#needleworkmonday :: A not-so-successful zipper fix


Hello!! It is Monday again! Happy #NeedleWorkMonday lovely NeedleWork Artists!


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Last week, I had the "pleasure" of fixing a zipper of the ankle part of a pair of track pants. It is one of my hub's favourites. He needed to use it in 4 hours and I thought it can't be that hard, right? wrong 😳...

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The problem was that the zipper head came off. I tried to insert it back into the zipper but to my horror, it broke apart 😱

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I thought, oh well, let the pants continue to be zipper-less until my smart self decided to take a look at the stitches. I probably should have tried to insert another zipper head but my fingers and eyes couldn't coordinate well enough to insert it properly.

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The stitches looked fairly straightforward and so I drafted a plan, take out the stitches and sew a new one! I rummaged through my zipper stash and dang, I do not have a black one. The closest I could find was a brown zipper which I salvaged from a rotting PVC bag:

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Okay, brown is pretty close to black right, shouldn't be that bad. I started picking out the stitches with my faithful stitch picker or seam ripper:

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Then, as carefully as I could, pinned the brown zipper to the pants:

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And, off to the sewing machine. I changed the foot to a zipper foot and confidently started sewing, just like how I watched some of the Youtubers did:

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When I reached the bottom of the pants, I cut the excess and tucked the zipper in carefully and sewed it on:

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Once I was done, I was so excited to zip it on:

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Until I realized, one side was longer than the other! 😱 😲 😳

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There wasn't any time left to re-fix it and so I had to pass the pants back to my hubby.

He was really sweet and didn't mind the brown and uneven zipper. He was happy that there is a functional zipper now and that the pants won't be flapping around his ankles.
Maybe I will re-fix it later if my mood to fix zippers comes back 😁

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