew joining the piping to the fabric.
  • As you approach the starting point, place the ending of the piping over the starting point and dip it into the seam allowance. Allow for a continuous visual line of piping on the outside of the seam allowance.

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